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Manning, Chandra

Summary: Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised "contraband camps". These were crowded and dangerous places, with conditions approaching those of a humanitarian crisis, yet families and individuals took...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MAN

Khandro

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.374 RIN

Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANN

Kerbel, Deborah

Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KER

Bayarri, Jordi

Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023

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Manning, Jack.

Summary: "Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to longhouses"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 MAN

Blanning, Beverley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 BLA

Mangino, Kate

Summary: "From gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino comes Equal Partners, an informed guide about how we can all collectively work to undo harmful gender norms and create greater household equity. As American society shut down due to Covid, millions of women had to leave their jobs to take on full-time childcare. As the country opens back up, women continue to struggle to balance the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 MAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 MAN

Gunning, Sally.

Summary: When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Mannon, Melissa.

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Archivesinfo.com] 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.3 MAN

Moening, Kate

Summary: "Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to angelfish. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.72 MOE

Moening, Kate

Summary: "Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to sea horses. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2022

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Fanning, Robbie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Co. 1980

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Blanning, Tim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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Chachra, Deb

Summary: "A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract-of our ability to work collectively for the public good-and it consists of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 CHA

Landra, Maie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth & Spring Books 2006

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.432 LAN

Banting, Erinn.

Summary: This book explores the plants, animals, and environment of the tundra.

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Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 by Weigl 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.586 BAN

Lanning, Michael Lee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LAN

Lanning, Michael Lee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 LAN

Manning, Ivy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 MAN

Manning, Jack.

Summary: "Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to igloos"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 MAN

Manning, Kirsty

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come... Paris, around about now: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Manning 2021

Jaggar, Louisa

Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAN

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda

Summary: "Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 PRE

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