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Dennison, Maureen

Summary: From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest storytellers. He conceived his vocation as that of any fearless explorer and, in his writing for children, he was able to tap into a child's viewpoint throughout his life. He crafted tales...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAHL, ROALD DEN

Dennison, Matthew

Summary: "A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GRAHAME, KENNETH DEN

Vuillard, Éric

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

Hazan, Éric

Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZ

Prado, Ric

Summary: "A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 PRA

Krogh, Egil

Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KRO

Larson, Erik

Summary: In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art of being fearless.' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home Chequers; his wartime retreat Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAR

Slader, Erik

Summary: "Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9 SLA

Larson, Erik

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCHILL LAR

Ball, Erica

Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BAL

Robillard, Evie

Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROB

Ronn, Ernie

Summary: The story of Ernie Ronn, an iron miner in Negaunee, Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Upper Peninsula Studies, Northern Michigan University 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RONN, ERNIE RON

Blehm, Eric

Summary: "From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche-a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Metaxas, Eric

Summary: "On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, biographer Eric Metaxas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, MARTIN MET

French, Erin

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 FRE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food French

McGill, Erin

Summary: "A clever, funny, and informative look at the pets--from Calvin Coolidge's wallaby to Teddy Roosevelt's flying squirrels--that have passed through the White House gates"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.092 MCG

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.092 MCG

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong

Summary: "A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUDGE, ONA DUN

Hayasaki, Erika

Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAY

Krouse, Erika

Summary: "Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 KRO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRO

Fankhouser, Kris

Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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

Schickel, Erika

Summary: "Ericka Schickel's memoir of growing up in the shadow of her writer father and neglectful mother in 1970s and '80s Manhattan, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and the mid-life consequences which include leaving her marriage for a notorious crime writer"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHICKEL, ERIKA SCH

Ervin, Kristine S.

Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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Frankel, Erin

Summary: "A biography about chef José Andrés, who, through his World Central Kitchen organization, is fulfilling a vision to feed people in need all over the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

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Summary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GRE

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