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Coates, Ta-Nehisi Daugherty, H. M. (Harry Micajah) 1860-1941 Midwives England London Biography Politics and government Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Biography United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1869 Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall) 1882-1975Semenya, Caster
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SENESH, HANNAH MASCoster, Theo.
Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE COSMasters, Alexander.
Summary: Tells the story of an unlikely friendship that develops between the author, a writer and illustrator, and Stuart Shorter, a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHORTER, STUART MASStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "An unorthodox investigative literary biography of a mysterious graphomaniac whose nearly 150 diaries are rescued from a dumpster by the author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 MASMasters, Nathan
Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MASMasters, Oksana
Summary: The United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-countryskiing, and road cycling competitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COACoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 COACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B COATES COACoates, Laura Gayle
Summary: "A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, LAURA COACoates, Ta-Nehisi.
Summary: Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons through inner-city adolescence--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, TANEHISI COAWright, Wilbur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WRIKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KERTuohy, Andy.
Summary: A fun introduction to the world of modern artists, from Albers to Zox, via Basquiat, Kahlo, Warhol and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell Illustrated 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 TUOWorth, Jennifer
Summary: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (not included here, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (this book, c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco/HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WORWorth, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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Summary: "Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Tiger Woods' historic win at the 1997 Masters, an account of the pro golfer's historic career shares previously unknown stories and the ways his record-setting win changed both the sport and his life on and off the course,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017