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Brox family Brox, Jane 1956- Family Christian biography Families Family farms Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) Farm life Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) Home schooling Idaho Anecdotes Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) Biography Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe) 1922-2000 United StatesBroom, Sarah M.
Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOM, SARAH M. BROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BroomLerner, Gerda
Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LERLemelman, Martin
Summary: "The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists. Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people fought against their Roman rulers. The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees. Centuries passed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 LEMSummary: The definitive documentary of Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo artist of all time, offers an intimate look at Brooks' music and his life as a musician, father, and man. Fans will be delighted with seminal hit songs and the unforgettable moments that have defined his decade-spanning career. Featuring revealing interviews with Trisha Yearwood, Billy Joel, Keith Urban, George Strait, James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GARStroh, Frances
Summary: Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters, and a house filled with precious antiques. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself. But behind the beautiful facade lay a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 STROH, FRANCES STRBrown, Daniel James
Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Summary: Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAFRAN, JOSHUA SAFTaber, Sara Mansfield.
Contents: Preface -- pt. 1. The Sea -- book 1: Dragons (Taipei, Taiwan, 1961-1962) -- The Wall -- The Chicken Village -- Whispers -- Night Soil -- book 2: Gum (Bethesda, Maryland, 1962-1964) -- Cross my Heart -- Jap -- The Tomb -- American -- book 3: Rainlight (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1964-1968) -- Klompen -- Dutchies -- My Father's Bath -- The Pistol -- Nicole -- Home -- pt. 2. The Shore -- book 4:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TABER, SARA MANSFIELD TABBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRIERLEY BRIBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRISummary: Peanuts, Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip, has given the world a cast of characters for the ages--Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Lucy among them. Here, in an unprecedented collection of thirty-two essays, artists and writers ranging from Ann Patchett to Chris Ware consider the deeper truths of Peanuts, its influence on their lives and on the culture more broadly, and the lessons it can teach us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5973 PEAFisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)
Summary: William Fisher (ca. 1795-1823) arrived in America during the War of 1812 and did not return to England. He and Betsy Burnett were married in Salem, Massachusetts and their first son, John Edward Fisher was born in 1818. Their son, David, emigrated to Canada. Other descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [E.L. Fisher] 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER FisherSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: In the Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980 Snoopy launches his beagle scout treks. Valentine's day sparks an unlikely romance, and Lucy promises she will finally let Charlie Brown kick the football!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagrphics Books 2021
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Summary: For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. We know surprisingly little about the vast network of Nazi labor camps, where imprisoned Jews built railroads and highways, churned out munitions and materiel, and otherwise supported the limitless needs of the Nazi war machine. This book gives us an insider's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KIRCooper, Anderson
Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ASTOR COOWestover, Tara
Summary: The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then to Cambridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 WESSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREBrox, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.272 BROBrox, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 BROValentine, Sarah
Summary: "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALENTINE, SARAH VALSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's timeless masterpiece of comic art presenting, for the very first time, every strip from 1950 to 2000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2011
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Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESJorgensen, Liisa
Summary: Far Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut--an instrumental part of the Apollo space program--but the other was just as much a warrior. This real-life love story is far from a fairy tale. Life as a military wife was beyond demanding, but Susan always rose to the occasion. When Frank joined NASA and was selected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JORTrethewey, Rachel
Summary: "As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021