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Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: The 1800 presidential election, the last great contest of the founding period, was so convulsive and so momentous for American democracy that Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." America's first true presidential campaign gave birth to our two-party system and etched the lines of partisanship that have shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important--yet almost always overlooked--chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE LARCaudill, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 345.0288 CAUSummary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVChadwick, Elizabeth
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine is forced into a marriage she does not want, and when a death thrusts her into the role of queen, she faces scandal, forbidden love, and the complexities of the ruthless French court at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChadwick, Elizabeth.
Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMarron, Aileen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.6 MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMaryon, Herbert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.2 MARMarron, Catie
Summary: "Filled with specially commissioned color photography, watercolors, and fine art, Becoming a Gardener is a beautifully designed first-hand account of what it means to become a gardener. Catie Marron details her experience over eighteen months, documentingher studies, her triumphs, her mistakes, and everything in between while infusing it with the rich advice of a variety of writers over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0973 MARMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MARChadwick, Bruce.
Summary: "A revealing new portrait of James and Dolley Madison, America's first political power couple. In this comprehensive biography of James and Dolley Madison, historian Bruce Chadwick introduces the reader to "America's first power couple." Using newly uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, Chadwick has been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons' personal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MADISON, JAMES & DOLLEY CHAChadwick, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARRadzinsky, Edvard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 MARHardwick, Lamar
Summary: "An autistic pastor and disability scholar helps the contemporary church understand the connections between ableism and racism and how to dismantle both in attitudes and practices"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 HARChadwick, Stephen Robert
Summary: Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springer 2017
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Summary: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Mac©Ưas, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Azuela 2008Barson, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001