Stiefel, Chana
Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STIRipp, Victor
Summary: "An unsentimental meditation on memory and loss that recounts the author's search for a Holocaust memorial that speaks to the death of his young cousin In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin. Two months later, Alexandre was killed in Auschwitz. To try to make sense of this act, Ripp looks at it through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RIPLentz, Timothy Paul
Summary: In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly fifty-five year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. The Impresario and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside, and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future and a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Wayne State University Press] 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.1 LENHass, Kristin Ann
Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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Summary: "The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Summary: A world-renowned art forger who has been duping the art world for forty-five years and served time after a widely-publicized trial, describes the secrets and corruption of that universe while giving an art history lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TETRO TETGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGREBenoit, Peter
Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENAronson, Marc
Summary: Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Facism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 770 AROKrimstein, Ken
Summary: "One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KRIRoyal, Sarah
Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROYO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one body to be interred, solemnly united. Brilliantly researched, vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War O'DonnellHalprin, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 HALHarvey, Jeanne Walker
Summary: "The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINFraser, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.84 FRAShapiro, James S.
Summary: An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHAErvick, Kelcey
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl's life and changed women's history forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 ERVICK, KELCEY ERVLewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWMcKenzie, Emilia
Summary: "Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the years--until Charlotte died in 2018 following a long struggle with depression. Now, Emilia assembles her memories into a graphic memoir reflecting on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 MCKTakalo, Tiitu
Summary: "In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, the days and nights spent in an intensive care unit, and the long, painful recovery that led the artist to reflect on her life both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TAKALO, TIITU TAKTheroux, Anne
Summary: "This memoir is based on the diary I kept during 1990, the year that my first marriage came to an end.' After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children - Louis and Marcel - in 1990 Anne and Paul Theroux decided to separate. For that year, Anne - later a professional relationship therapist herself - kept a diary, noting not only her day-to day experiences as a busy freelance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THEROUX, ANNE THEHahn, Laura.
Summary: Discusses the history and sculpting of the images on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, and provides facts about the four presidents represented there: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 978.3 HAHKirk, Jay.
Summary: An account of the life of the famed explorer and taxidermist assesses his influence on American views about natural-world conservation, covering his dangerous pursuits of wildlife for his dioramas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 KIRRoss, Steve
Summary: A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018