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African Americans Clothing Fashion designers Germany. Heer. Infanterie-Division, 71. HISTORY / World Johnson, Eunice Walker 1916-2010 Natural history Amazon River Valley Presidents United States Biography Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 United StatesBartoletti, Susan Campbell
Summary: "What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MALGoodwin, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 DORANTES, ESTEBAN GOOReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 REIEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIEGreenfield, Robert.
Contents: Prologue: A day in the life, Villa Nellcote, June 1971 -- Hald Hovedgaard -- Twatley Manor -- New Barn Farm and Haileybury -- Lilliesden and Cambridge -- Pont Street -- Holy Trinity Church -- Cambridge Street -- The Flying Dragon -- Glastonbury and Hugh Street -- London to Sydney -- Samye Ling and Lundy Island -- Chester Square -- Almora -- On the way home -- Warneford and Bowden House --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GREBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.845 BRIHerman, Gail
Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the shortstop and captain of the New York Yankees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET JETERBarber, Charles
Summary: "The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 BARMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.1 MilCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardMeyer, Michael
Summary: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0009 MEYBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5112 BOUDuLong, 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 DULPreston, Diana
Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PREFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 FRAStabler, David
Summary: "Center Nikola Jokić is a triple-double machine and a two-time NBA MVP. In 2016, he led Team Serbia to silver at the Olympic Games. Explore his life on and off the court"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOKAllen, 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 ALLShadmi, Koren
Summary: "Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUGOSI, BELA SHAMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Summary: Despite their great achievements following their first powered flights in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright still enjoyed virtual anonymity until 1908. In seven crucial days in May of that year, however, the eyes of the world were suddenly cast upon them as they sought lucrative government contracts for their flying technology and then had to prove the capabilities of their machines.In these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 TISFord, Barbara
Summary: Describes the life of the silversmith who made the historic ride to announce the coming of British troops to Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REVERE FORBrathwaite, Lisa D.
Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHVan Noord, Roger
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRANG, JAMES JESSE VAN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.33 VANN
Parkin, Simon
Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022