Carby, 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 CARCarter, Stephen L.
Summary: "She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: "Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica, this musician and songwriter began his career with his band, The Wailing Wailers, in 1963. The Wailers went on to spread the gospel of reggae music around the globe. Bob's distinctive style and dedication to his Rastafari beliefs became a rallying cry for the poor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET MARLEYTate, Don
Summary: "From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousing story of Ernie Barnes, an African American pro football player and fine artist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARBarretta, Gene
Summary: When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a secret: a garden of his own. Here, he rolled dirt between his fingers to check if plants needed more rain or sun. He protected roots through harsh winters, so plants could be reborn in the spring. He trimmed flowers, spread soil, studied life cycles. And it was in this very place that George’s love of nature sprouted into something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio CarverAbrams, Dan
Summary: Theodore Roosevelt, the boisterous and mostly beloved legendary American hero, had accused his former friend and ally, now turned rival William Barnes of political corruption. Furious, Barnes responded by suing Roosevelt for an enormous sum that could have financially devastated him. In May, 1915, more than fifty newspapers sent reporters to cover the trial. Accounts from inside and outside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 ABRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.73 ABRMoorhouse, Roger
Summary: "In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MOOWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIGregory, Paul R.
Summary: "In The Oswalds, Paul Gregory--labeled by Robert Oswald as the 'only' friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his soviet wife Marina--breaks nearly sixty years of silence to reveal how the soul of a killer took shape. Two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile in the student center at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GREDuane, Anna Mae
Summary: "Educated for Freedom" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUAEizenstat, Stuart
Summary: "The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments--drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes. Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY EIZGarner, Dwight
Summary: "The New York Times book critic gathers his literary chorus to capture the pure pleasure of reading and eating in this comic, soulful, semi-autobiographic treasure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN ABRStillman, Deanne
Summary: In this noirish mother-son tale playing out across the Wild West of mid-twentieth century America, published on the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a critically acclaimed writer investigates the short, troubled life of the ordinary man and his mother who took down the leader of the so-called Free World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 STIAlter, Jonathan
Summary: An intimate portrait of the thirty-ninth president draws on fresh archival material to trace Jimmy Carter's improbable rise from a humble peanut farmer and complex man of faith to an American president and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARTER ALTBird, Kai
Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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Summary: "Scott Eyman, author of the New York Times bestseller JOHN WAYNE: The Life and Legend, has written an incisive, definitive biography of another great Hollywood legend, Cary Grant, drawing in part on new research into Grant's all-important early years, which permanently shaped his life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, CARY EYMGlass, Charles
Summary: "A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 GLALatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALClark, Alexis
Summary: "The love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ClarkMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020