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Aly, Götz

Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALY

Aly, Götz

Summary: "A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0049 ALY

Avi

Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011

Avi

Summary: When his Uncle Jesse heads to the Pike's Peak region of the Rocky Mountains to look for gold, Early Wittcomb follows in hopes of raising enough money to save the family farm, but the journey west is full of hardships.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2008

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2008

Avi

Summary: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVI

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Marton, Kati.

Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MAR

Shlaim, Avi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 SHL

Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak Russian."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2013

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J RUSSIAN 491.78 KAL

Marton, Kati.

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MAR

Matz, Jeffrey.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Monacelli Press 2014

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 MAT

Kamozawa, Aki.

Summary: The writers of Popular Science's "Kitchen Alchemy" online column share informative essays that explain both food-preparation methods and underlying science, building on today's popular "geek-chic" trends with one hundred recipes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 KAM

Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak Japanese."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2013

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Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak Spanish"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 468.3 KAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468.3 CAP

Marton, Kati.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 MAR

Marton, Kati.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MAR

Neville, Kati.

Summary: Presents easy-to-follow recipes for making several servings of main dishes that can be prepared and frozen ahead of time, using bulk-size packages of the meat to make the meals more economical.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.555 NEV

Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak French"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 448.3 KALZ

Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak French"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468.3 CAP

Kalz, Jill.

Summary: "Simple text paired with themed illustrations invite the reader to learn to speak German"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012

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Morton, Kati

Summary: "An accessible guide to understand what trauma is, how PTSD is diagnosed, being aware that it can have a late onset, what can happen if it goes untreated--and how social media can be triggering our trauma"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2021

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Pildas, Ave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter 1980

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 PIL

Simms, Ami

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SIM

Daré, Abi

Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC DARE

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