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Alford, Terry Cooper, Anderson Draycott, Jane (Jane Louise) Fishman, Boris Hulls, TessaHulls, 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 HULAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFCooper, Anderson
Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ASTOR COOFishman, Boris
Summary: The author shares the story of his family, their immigration, and the challenges of navigating two cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHMAN, BORIS FISDraycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023