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Peres, Shimon

Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PER

Abawi, Atia

Summary: "As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021

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

Bade, Patrick

Summary: Gustav Klimt at Home explores the influences of Vienna and other places Klimt travelled to and called home on his life and work. Klimt was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. He was both influenced by and shaped the city of Vienna at the turn of the century. His trips to Ravenna, as well as annual summer holidays with the Floge family on the shores of Attersee...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 KLIMT BAD

Eade, Philip

Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted--and fascinating--writers of our time Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as "the greatest novelist of my generation," and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAUGH, EVELYN EAD

Eade, Philip.

Summary: Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE CONSORT EADE

Carmon, Irin

Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CAR

Swanson, Shari

Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SWA

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 NUL

Hustvedt, Siri.

Summary: While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. Then the seizures happened again and again. This book tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 HUS

Dubeau, Sharon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Generation Press 1983

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.371 Dubea

Langley, Sharon

Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LAN

Malone, Sharon

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024

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Sharon, Gilad.

Summary: Written by his youngest son, a portrait of the former Israeli prime minister draws from diaries, day books, military directives, and correspondence to trace his evolution into one of the world's most powerful and influential figures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARON, ARIEL SHA

Parachini, Jodie

Summary: "A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021

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

Pisano, Dominick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in association with Harry N. Abrams 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 PIS

Bird, Kai

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR

Jaffe, Adi

Summary: "Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose"--Back cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IGNTD Press 2018

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Chaffee, Kim

Summary: "As a kid, Abby Wambach was loud and clear about what she wanted and what she didn't--and she didn't want to be left out of any competition, especially soccer. Darting down fields and booting balls ... into goals, Abby worked her way up from competitive youth player to U.S. Women's National Soccer Team star."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023

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

Summary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POE

Jaggar, Louisa

Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAN

De la Cruz, Sharon Lee

Summary: "In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, the author shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which oppression was the cause for her late bloom into queerness, we are invited to discover people and things in the author's life that helped shape and inform...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DE L

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