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Cabinet officers Cuban Americans Biography Employees New York (N.Y.). Police Department Officials and employees Biography Police New York (State) New York Biography Politics and government United States United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1869 Women cabinet officersFire, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 DEERFife, Graeme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.01 FIFLame Deer, Archie Fire
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 LAMDeArment, Robert K.
Summary: After describing Masterson the Western hero, DeArment continues the story of Masterson's later life as a fight promoter and a New York newspaperman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASFine, Doug.
Summary: Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 FINFine, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan 1968
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 940.483 FINKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUStahr, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaEire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 EIRFinet, Nicolas
Summary: A biography in comics of rock singer Janis Joplin, featuring highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. There, she abandons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOPLIN, JANIS FINFair, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem FairFies, Brian
Summary: "Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 FIEDirie, Waris.
Summary: Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie recounts her life, from her roots as a desert nomad in Somalia, her escape from an arranged marriage, her modeling career, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virago 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.152 DIRIE, WARIS DIRFiges, Orlando
Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGFarr, Sheila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grover/Thurston Gallery and Laura Russo Gallery in association with University of Washington Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 FARFiges, Eva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granta 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FIGES, EVA FIGAlexander, Heather
Summary: Introduces the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state while describing how she became a role model for women as a lawyer, a staunch supporter of important political and social causes, and the first woman to run as the Democratic candidate forpresident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Summary: "President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHRISTOPHER C. MILFine, Aubrey H.
Contents: Discoveries -- My life on the "ranch": just follow the yellow brick road home -- Giving from the Hart: becoming a comforter and a human builder -- Fending off loneliness -- Do you believe in magic? -- Giving and accepting a second chance -- Writing from the Hart: becoming a Cyrano de Bergerac -- One of life's lessons: carpe diem -- Remembering lifetimes -- Serendipity can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 FINEyre, Makana
Summary: Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, this powerful story recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz after an unlikely friendship with a Jewish conductor in Sachsenhausen who tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KULISIEWICZ, ALEKSANDER TYTUS EYRFine, Karen R.
Summary: "All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian in a field historically dominated by men, and how, through her work both with her patients and their people, she comes to better understand humanity, mortality, and the unique role animals play in our lives. Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 FINCampisi, Charles
Summary: From 1996 through 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. When he retired, only one man on the 36,000-member force had served longer. During Campisi's IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 CAMRaymond, Edwin
Summary: "From the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the NYPD, a political memoir that exposes the brokenness of policing from both outside and inside the system During the workday, Edwin Raymond is on the beat as a ranked lieutenant in the New York Police Department. When the uniform comes off, he takes on a very different role: the lead plaintiff in the largest-ever civil rights lawsuit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAYMOND, EDWIN RAYSquarzoni, Philippe
Summary: Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2023