Ebert, Lily
Summary: A ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor--and TikTok sensation thanks to her great-grandson--relays the details of her harrowing experiences at Auschwitz and how, after losing so much, she was able to build a new life for her family and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBERT, LILY EBEBorman, Tracy
Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BORBorman, Frank
Summary: An autobiography by the former astronaut who flew Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions, and later served as a diplomat and then president of Eastern Airlines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 BORParkman, Francis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 973.24 PARParkman, Francis
Summary: Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and a sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1943
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 PARPoelman, Heidi
Summary: Profiles eight individuals who fought for freedom, including Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi, and Malala Yousafzai.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius LLC 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WORBorman, Tracy.
Summary: Chronicles the achievements of Matilda of Flanders, the ruthless wife of William the Conqueror, who eschewed the traditional views of women in medieval society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATILDA, QUEEN BORBorman, Tracy
Summary: "Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne: "shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue's gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs," as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.0099 BORSprow, Harry Pohlman
Summary: In addition to listing families married into Sprau family 1651-2007, the book includes brief but more detailed synopses of Gummo, Haass, Leusenrink, Niemeyer, Pohlmann, Schneider, Walliser and Burgderfer families, plus a brief German history and related facts concerning the Rheinland-Pflalz region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gateway Press 2007
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 SPRAU SprowAmiry, Suad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 AMIForeman, Michael
Summary: English artist and children's book illustrator Michael Foreman looks back on his own wartime childhood in the village of Pakefield on the Suffolk coast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORBordman, Gerald Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 792 BORShlaes, Amity.
Summary: A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOLIDGE, CALVIN SHACottman, Michael H.
Summary: "This narrative follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African-American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARForeman, Amanda
Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEOForeman, Amanda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DEVForman, Vicki.
Summary: Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go" -- she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 FORStrong, Cecily
Summary: "Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP B STRONG STRParkman, Mary Rosetta
Contents: Mary Lyon.--Alice Freeman Palmer.--Clara Barton.--Frances Willard.--Julia Ward Howe.--Anna Shaw.--Mary Antin.--Alice C. Fletcher.--Mary Slessor of Calabar.--Madame Curie.--Jane Addams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books for Libraries Press 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.073 PARMcMillan, Cecily
Summary: "Where does a radical spirit come from? The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is the intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young millennial, chronicling her journey from her trailer park home in Southeast Texas, where her loving family was broken up by poverty and mental health issues, her emancipation from her parents as a teenager and her escape to the home of one of her teachers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMILLAN, CECILY MCMSchindler, Emilie
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SCHForman, Gayle.
Summary: Freelance reporter Gayle Forman recounts the experiences she had while traveling to some of the most remote places in the world with her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 FORKrogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022