Weliver, Phyllis
Summary: "Phyllis Weliver was in the vanguard of those who first became ill from the novel coronavirus. Ten months later, she had recovered enough to return to work. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a glacier lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Medical WeliverBinns, Barbara
Summary: "The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILLever, Évelyne.
Summary: A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life from her birth, through her unhappy marriage, her lavish life at Versailles, to the events leading up to her death by beheading during the French Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARIE ANTONINETTE LEVBannos, Pamela
Summary: Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN BANZacks, Richard.
Summary: Recounts the effort by newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to shut down late nineteenth-century New York City's brothels, gambling houses, and after-hours saloons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.23 ZACBalis, Andrea
Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.9 BALBlake, Olivie
Summary: Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLSON, SIGURD BACWeatherford, J. McIver
Summary: "Reveals how Genghis Khan harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. By the New York Times best-selling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 950 WEADowns, Linda Bank.
Summary: Poster in pocket inside back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.972 DOWGlover, Lorri
Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 GLOWine-Banks, Jill
Summary: "It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, JOSEPH VANWeatherford, J. McIver.
Summary: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 950.21 WEAWeatherford, J. McIver.
Summary: A history of the ruling women of the Mongol Empire, this work reveals their struggle to preserve a nation that shaped the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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Summary: Short biographies of French-Canadian settlers in Canada from 1618 to 1700.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everton Publishers 1972
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 OLIGlover, James M.
Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLOBecks-Malorny, Ulrike
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 BECMarks, Ann
Summary: "The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context ofher life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN MARMarks, Lauren
Summary: "An eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover that she had aphasia, a rare condition in which one loses the ability to speak, read and write"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARKS, LAUREN MARParks, Rosa
Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of social injustice and did not think a woman should be forced to stand so that a man could sit down. Yet her simple act of courage set in motion a chain of events that changed forever the landscape of American race relations. Now, forty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 PARBracks, Lean'tin L.
Summary: "Updated and revised for the first time in over a decade, the second edition of African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence is a comprehensive and inspiring book that celebrates the African American experience, highlighting the extraordinary people and their profound influence on American history. It covers a wide range of topics, including literature, art, music, the civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. Historian Brands follows Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War, to his years as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres BrandsBrands, H. W.
Summary: "From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016