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Cooper, Anderson

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B VANDERBILT COO

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Weir, Alison

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Hilliam, David.

Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HIL

Simeti, Mary Taylor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.804 SIM

Snyder, Laura J.

Summary: Traces the influential friendship of William Whewell, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and Richard Jones, citing their pivotal contributions to a significant array of scientific achievements throughout the mid-nineteenth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil Snyder

Regan, Geoffrey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.014 REG

Lerner, Gerda

Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LER

Kertzer, David I.

Summary: Draws on previously unknown documents from the Vatican archives to detail a plot on the part of Pope Pius IX and his successor, Leo XIII, to block the unification of Italy and to seize control of Rome and the Papal States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.63 KER

Alexander, Caroline

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 996.18 ALE

Hough, Richard Alexander

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HOU

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Penman, Sharon Kay

Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

McNeur, Catherine

Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCN

Robinson, Andrew

Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROB

Preus, Margi.

Summary: In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015

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

Griffith, Evan

Summary: The biography of Jeanne Villepreux-Power whose curiosity about undersea life led her to pioneer the use of glass tanks for research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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

Roesser, Marie

Summary: "The impact of the Norman Conquest in England can't be overstated. After William of Normandy conquered the Anglo-Saxons in 1066, the very culture of England changed, from the social structure to the written language. This carefully researched and accessible volume explains the Normans' strategy, significant events on and off the battlefield, and the key figures to know about this momentous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.02 ROE

Leopardi, Giacomo

Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEO

Kiernan, Denise

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 KIE

Ostler, Catherine

Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OST

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023

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Brouwer, Sigmund

Summary: Looks at the disappearance of the John Franklin Arctic Expedition, in which two ships searching for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic vanished.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.1904 BRO

Pernoud, Régine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. 1998

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Marshall, Megan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAR

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