Pagel-Hogan, Elizabeth
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIBuckley, William F. (William Frank)
Summary: The late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan's political career. They went on vacations together and shared inside jokes. Yet for all the words that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, RONALD BuckleyDedman, Bill.
Summary: "When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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Summary: "In People vs. Donald Trump, Pomerantz tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and what we can learn about the nature of justice in America from this extraordinary case. The investigation led him to believe that the former president's approach to business had much in common with the business practices of another well-known public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 POMStark, Lizzie.
Summary: "Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 STAStark, Peter
Summary: "The conquest of indigenous land in the American East through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. Acclaimed author Peter Stark exposes the fundamental conflicts at play through the little-known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders. William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, son of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.004 STAStark, Peter
Contents: Prologue -- Where the Acadians disappeared in northern Maine -- The wild lands of western Pennsylvania -- The lost country of southeast Oregon -- The high, haunted desert of New Mexico -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STAGilliam, Dorothy Butler
Summary: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, DOROTHY BUTLER GILStark, Peter
Summary: Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.5 STAGardiner, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac State Historic Parks 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 GARMontgomery, 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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Contents: Introduction -- Every word he said was funny -- The funniest dishwasher on this earth -- Redd Foxx looked better on a marquee -- I gave it to them funky -- The king of the party records -- It's not easy out there -- Los Angeles is a rotten town for nightlife -- Sanford and son -- The godfather of sitcom -- The way it is, I'm still in slavery -- A cross between Disneyland and a circus -- Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOXX, REDD STWillink, Jocko
Summary: With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: NOG Press 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 920 WEDStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STAStahr, Celia
Summary: "The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHLO, FRIDA STAStarr, Emmet.
Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 StarrStark, Steven D.
Summary: The band that changed popular culture forever has become so shrouded in cultural mythology that it is difficult today to really understand how or why. Stark puts their impact into perspective by revealing both the personal details and the larger events, examining the ways in which the Beatles' own lives were inextricably tied to the cultural, youth, and gender revolutions they helped create and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 STARobinson, Staci
Summary: "The first and only Estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKUR, TUPAC ROBSparke, Penny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.4442 SPAStorm, Morten
Summary: Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STORM, MORTEN STOStahr, Walter
Summary: "From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021