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Pagel-Hogan, Elizabeth

Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Griffith, Elisabeth

Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GRI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRI

Townsend, Elisabeth

Summary: This is the first culinary history of a truly remarkable fish. Elisabeth Townsend follows cod around the globe, showing how its pursuit began with the Vikings, and exploring its influence on human affairs ever since. The book looks at the different ways cod has been caught, cooked, and eaten, often by the descendants of explorers, enslaved people, and traders. Cod examines the fish in the myths...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.392 TOW

Cobbs, Elizabeth

Summary: "Cobbs traces the long history of American feminism, dating back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. She tells this story through the public and private lives of 16 women who pushed the boundaries of their times and insisted on their right to control their bodies and their lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 COB

Raum, Elizabeth.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Describes the events of the nineteenth century California gold rush. Reader's choices reveal historical details of how miners traveled, how they looked for gold, and their impact on California's history"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOU

Raum, Elizabeth.

Summary: "Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, A Capstone Imprint 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 RAU

Raum, Elizabeth.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both the British and American sides"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 RAU

Raum, Elizabeth

Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the New Hampshire Colony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.2 RAU

Wein, Elizabeth

Summary: A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's elderly, German-born aunt, Jane Warner, finds it but doesn't report it. Flight-Lieutenant Jamie Beaufort-Stuart intercepts a signal but can't figure it out. Ellen McEwen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Wein 2020

Raum, Elizabeth.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Describes the events of the American Revolutionary War and explains the significance of the war today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a young girl, a patriot fighter, and a loyalist determined to keep America under British rule"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOU

Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann)

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where--rather than reforming the children in their care--school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2020

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Jacobson, Helen Elizabeth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 1975

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377427 Jacobson

Cohen, Elizabeth F.

Summary: "In Illegal, prominent political scientist Elizabeth Cohen explores the dark history of US immigration policy and proposes a major new plan for full-scale reform. As Cohen shows, the US has always maintained the right to exclude people from entry-from those deemed to have seditious intent to a broad category of "undesirables," which has at times included epileptics, prostitutes, beggars, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 COH

Plumb, Robert C.

Summary: "This multi-layered biography examines five remarkable women who made important contributions to the Union cause at various stages before, during, and following the defining years of the American Civil War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 PLU

Commins, Pat

Summary: "To leave or stay was the question for the Irish in the nineteenth century. In Ireland, people suffered persecution, poverty and famine. America offered freedom and opportunity. For those who left and came to Michigan, the land's abundant natural resources encouraged them to become loggers, miners, fishermen, traders and farmers. Others became rail workers, merchants, lawyers, soldiers, doctors...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 COM
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4 COM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 COM

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