Fitzpatrick, Insha

Summary: From refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger to sparking civil rights protests across America, explore how Rosa Parks's powerful act earned her the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." A story of resistance, strength, and unwavering spirit, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the American Civil Rights leader -- brought to life by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAR

Theoharis, Jeanne

Summary: "This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 PAR

Tucker, Ruth

Summary: Katherine Luther, a former nun, was a decisive, assertive partner of Martin Luther, unlike most preacher's wives of her time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, KATHARINA VON BORA TUC

Reyburn, Susan

Summary: "In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height of the Montgomery Bus...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press, in association with The Library of Congress 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA REY

Hulls, Tessa

Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HUL

Huey, Michael

Contents: volume 1. 1921-1963.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4635 HUE

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAB

Butcher, Tim

Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUT

Marcus, Clare Cooper.

Summary: A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir "Iona Dreaming" is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicolas-Hays 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARCUS, CLARE COOPER MAR

Berglund, Bruce R.

Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BER

Punch, Terrence M.

Summary: Erin's Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2008

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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. I
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Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. IV

Fleming, 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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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 FLE

Wood, Alix.

Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the Spanish painter known for his bold use of paints, discussing his childhood, the themes in his art, and his famous works.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.46 GOY

Bailey, Elisabeth Tova.

Summary: While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Tova Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snail's anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 594.38 BAI

Dubbins, Andrew

Summary: Dubbins chronicles the story of the pioneering Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) and George Morgan, one of its last surviving members, as they cleared a path for Allied invasion forces and helped win World War II.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DUB

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War Dubbins

Cohen, Roger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 COH

Cunningham, Chet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.545 CUN

Pringle, Laurence P.

Summary: A biography of Cynthia Moss, world-renowned elephant researcher in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, illustrated with her own photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: 599.67 PRI

Bailey, Elisabeth Tova.

Summary: In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a "Neohelix albolabris" --a common woodland snail.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 594.38 BAI

Leamer, Laurence

Summary: Offering an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories help chart the course of the enigmatic director's career, this mesmerizing account takes a modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed-and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LEA

Borneman, Walter R.

Summary: Evaluates the pivotal contributions of history's only five-star admirals and how their triumphs in World War II rendered the United States the world's dominant sea power.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 BOR

Jones, Brent E.

Summary: "An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named after her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JON

Campbell, Greg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.71 CAM