Comstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMSmith, 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 SMIDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "James Bulloch, a sea captain turned Confederate agent, arrived in Liverpool at a crucial moment during the U.S. Civil War: a Union blockade was preventing Southern cotton exports from reaching Britain, threatening to destroy what was left of the Confederate economy-unless Bulloch could secretly arrange for the construction of a fleet of warships to break the northern grip on the South. Shortly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROSDraycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRAAli-Khan, Sofia
Summary: "A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she's called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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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: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSLieven, D. C. B.
Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIEBrands, H. W.
Summary: "Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRARussell, Gareth
Summary: "Written with narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the young, doomed woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political tension. On the morning of July 28, 1540, as King Henry VIII's former confidant Thomas Cromwell was being led to his execution, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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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 SCOFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIELarman, Alexander
Summary: "Alexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion. When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the day was illusory. Britain may have been victorious in a painful war, but the peace would be no easier. Between the abdication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the book in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AIRichardson, Edmund
Summary: "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASSON, CHARLES RICWarren, Andrea
Summary: "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MINWalters, Ryan S.
Summary: "He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 2022
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Summary: "Long before she became known as the Cactus Queen, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt found solace in the unexpected beauty of the Mojave Desert in California. She loved the jackrabbits and coyotes, the prickly cacti, and especially the weird, spiky Joshua trees. However, in the 1920s, hardly anyone else felt the same way...With the help of her gardening club, taxidermists, and friends, she took the desert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN HARGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith
Summary: "Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, from northern Greece to modern Pakistan, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He led from the front and was often wounded. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II. In Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020