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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ROBIN DOUDixon, Dougal.
Summary: Explores the restless life of hungry meat eaters and the perilous life of the plant eaters; reveals how they hunted, ate, and raised their young; and explains how paleontologists learn from fossils.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 567.9 DIXDixon, Dougal.
Summary: "Some of the most interesting-looking dinosaurs arrived late in the dinosaur age. These dinosaurs used their armor and horns to survive. Find out what else they did to become the last ones standing"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.9 DIXFarah, Douglas.
Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 FARPrince, April Jones.
Summary: Presents the life of the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, focusing on his childhood and youth as a slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 DOUJones, Seth G.
Summary: "Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 JONJones, Seth G.
Summary: A former senior advisor at U.S. Special Operations Command recounts the history of the United States' ongoing battle against Al Qaida, describing investigations conducted by the combined efforts of the CIA, FBI, and MI5 and the shifting alliances between terrorist groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 JONSummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 STASummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 DOULong, Michael G.
Summary: "Kids have always been on the front lines of the fights for justice. From marches protesting child labor to the student strike that helped build the case for Brown v. Board of Education to modern-day March for Our Lives and the Climate Strike, 'Kids on the March' tells the empowering story of children and teens throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century rallying to fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.083 LONSummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.809 WALGraves, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Publishers 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4542 GRACline-Ransome, Lesa.
Summary: "Words Set Me Free is the inspiring story of young Frederick Douglass's path to freedom through reading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOURyan, James G.
Contents: Adminsitrative divisions -- Civil registration -- Census and census substitutes -- Church records -- Commercial and social directories -- Wills and administrations -- Gravestone inscriptions -- Newspapers -- Land records -- Family names and histories -- Further reading and miscellaneous sources -- Library, archive and society addresses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 RyanRyan, James G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 RYABlight, James G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 BLIJames, T. G. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932 JAMRyan, James G.
Summary: Sligo's population of about 60,000 in 1792 rose to over 180,000 by the mid 1800s when trade was dominated by the flax, wool and linen industries serving the textile trade. This book sets out the records available for Sligo, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect in tracing Sligo families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012