Thompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YEBWaller, Douglas C.
Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALKennedy, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: "Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, PATRICK J KENRodriguez, Luis J.
Summary: "Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. Rodriguez has a distinctly inspiring passion and wisdom in his approach. Ultimately, the book carries the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he reminds us in the first essay, "The End of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, LUIS J. RODSpengler, Kremena.
Summary: This is an introduction to the life of Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952, who fought for workers' rights and political power for women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERON SPEJamison, Kay R.
Summary: "The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT JAMAtkinson, Jay
Summary: Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter, Martha. A short distance from the village, one of the warriors murdered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 ATKKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern-- head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang-- at the hand of a British policeman during WW II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BISWeintraub, 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 WEIKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTMazzeo, Tilar J.
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton--Alexander Hamilton's devoted wife--in Lin-Manuel Miranda's phenomenal musical Hamilton. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 GARBourassa, Lorraine B.
Summary: Adelard Comtois, son of Simon Comtois and Olivine Ducharme, married Caroline Lambert 26 July 1886 in St. Didace, Quebec. They had ten children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Quebec.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Higginson Book Co 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 COMTOIS BourassaWoodside, Christine
Summary: "Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. This fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women is also the deconstruction of an American myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 WOOVowell, Sarah
Summary: On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VOWFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAREdgers, Geoff.
Summary: Profiles the "King of Rock 'n Roll," focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PRESLEYPollack, Pam
Summary: Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officers in World War II as well as in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TOLKIENRoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFLende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENShepherd, Jodie
Summary: A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEMStine, Megan.
Summary: "Born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, Michael Jackson was definitely not a regular kid. A superstar with The Jackson 5 before he was eight years old, he became the King of Pop as a solo artist. Michael was a creative--yet deeply troubled--genius who always remained devoted to his art right up until his death is 2009 before a much anticipated tour. He had a pitch-perfect voice and footwork...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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Summary: "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017