Carmon, Irin

Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER Car

Larson, Erik

Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LAR

Larson, Erik

Summary: On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LAR

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Summary: Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SER

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEN

Jarman, Cat

Summary: An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings' route may have been far more varied than previously known.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 JAR

Contents: Pass around the bottle (Ernest Stoneman) -- Lorena (Blue Ridge Mountain Singers) -- Johnson boy (Grant Brothers & their Music) -- Dixie (Red Mountain Trio) -- The faded coat of blue (Buell Kazee) -- He is coming to us dead (G.B. Grayson, fiddle, vocals ; Henry Whitter, guitar) -- Sweet bunch of violets (Ernest Stoneman) -- In those cruel slavery days (Ward & Winfield) -- The year of Jubilo...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BUS

Larman, Alexander

Summary: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LAR

Irwin, Sophie

Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023

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MacGregor, Iain

Summary: "A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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

Parton, Dolly

Summary: Showcasing the music legend's most unforgettable looks from the 1960s until now, this stunningly photographed book displays Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style along with entertaining personal anecdotes that, for the first time, reveal the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987

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Bennett, Brit

Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020

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Maalouf, Amin.

Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAA

Kohl, Cris.

Summary: A proven bestseller just got better! New second edition includes the 51 best shipwrecks in the eastern Great Lakes (Lakes Ontario, Erie & Huron). Several new shipwrecks not in the previous edition appear now due to recent discoveries and sinkings. Exciting histories and wreck descriptions. Updated and new GPS coordinates for precisely locating shipwrecks. 122 color photos spread throughout the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seawolf Communications 2005

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KOH VOL 1
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Yang, Iris

Summary: Sworn brothers—one American, one Chinese—captured, imprisoned, tortured. Survival is just the beginning of the battle... In 1942, Birch Bai, a Chinese pilot, and Danny Hardy, a downed American pilot, become sworn brothers and best friends. In the summer of 1945, both airmen’s planes go down in Yunnan Province of China during one of many daring missions. They are captured, imprisoned, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Open Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Chin, Ava

Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, AVA CHI

Bennett, Brit

Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

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Summary: An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRI

Yang, Iris

Summary: World War Two. Japanese occupied China. One cousin's courage, another's determination to help a wounded American pilot. In the summer of 1942, Danny Hardy bails out of his fighter plane into a remote region of western China. With multiple injuries, malaria, and Japanese troops searching for him, the American pilot?s odds of survival are slim. Jasmine Bai, an art student who has been saved by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Open Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Gellman, Barton

Summary: "Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 GEL

Larson, Kirby

Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013

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