Ellison, Ralph.
Contents: Tuskeegee and New York, 1950-1955 -- Rome, Casablanca, and New York, 1955-1958 -- Los Angeles and New York, 1958-1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ELLBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRRogers, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purple Mountain Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.26 ROGSummary: From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit ColbertBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: "Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, WALTER F. BAIBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: A look at the president's tumultuous first four months in office examines the events he presided over, including the founding of the United Nations, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop the bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTDole, Robert J.
Summary: The former U.S. Senate Republican leader recounts his experiences of serving with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, during which he suffered a dangerous wound that resulted in a three-year struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOLE, BOB DOLDonovan, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 DONMrazek, Robert J.
Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ROPHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMSummary: "In this dazzling collection, fifteen writers explore this rich phase in essays that are profound and moving and above all, brimming with joie de vivre. This diverse array of voices--including Veronica Chambers, Meghan Daum, Kate Bolick, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Sloane Crosley, KJ Dell'Antonia, Julie Klam, Jessica Lahey, Catherine Newman, Sujean Rim, Jena Schwartz, Sophfronia Scott, Allison Winn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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Summary: A reference and companion volume to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" explores the background and underlying symbolism of Pirsig's classic work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 DISGalison, Peter
Summary: At the beginning of the 20th century, just as industry and government were anticipating the immanent coordination of time around the globe, says Galison (history of science and of physics, Harvard U.), the notion of time and the ability to coordinate two clocks at a distance, were being demolished in the nexus of physics, technology, and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529 GALEllison, Katie
Summary: "Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Born in rural Jamaica, this musician and songwriter began his career with his band, The Wailing Wailers, in 1963. The Wailers went on to spread the gospel of reggae music around the globe. Bob's distinctive style and dedication to his Rastafari beliefs became a rallying cry for the poor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: "A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher, in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing-and in a young,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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Contents: Beginnings, 1925-1941 -- Broadway, 1942-1949 -- Filmmaker, 1950-1953 -- Independence, 1954-1957 -- Theatre again, 1957-1961 -- Writer, 1962-1969 -- Later years, 1970-1988.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KAZGroberg, Florent
Summary: Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GROBERG, FLORENT GROEllison, Mark
Summary: "Over the past forty years Mark Ellison has designed and constructed some of the most stunning marvels of architecture that you've never seen. He built a staircase that the famed architect Santiago Calatrava called a masterpiece. He worked on the iconic Sky House, which Interior Design named the best apartment of the decade. He's even worked on the homes of David Bowie, Robin Williams, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery-a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021