Messick, Hank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McKay 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOStout, Zaylore
Summary: In 2014, Zaylore Stout took a drive across the country. Sate line after state line, he found himself detouring to landmarks of the LGBT+ heroes and history in each new place. And so, like a travel guide through the LGBT+ past and present, Our Gay History in Fifty States was born. Encompassing all fifty states as well as Washington, DC, and island territories, this book documents the highs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wise Ink Creative Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 STOBryant, Jennifer
Summary: "Though not as widely known as other basketball legends, hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of the game's all-time greatest players-an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. A member of the early, scrappy NBA and one of the first professional African American players, Elgin (b. 1934) played in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAYLawlor, Laurie.
Summary: Profiles six women scientists who persevered in the face of prejudice, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark and mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 LAWLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: At thirty, Crispin burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, still on the road, she's in search not so much of a home as of understanding. Fascinated by exile, Crispin traveled an itinerary of key locations that have drawn writers who needed to break free and start fresh. She explores why the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRISPIN, JESSA CRIBlumenthal, Eileen
Summary: Surveys Julie Taymor's innovative work in design, production, and direction, and discusses her use of puppetry, masks, and dance movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 792.0233 BLUMayor, Adrienne
Summary: A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITHRADATES MAYGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKWarner, Jessica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.385 AITKEN, JAMES WARDuLong, Jessica.
Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 DULGarrison, Jessica
Summary: "In the tradition of authors Jill Leovy and Beth Macy, award-winning Buzzfeed investigative journalist Jessica Garrison unravels the real-life story of Jose Martinez, a serial killer and drug cartel debt collector responsible for the murders of Latinos inthe impoverished towns of California's Central Valley, and sheds light on the lack of protection for the poor THE DEVIL'S HARVEST tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GARGoudeau, Jessica
Summary: "An award-winning author's deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths Over seven generations, Jessica Goudeau's family members were church elders, preachers, Sunday school teachers and potluck organizers. Her great-grandfather helped establish a Christian university in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Surveys the life and career of the baseball star most noted for hitting 755 home runs--a record that lasted over thirty years--describing his time in the Negro Leagues and his work off the field to advance equal opportunity in baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AARTabor, Nick
Summary: "In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 TABGoudeau, Jessica
Summary: "The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 GOUBuchanan, Jessica.
Summary: An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BUCHerthel, Jessica.
Summary: Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENTaylor, Alan
Summary: The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 TAYTaylor, Barbara
Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. The Last Asylum is Taylor’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 TAYTaylor, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POE TAYLORBranch, Taylor.
Summary: This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRATaylor, Benjamin
Summary: "A brief and tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a life-long lover of Willa Cather's work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTaylor, Eva
Summary: Drawing on an astonishing archive of letters, which revealed life during wartime, a true story follows a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter and underground war hero who spent two years in three concentration camps during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022