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Amazon River Valley Description and travel Natural history Amazon River Valley Presidents United States Biography Rain forests Amazon River Valley Roosevelt River (Brazil) Description and travel Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) Sexism in medicine United States Women Biography Women in medicine United States BiographyMillard, Candice
Summary: "At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardMillard, Candice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 918.113 MillardCayne, Candis
Summary: "Trailblazing transgender actress, activist, and style icon Candis Cayne has spent a lifetime learning how to see herself for who she really is, and along the way has taught herself and others how to celebrate inner beauty as the perfect starting point for outer radiance. Drawing from her personal journey to self-acceptance and comprised of a unique combination of cross-barrier, body-positive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CAYMontgomery, Sy
Summary: "The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 578 MONMontgomery, Ben.
Summary: "Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATEWOOD, EMMA ROWENA CALDWELL MONFleming, Candace
Summary: "During the reign of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun ruled and died tragically young. In order to send him on his way into the afterlife, his tomb was filled with every treasure he would need after death. And then, it was lost to time, buried in the sands of the Valley of the Kings. His tomb was also said to be cursed. Centuries later, as Egypt-mania gripped Europe, two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 FLEFleming, Candace.
Summary: Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life--as a child, a woman, and a pilot--and describes the search for her missing plane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB EARHART FLEMontgomery, Ben
Summary: A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 MONMontgomery, Sy
Summary: "When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan's farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris's hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.9 MONFleming, Candace
Summary: "Readers are told the story of Helen Martini's care for lion and tiger cubs, and her emergence as the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARFleming, Candace
Summary: " "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEFleming, Candace
Summary: Introduces the life of the American West hero, discussing his contributions to the Pony Express, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Native American rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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Summary: "A riveting biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men, Charles Lindbergh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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Summary: Explores the life of Harry Houdini including his childhood, marriage, and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOUMontgomery, Heather L.
Summary: "A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing nine scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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Summary: A portrait of the author of "Anne of Green Gables" shares revelations about Montgomery's final days as well as the complexities of her brilliant but often troubled life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONNimura, Janice P.
Summary: "The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIMSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors-- Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda-- grew up as typical American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERClifford, Mary Louise.
Summary: Hundreds of American women have kept the lamps burning in lighthouses since Hannah Thomas tended Gurnet Point Light in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while her husband was away fighting in the War for Independence. Women Who Kept the Lights details the careers of 34 intrepid women who were official keepers of light stations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, on Lake Champlain and the Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cypress Communications 2013