Wolf, Naomi
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.009 WOLGigliotti, Jim
Summary: Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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Summary: " "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 FLEBreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRELewis, Sian Anna
Summary: These unforgettable locations in Britain’s wild corners range from lighthouses to cottages, from bothies to boats. Although they’re the stuff of dreams, they’re affordable and reachable in reality, and the book gives you invaluable information about the surrounding area, including walks and wildlife. The book is beautifully photographed throughout and even just reading it is an escape in itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2023
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Summary: During the 229-year period 1485-1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into "the first modern society," emerging as the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. The English people survived epidemics, famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 HISWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIZaidi, Mohsin
Summary: A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAIDI, MOHSIN ZAITurner, Pamela S.
Summary: "Once upon a time there lived a girl who swept floors and washed dishes, and was little more than a servant to her family. Until, one day, an invitation arrived. It was an invitation to a new country and a new beginning--a place where Caroline's dreams, her fascination with the night sky, and her extraordinary talent would open up a world of beauty and renown, and make her the belle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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Summary: "Harry Potter and Sense and Sensibility actor Alan Rickman builds upon his legacy as a world-class actor, a tireless political activist, an avid traveler, and more through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project in which Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Alan Rickman remains the one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre in the American and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERSummary: Follows Michael Wood as he travels in search of the truth behind four famous legends. Explores not only the historical past and literal truth of these myths, but also the mythic past and archetypal stories behind them. Examines the Biblical myth of the Queen of Sheba, an exotic and mysterious woman of power who, with King Solomon, plays a key role in the founding myths of the modern states of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSCarby, Hazel V.
Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 CARMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCMuir, Robin
Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUIBrandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE BRAWilliams, J. T.
Summary: Presents the extraordinary life stories of fourteen Black British people and their contributions to the worlds of literature, theater, journalism, politics, medicine, sport, and music.Carefully researched and eloquently written by children’s author J.T. Williams, Bright Stars of Black British History brings to life historical figures from Tudor England to the present day. Written in both an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILScobie, Omid
Summary: "On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II's passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world's most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British monarchy begin to resurface. Now, with unique insight, deep access, and exclusive revelations, journalist Omid Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.086 SCOStone, Tanya Lee
Summary: "An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024