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Garfield, James A. (James Abram) 1831-1881 Garfield, James A. (James Abram) 1831-1881 Assassination Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius) 1841-1882 Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd) 1890-1946 Joyce, James 1882-1941 New Deal, 1933-1939 Perkins, Frances 1880-1965 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Friends and associates United States Economic policy 1933-1945 Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) 1888-1965O'Brien, Edna
Summary: Traduction d'une biographie publiée en 1999 aux Etats-Unis. Edna O'Brien est une importante romancière irlandaise. Son approche admirative vise à tracer un portrait à la fois "grandiose et intime" de son compatriote. L'accent est mis sur les amitiés, les révoltes et l'exil volontaire de Joyce. Autre biographie recommandée par E. O'Brien: ##James Joyce## par Richard Ellmann (Gallimard, 2 tomes)....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fides 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 O'BRMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin'sbullet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MillardBirmingham, Kevin
Contents: Nighttown -- Nora Barnacle -- the vortex -- Trieste -- Smithy of souls -- Little modernisms -- The Medici of Modernism -- Zurich -- Power and postage -- The Woolfs -- Brutal madness -- Shakespeare and Company -- Hell in New York -- The Ghost of Comstock -- Elijah is coming -- The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap -- Circe burning -- The bible of the outcasts --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 BIRHastings, Patrick
Summary: "This is a reader's guide, episode by episode, to James Joyce's notoriously difficult masterpiece Ulysses. It also offers enough original analysis and overviews of scholarly criticism to interest even seasoned Joyceans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 HASPound, Ezra
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. Corp. 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816.52 POUJarrow, Gail
Summary: "James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.84 JARWeinstein, Arnold L.
Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 WEIPerry, James M. (James Moorhead)
Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 PERAckerman, Kenneth D.
Summary: In this book Kenneth Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrous code of honor in a country struggling to emerge from the long shadow of recent war. He casts familiar Civil War figures like Ulysses S. Grant and Winfield Scott Hancock in unfamiliar roles as politicos alongside feuding machine bosses like senators Roscoe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARWels, Susan
Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 WEIKiberd, Declan.
Summary: Explores the lessons that modern readers can draw from Joyce's classic work, revealing how "Ulysses" presents a vision of a more tolerant and decent society in which the seemingly banal hero, Leopold Bloom, represents ordinary wisdom that can offer a model for living.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 KIBWeintraub, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 CAMJohnston, Dillon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 JOHMatteson, John
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MATWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOMcCarter, Jeremy
Summary: "What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCFullilove, Michael
Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FULFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXSearle, Sarah Winifred
Summary: Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOALeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEENardo, Don
Summary: Describes the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc, along with biographical information and facts about the political and social forces that led to her being burned at the stake as a witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 NardoCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohGregory, Philippa
Summary: United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2016