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Weliver, Phyllis

Summary: "Phyllis Weliver was in the vanguard of those who first became ill from the novel coronavirus. Ten months later, she had recovered enough to return to work. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a glacier lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Medical Weliver

Glover, James M.

Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLO

Van Sciver, Noah

Summary: "Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, JOSEPH VAN

Schmidt, Shannon McKenna

Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCH

Campbell, Olivia

Summary: "In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they frequently avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness - a negative diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs, or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 920 CAM

Irving, Clive

Summary: "Clive Irving's stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen probes the question of the British monarchy's longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But through Irving's unique insight there emerges a more fragile institution, whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II IRV

Rappaport, Doreen

Summary: "A biography of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center Ellen Ochoa"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OCH

Jones, Nigel H.

Summary: Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JON

Root, Phyllis

Summary: Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

McAlister, Caroline

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

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