Daugherty, Tracy
Summary: "A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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Summary: In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 DAULaird, Tracey E. W.
Summary: Austin City Limits--the longest running musical showcase in the history of television--is still captivating audiences forty years after its debut on the air. For decades it has defined popular roots music and indie rock-from Willie Nelson's legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical episodes running through the years to Season 35, to mythical performances of BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughn, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 LAIBall, Robert W. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 681.113 BALTydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies)
Summary: "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A & M University Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.014 DOHDougherty, Kevin.
Summary: An illustrated guide to 20 battles of the American Civil War, giving quick facts, narrative description, and detailed maps of each battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 DOUBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAPWhite, Tracie
Summary: "For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak. The sound of music causes him pain. At one point, the formerly healthy, young, freelance photographer, faced starvation as his 6'3" frame withered to 115 pounds. In desperation, Whitney and his parents went from one specialist to another, and still no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WHISummary: "From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life. Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, The Black Agenda is the first book of its kind-a bold and urgent move towards social justice through a profound collection of essays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAHawksworth, D. L.
Summary: A latest entry in the series that includes Dinosaurium introduces readers to the world of fungi and why they are among the planet's most remarkable living organisms, explaining the vital role they play in medicine, agriculture, and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: "On a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap. It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct. The woman's husband was the chief engineer, and he knew all about the dangerous new technique involved. The woman insisted she learn as well. When he fell ill mid-construction, her knowledge came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Describes the experiences of the crew of the Titanic, including daily responsibilities as well as how they handled the sinking of the ship"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "Cities are the engines of economic progress and the places that give birth to ideas that shape our lives. For generations, arriving in a major city was the first step toward the American Dream. But as housing costs skyrocket in job-rich cities across thenation, that door to opportunity is swinging shut. No place has felt this more acutely than the San Francisco Bay Area, where the mansions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: "Engineering is a broad field that provides many different opportunities for creating, discovering, and problem solving. Engineers use math and science skills to do work that changes the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TODLoughery, John.
Summary: "After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a Communist sympathizer, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for almost fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic, political radical, and a rebel who courted controversy, she attracted three generations of admirers. Day went to jail challenging the draft and the war in Vietnam. She was critical of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio DayVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Myers 1982
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.J. Bender Pub. 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 2000
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Summary: During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine and Wonder 2022