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Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIWeintraub, Stanley
Summary: In "Young Mr. Roosevelt" Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D WEIWeintraub, Beverly
Summary: "This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 WEIWeintraub, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truman Talley Books/Dutton 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 JONBlumenthal, 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 BLUMcNamara, Eileen
Summary: Examines the life of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, covering her Stanford education, her inspirational relationship with her sister Rosemary, her advocacy on behalf of disabled citizens, and her role as founder of the Special Olympics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHRIVER, EUNICE KENNEDY MCNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHRIVER MCNVaughan, Alden T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMIHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HERArlen, Alice
Summary: "The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PATTERSON, ALICIA ARLBjorkman, Eileen A.
Summary: "In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. From the first women in the military in World War II to the final push in the 1990s, The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knox Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.4082 BJOShaw, Bernard
Contents: A patchwork self-portrait, 1898-1950.--Preface: Who I am.--Plays for puritans.--Cerebral capers.--The court experiment.--The practical impossibilities of censorship.--Shavian busts.--Tree and a potboiler.--War madness.--Joy riding at the front.--Crash of an epoch.--Burglars.--A member by baptism.--Back to Methuselah.--How to write a play.--Saint Joan.--Fabian politics.--The apple cart.--Touring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.9 SHAWeis, Frederick Lewis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.7 WEIAllen, Charlotte
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.908 ALLAllen, Arthur
Summary: Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALLShawn, Allen
Summary: Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In this fascinating new biography, the breadth of Bernstein’s musical composition is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNSTEIN, LEONARD SHASalkin, Allen
Summary: Between 2000 and 2015, when Trump announced his candidacy, he was able to identify an unserved political constituency, hone a persuasive message that appealed to their needs, and deliver it effectively, despite intense media opposition. Salkin and Short provide a nonpartisan oral history which shows that Trump had carefully planned his bid for the presidency since he launched what many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SALAllen, John
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURCrute, Josh
Summary: Sometimes in London it drizzles. Sometimes it mizzles. Other times it pelts and showers and spits. And Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. How can he go about his day as a proper London gentleman when his shoes are soggy, his coat is always collecting puddles, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Fed up with damp and dreary London, Jonas sails far away, to places where the sun always shines. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HANGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was his Senate campaign against the country's most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. Lincoln challenged Douglas directly in one of his greatest speeches--"A house divided against itself cannot stand"--and confronted Douglas on the questions of slavery and the inviolability of the Union in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.68 GUEGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, ROBERT E. GUEAllen, Thomas B.
Summary: "In 1789, the federal government described in the recently ratified U.S. Constitution came into being. Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen tells the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set this new federal government into motion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US AllenAllen, Thomas B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001