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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 ROFHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFHuffman, Eddie
Summary: In "John Prine," Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine's musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine's best-known songs and discusses all of Prine's albums as he explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRINE, JOHN HUFLeasor, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LEALeasor, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5425 LEAFitzsimons, Eleanor
Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITRoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOHerman, Eleanor
Summary: While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation’s leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possible the qualities needed to run for president—narcissism, a thirst for power, a desire for importance—go hand in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.099 HERRoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: "Experience the timeless wit and wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years. In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her regular press conferences, her activism on behalf of women, minorities, and youth, her lecture tours,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOClift, Eleanor.
Summary: Historical overview examining the 72 year struggle to secure women's right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.62 CLIDwight, Eleanor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VREELAND, DIANA DwightHerman, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.634 HERKeaton, Eleanor
Summary: Known for his legendary stone face and physical gags, Buster Keaton was a genius of silent-film comedy. Decades after their release, his movies remain unsurpassed marvels of comic invention and mechanical timing. In Buster Keaton remembered, an illustrated survey of Keaton's career, Eleanor Keaton, his wife of 26 years, and film historian Jeffrey Vance provide a personal account of this icon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 KEAHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARHoffman, Carl
Summary: Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995 HOFAyer, Eleanor H.
Summary: Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 AYEPassano, Eleanor Phillips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3752 PassaHoffman, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 HOFPeyser, Marc N.
Summary: Examines the relationship between cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "revealing the contentious bond between two political trailblazers who short-circuited the rules of gender and power, each in her own way"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US PeyserRappaport, Doreen.
Summary: A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2009