Harris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HAROlsen, Tillie.
Summary: A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Nebraska Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 OLSJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENBurling, Alexis
Summary: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 BURWiles, Deborah
Summary: It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALEllis, Grace
Summary: A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ELLCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLISmith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIWelty, Eudora
Summary: "Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WEL1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL
Summary: A collection of science fiction stories by women from the 1940s to the 1970s. They include Pamela Zoline's The Heat Death of the Universe, on the entropic decline of the universe, Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang, in which a ship falls in love with its pilot, and Kit Reed's The Food Farm, a horror story about pop music, mass communication and food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOMSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWPercy, Walker
Summary: The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson "Binx" Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024
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Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEASepahban, Lois.
Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEPEdel, Leon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, HENRY EDEHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLLasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASSmith, Elliott
Summary: During the turbulent 1960s, the reader's plot choices determine their role in the historic fight for equal rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMIO'Shaughnessy, Kathy
Summary: "Who was the real George Eliot? Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OSHO'Leary, Sara
Summary: "A charming picture book about the Brontë siblings as children creating their own adventures,"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Book Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE O'LECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLESummary: "A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 TRENelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
Summary: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2015