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African American civil rights workers African Americans Civil rights Amazon River Valley Description and travel Civil rights workers Natural history Amazon River Valley Presidents United States Biography Rain forests Amazon River Valley Roosevelt River (Brazil) Description and travel Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) United StatesBellard, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BELChrisp, Peter.
Summary: Explores the life and times of Columbus and his discovery of the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2001
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Summary: "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 822.3 ChrVollard, Ambroise
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 VOLGillard, Julia
Summary: "In conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and explores the barriers to women's participation in politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 GILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business GillardLeachman, Cloris.
Summary: Film and television darling Leachman tells her life story through the challenges of her stellar career all while raising five children. She also discusses her many famous friends in the entertainment industry as well as in the political arena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEACHMAN, CLORIS LEABallard, Robert D.
Summary: "Oceanographer and marine biologist Robert D. Ballard looks back on a long and storied life that includes accomplishments ranging from discovering new life-forms to finding the wreck of the Titanic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALLARD, ROBERT D, BALBrand, Christo
Summary: After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON BRADirie, Waris.
Summary: Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie recounts her life, from her roots as a desert nomad in Somalia, her escape from an arranged marriage, her modeling career, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virago 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.152 DIRIE, WARIS DIRLeachman, Cloris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LEACHMAN, CLORIS LEAGalland, Leo
Summary: This book tells of the death of Leo Galland's son Christopher at the age of 22, the direct visual evidence Christopher showed him that our souls do go on, and the communications he received from Christopher's spirit that dramatically changed Leo's understanding of life and its meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 GALMillard, Candice
Summary: "At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 968.04 MILCarns, Ted.
Summary: Ted and Kathy Carns are living a 21st century success story of zero waste, total recycling and astonishing inventiveness. Their five-acre home in western Pennsylvania is a warm, inviting showcase of self-reliant living. They have all the comforts of modern life, from flat screen TV to morning smoothies from their solar powered blender.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynn's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CARChait, Jonathan
Summary: "Jonathan Chait ... digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts-- economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights-- to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 CHAFaris, Anna
Summary: The popular actress shares funny stories about her misadventures with romance to offer offbeat advice on navigating the bizarre, chaotic, and ultimately worthwhile challenges of finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARIS, ANNA FARWimberly, Ronald
Summary: "A soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULLARD, EUGENE WIMMillard, Bart
Summary: "The captivating story behind the bestselling single in the history of Christian music--and the man who wrote the song. MercyMe's crossover hit, "I Can Only Imagine," has touched millions of people around the world. But few know about the pain, redemption, and healing that inspired it. Now Bart Millard, award-winning recording artist and lead singer of MercyMe, shares how his dad's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio MillardLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardMillard, Candice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 918.113 MillardMillard, Candice
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War. At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for parliament. He believed that to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 968 MILMillard, Candice
Summary: "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the nineteenth century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe--and extend their colonial empires. Two British men--Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke--were sent by the Royal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022