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Authors, American 20th century Biography Clark, Huguette 1906-2011 Homes and haunts United States Clark, William Andrews 1839-1925 Family Collectors and collecting United States Biography Family secrets Genetic genealogy Griffith family Homes Mansions United States History United StatesGouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUPuleo, Stephen
Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 PULBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNHamill, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 HAMStorey, Kate
Summary: Drawing from conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, and household and security staff, this multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on the nation's politics and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STOFrancis, Emily A.
Summary: "The Taste of Joy shows you the value of living simply, mindfully, seasonally, and naturally, while feeding the body and soul more richly. Explore your own path to happiness as Emily recounts her eye-opening experiences getting to know a new region, its inhabitants, and their culture. With Emily's thought-provoking pearls of wisdom and a handful of recipes, you can get a taste of blissful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.591822 FRABlais, Madeleine
Summary: "In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect. Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond--well-stocked with oysters and crab for foraged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIS, MADELEINE BLATubbs, Anna Malaika
Summary: "In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBFlavell, Julie
Summary: "Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLATeege, Jennifer
Summary: "The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted [by Ralph Fiennes] in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEEGE, JENNIFER TEEKane, Robert L.
Contents: Background -- The stroke -- Rehabilitation -- Assisted living -- The dementia unit -- Nursing home -- Doctors, other medical personnel, and hospitals -- Informal care -- The roads not taken -- End of life -- What kind of long-term care do we want? -- What can we do about it?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 KANSlovo, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLODedman, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE DEDHemingway, Valerie
Summary: Irish reporter Valerie Hemingway chronicles the years she spent as a personal secretary and confidante to Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary, and her eventual marriage to Hemingway's estranged son, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.52 HEMDotti, Luca
Summary: Enter Audrey Hepburn’s private world in this unique biography compiled by her son that combines recollections, anecdotes, excerpts from her personal correspondence, drawings, and recipes for her favorite dishes written in her own hand, and more than 250 previously unpublished personal family photographs. Audrey at Home offers fans an unprecedented look at the legendary star, bringing together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, AUDREY DOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food DottiCarlsen, Spike
Summary: "Carpenter Spike Carlsen, his wife, and their recently blended family of five kids set out to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the funny, wry, and heartwarming story of their eventful journey--from buying land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the hideaway of their dreams. Learning as they go, and learning about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 690.80 CARMcDowell, Marta
Summary: "This lushly illustrated book from bestselling author Marta McDowell examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's relationship to the landscape and illuminates how it inspired the beloved Little House Books" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2017
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Summary: Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE GORSchopieray, Julie.
Summary: "In 1883, after falling in love with the beauty of the area, George and Cornelia Lathrop purchased ten acres of land on the lower part of the Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse County. And thus began the community of Edgewood Resort. Edgewood thrived as a destination resort from the 1880s into the 1950s. At its heyday, fifteen cottages were in operation. Although the resort no longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bacon Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.464 SCHFrankel, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRAStiefel, Chana
Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STIMarkham, Lauren
Summary: Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 MARMilani, Alice
Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURGriffeth, Bill (William C.)
Summary: "In his 2016 best-seller, 'The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir,' Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries..."--Inside jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2022