Kim, Carol
Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANNKerbel, 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 KERHaining, Peter.
Summary: Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 TODD, SWEENEY HAILansing, Alfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 LANBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANLanning, Michael Lee
Summary: "Michael Lee Lanning tells the story of the courageous airmen who evaded capture and escaped to safety after being shot from the skies during World War II. Lanning covers the hows and whys of escape-and-evasion and aerial combat in the European theater, but also vividly captures the stories of the airmen who did the escaping and evading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LANLee, Jid
Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 LEETolentino, Jia
Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLHof, Wim
Summary: "The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful method for realizing our physical and spiritual potential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020
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Summary: In January 2014 Hening Mankell was informed that he had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. He writes about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKELL, HENNING MANMarable, Manning
Summary: An authoritative biography of Malcolm X draws on new research to trace his life from his troubled youth through his involvement in the Nation of Islam, his activism in the world of Black Nationalism, and his assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin Group 2011
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Summary: While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANNING, CHELSEA MANHenning, Barbara
Summary: "Ferne is a time capsule of mid-century Detroit, a city poised to explode. Its sounds, scents, and sights spill forth, as vividly experienced by a vibrant young woman whose life would end too soon. Ferne joyously curates her own life; that's the heart of this book. But we also encounter her through the fervent eyes of her daughter, poet and novelist Barbara Henning, who lyrically fills in and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2022
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South HenningSjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim
Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJOHendrix, Jimi
Summary: Weaves together the rock artist's own words from interviews, lyrics, and scraps of miscellaneous writings to form a continuous narrative of Hendrix's life from birth to his final four years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDRIX, JIMI HENBrown, Austin Channing
Summary: The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, AUSTIN CHANNING BROWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMER WEAYang, Kelly
Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANPearl Jam (Musical group)
Summary: Published to commemorate the influential band's twentieth anniversary, an illustrated portrait covers their achievements while sharing reproductions of rare archival memorabilia, personal photos, and tour notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 PEARL JAM PEAMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MULSmith, Charles R.
Summary: "The story of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's career told in verse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021