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African American abolitionists African Americans Biography Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750 Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Forsyth, Frederick 1938- Friedman, Elizebeth 1892-1980 Friedman, William F. (William Frederick) 1891-1969 Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759 United StatesSummary: From environmental pollution to their efforts to dismantle social security for working Americans, the Koch Brothers have launched a large network, attacking our American values. Join Senator Bernie Sanders, Van Jones and Katrina vanden Heuvel in this shocking and dramatic investigation of how the Billionaire Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on covert attacks that destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KOCSummary: Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NOWSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Kohn, Howard.
Summary: A memoir of reconciliation between a man and his father as the son comes to terms with his father's farm in Saginaw Valley, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.447 KOHKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KERBaraga, Frederic
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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Summary: "Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader's popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.07 MALGaines, James R.
Summary: "Tells the story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005
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Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK STAVogt, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iberian Pub. Co. 1987
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 VOGGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: "The revised Selected Verse, which incorporates changes made to Lorca's Collected Poems, is the most complete paperback anthology of his work available in English, and is an essential addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf. In this bilingual edition, Lorca's poetic range comes clearly into view, from the playful Suites and stylized evocations of Andalusia to the utter gravity and mystery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARMurphy, Frank
Summary: "A biography of Frederick Douglass covering his origins as slave and journey to becoming an abolitionist leader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MURPagel-Hogan, Elizabeth
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIDunbar, Willis Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.413 DUNStevens, Bryna.
Summary: Relates how a determined aunt and a boy who swallowed a knife made it possible for young George Frederic Handel to study music despite his father's strong objections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HANDEL STEKnausgsård, Karl Ove
Summary: "Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 896 KNACline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "The story of Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden Pond is contrasted with businessman Frederic Tudor's scheme to cut 180 tons of ice from Walden Pond and transport it to India"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Book Club 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREBolden, Tonya
Summary: Chronicles the life of the abolitionist and his many roles, from former slave and orator to newspaperman, women's rights activist, diplomat, and memoirist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOUForsyth, Frederick
Summary: "From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORSYTH, FREDERICK FORKavanagh, Julie
Summary: "One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon's blades. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 KAVNorris, J. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NORGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998