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Abolitionists United States Biography African American abolitionists Biography Antislavery movements United States History 19th century Bears Hibernation Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Hibernation Slaves United States Biography Slaves United States Social conditions 19th century Speeches, addresses, etc., American United StatesSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FREDouglass, Frederick
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent spokesman for his people.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUDouglass, Merrill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUTougias, Mike
Summary: In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. While the storm raged on the freezing Atlantic, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same predicament. Not built to withstand those seas, both tankers split in two. This is the gripping, true story of the Coast Guard's valiant attempt to rescue the dozens of men left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.9163 TOUBronski, Michael.
Summary: "Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BROBrodsky, Joseph
Summary: Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 BRODouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 DouWronsky, Gail
Summary: This book collects over four decades of work by this unique and imaginative poet. Wronsky's poems, informed by her reading of classical texts as well as contemporary poetics, explore feminism, environmentalism, and mortality in language that is both multi-layered and musical. At times dark and at times humorous, her poems speak to our strengths as well as our frailties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WROVronsky, Peter
Summary: "Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 VRODouglass, Frederick
Summary: The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass was an immense, motivational figure. His early life, filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy, adds up to a heart-wrenching history. However, he was able to overcome everything that bound a slave to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Presents the autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the north after twenty-one years of enslavement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUDouglass, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Fantasy 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUAlinsky, Shelby
Summary: A bear awakens from hibernation at the end of winter to eat different things during the spring and summer, only to return to sleep at the end of autumn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE ALIBrodsky, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.1 BROBronski, Kelli
Summary: "Tried-and-tested gluten-free recipes for more than sixty pizza creations made from fifteen kinds of dough-from American pie to the Italian originals (Roman, Sicilian, Neapolitan) with toppings that novice and seasoned chefs alike will find inventive andexciting"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 550 DixonLansky, Bruce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meadowbrook Press 1982
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Summary: Here at last is the delectable and doable gluten-free cooking so many people with celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or wheat allergy have been looking for Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking is based on authors Kelli and Peter Bronski's cooking philosophy that follows four simple rules: the food should be fresh, the recipes should be simple, the meals should be made from scratch, and the food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2009
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Summary: "A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012