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Hansen, Drew D.

Summary: A riveting account of the origins and legacy of "I Have a Dream" Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America's idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR HAN

Haynes, Fred.

Summary: The full story of Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. The unit, 4500 men strong, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat, yet their battle had just begun.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Holden, Greg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 HOL

Taylor, Fred

Summary: Discusses the motivations behind the previously misunderstood bombing raid on Dresden by Allied forces, revealing the city to have been actively involved in military communications and the production of armaments.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 Taylo

Taylor, Fred

Summary: "A best-selling historian's chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, as well as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 TAY

Hayes, Derek

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Summary: Explores the U.S.'s past from a geographical perspective, presenting more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world and discussing important events and cultural changes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911 HAY

Taylor, Fred

Summary: One morning in 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed wire became a 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the Cold War that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 TAY

Cole, Tayler

Summary: Introduces readers to the most interesting aspects of the muscular system, including how muscles make the heart work and move food through the stomach.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.7 COL

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLDEN, EDITH EDW

Hayden, Robert

Summary: Features the work of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century, containing poems which contemplate the black experience and deal with such themes as dreams, mortality, nature, travel, and memory

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry Hayden

Hayden, Tom.

Summary: Barack Obama would not be possible without the 1960s, Hayden writes in his compelling new book. The author reminds the president that the peace movement was critical to his 2008 victory and only a radical populism will make his economic recovery and health-care promises come to fruition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HAY

Herrera, Hayden.

Summary: An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHLO, FRIDA HER

Cole, Tayler

Summary: Presents the basics of blood cells and blood vessels, including how the circulatory system moves nutrients, oxygen, hormones, and electrolytes to exactly where they need to go, from the brain to the feet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.1 COL

Herrera, Hayden.

Summary: "From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOGUCHI, ISAMU HER

Hayden, Sally

Summary: "The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.8096 HAY

Harden, Blaine

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HAR

Contents: Preface / David Haynes -- Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi -- Story maps / Robert Archibald -- An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays -- Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson -- Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook -- "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. Northern

Harden, Blaine

Summary: "The untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history sheds new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HAR

Harden, Blaine

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HAR

Harden, Blaine.

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Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 HAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHIN HAR

Hawken, Paul.

Summary: Traces the contributions of a diverse, worldwide grassroots humanitarian movement through which conscientious individuals and organizations are dedicating their efforts to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 HAW

Stout, Zaylore

Summary: In 2014, Zaylore Stout took a drive across the country. Sate line after state line, he found himself detouring to landmarks of the LGBT+ heroes and history in each new place. And so, like a travel guide through the LGBT+ past and present, Our Gay History in Fifty States was born. Encompassing all fifty states as well as Washington, DC, and island territories, this book documents the highs and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wise Ink Creative Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 STO

Tasler, Nick

Summary: Explores nature-versus-environmental factors that influence how people make decisions, offering advice for adapting one's decision-making style in order to improve everyday circumstances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 TAS

Hardin, David

Contents: The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Hardin

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