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Urofsky, Melvin I.

Summary: From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable" --Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ("Riveting"--Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.13 URO

Margolin, Jamie

Summary: "The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: GO, Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320.0835 MAR

Dilts, Bryan Lee

Summary: Index for genealogists, historians, demographers, and other researchers who wish to quickly determine where specific individuals are located on the available portions of the 1848 and 1850 censuses of Canada West (approximately the same in boundaries as modern Ontario).

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Publisher / Publication Date: Index Pub. 1984

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 CEN 1848 1850

Tobin, Jacqueline

Summary: The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And Canada became the Promised Land where they could live...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 TOB

Raatma, Lucia.

Summary: Introduces readers to the Polish language, with information about where it is spoken, who speaks it, and what alphabet it uses, as well as lessons of basic Polish phrases.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J POLISH 491.858 RAA

Kerbel, Deborah

Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KER

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

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Williams, Juan

Summary: "What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from anything the original Founders could have imagined in the late 1700s. The notion of an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WIL

Waxman, Laura Hamilton

Summary: Chronicles the life and career of Juan Ponce de Léon, tracing his travels in the Carribbean and his discoveries of Florida and Puerto Rico.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 WAX

Brown, Vanessa

Summary: "Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster -- or monsters -- stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn't stop...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BRO

Keffer, Marion C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1976

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 KEF

Miller, Sarah

Summary: "When they were born on May 28, 1934, quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie captivated the world, defying medical history with every breath they took. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the quints, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family. Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 MIL

Brazer, Marjorie Cahn.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peach Mountain Press 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.13 BRA

Reaman, George Elmore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1993

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 971.3 REA

Mullins, Matt.

Summary: Photographs and text introduce scientific concepts related to friction, explaining what friction is and what it affects, describing how people have used friction throughout human history, and providing additional facts, statistics, and a time line.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.1134 MUL

Pitts, Rebecca

Summary: "Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 JAC

Aitken, Barbara B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1984

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3713 AI

Bennet, Doug.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reed Books Canada 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7131 BEN

Summary: Since its inception in 1893, Algonquin Park has meant many things to many people: to hundreds of thousands of people, in fact. But it is not easy for one writer either to explain the almost magical attraction that Algonquin has exerted on so many or to capture the spontaneous quality of this attraction. Instead, let us look at the personal impressions of thirty-two writers who, between 1824 and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Friends of Algonquin Park 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971 gli

Cuthbert, Megan

Summary: Describes the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports, and cultural groups that make Ontario unique.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014

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Franklin, Ruth.

Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRA

Chacaby, Ma-Nee

Summary: A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: UMP, University of Manitoba Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHACABY, MA-NEE CHA

Archives of Ontario

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture 1994

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Wides-Muñoz, Laura

Summary: "A timely and powerful chronicle of a generation's great civil rights battle as witnessed through the experiences of five young undocumented immigrants fighting to become Americans. We often call them DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children. They attend our local schools; work jobs that contribute to our economy. Some apply to attend university here,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7 WID

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 WID

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