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Holler, Anne.

Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOL

Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HEL

Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HEL

Jans, Nick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.784 JAN

Teffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna)

Summary: In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEFFI, N.A TEF

Robertson, Jase

Summary: The "funnyman" of the Robertson family recalls his life and discusses his thoughts on family, faith, nature, and work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTSON, JASE ROB

Rodriguez, Janel

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 ROD

Jans, Nick

Summary: "The unlikely true story of a six-year friendship between a wild, oddly gentle black wolf and the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636 JAN

Jans, Nick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.86 JAN

Wenner, Jann

Summary: "Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 WEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WENNER, JANN S. WEN

Gebler, Carlo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.291 GEB

Jans, Nick

Summary: "No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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Kobler, John.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 KOB

Monroe, Jana

Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MON

Harris, Jana

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: In Horses Never Lie about Love, Harris Lyrically recounts how this wounded, implacable beast nevertheless held a magical influence over the other horses of the ranch, and how she eased into the role of mother after having a foal. In time she became the heart of the ranch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 HSR

Franz, Dale Clarke

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 FRA

Hameister, Jade

Summary: Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019

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

Gabler, Neal

Summary: "From the author of Catching the Wind, called "one of the truly great biographies of our time," comes the second volume of the epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-in which America's tectonic shift toward conservatism leaves Kennedy the lone powerful voice in the fight to advance protection for the poor and working-class. In Against the Wind, Ted Kennedy enters 1975 no longer in his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD GAB

Gabler, Neal

Summary: "The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD M. GAB

Hoobler, Dorothy.

Summary: "The Monsters tells the story of the real-life characters surrounding the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Drawing on private diaries, personal letters, and contemporary accounts, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a spectacular narrative of artistic creation and personal destruction. They reveal not just the true origins of two of the most famous monsters in popular culture, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 HOO

Hoobler, Dorothy

Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 ARE

Harris, Jana

Summary: Recounts the author's twenty-four-year relationship with a beautiful feral mare who in spite of a troubled past has conveyed help and healing to all humans and horses she has encountered.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HARI

Wenner, Jann

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and Rolling Stone founder comes "a visit to the Mount Olympus of rock" in this remarkable collection of new and collected interviews with the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time (Kirkus Reviews). During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 WEN

Wenner, Jann.

Summary: Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing. Now, two of his colleagues have interviewed the Good Doctor's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S SEY

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