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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 Great Britain Foreign relations United States Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Sir Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Military leadership Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 United States United States Foreign relations Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic historyMiller, Francis Trevelyan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MILSummary: A Saint Petersburg official wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and has assumed a life of its own, pretending to be human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VAI 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA NOSRasula, Jed
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 RASKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUSummary: 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 2010Steil, Benn
Summary: "From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 STELowe, Lindsey
Summary: "Ulysses S. Grant was the general of the Union army who led the North to victory in the Civil War. But at one time, he wasn't thought to be fit to serve in the military at all! Robert E. Lee has a similarly confounding story: he was asked to command the Union army! This book offers a look at the two looming personalities that fought each other for the future of a nation. Biographical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 LOWFaber, Don
Contents: The Battle of Phillips Corners -- Roots of the dispute I : the Northwest Ordinance -- Roots of the dispute II : Ohio statehood -- Prelude to war, 1815-30 -- Path to statehood -- A war of words opens the curtain -- Acts of provocation -- Events of April-June 1835 -- Bloodshed in Toledo -- The case for Ohio -- The case for Michigan -- Governor Mason is fired -- Statehood in the balance --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.103 FABMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin'sbullet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MillardWoolf, 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 WOOGordon, Lyndall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 ELIJohnson, Clint
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JOHVaron, Elizabeth R.
Summary: "Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind-it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.738 VARHett, Benjamin Carter
Summary: "Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HETMeltzer, Brad
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 MELWood, Douglas
Summary: At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5322 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J940.53 WOOWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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Summary: A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 CONGray, Charlotte
Summary: "The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRAKelly, John
Summary: "In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had starved four million Ukrainians to death in the early 1930s, another million in the purges of the late 1930s, and a further million in the labor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KELMartin, George Whitney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 MARMeacham, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 MEAMeacham, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003