Calabro, Marian.
Summary: Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.403 CALMartines, Lauro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 MARSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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Summary: Tia Toomey, the world's fittest woman, has won the CrossFit Games an incredible six years in a row and is undeniably a true warrior. She has also trained for the Winter Olympics in bobsledding, competed in the Summer Olympics in weightlifting, and was a Commonwealth Games gold medalist. She is, in short, one of the most accomplished and dominant athletes in human history. But for Tia physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 TOOFlair, Ric
Summary: "Ric Flair is a 16-time World Champion and two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee. His four-decades long career is recognized as one of the greatest of all time, but with success comes a price ... His life away from the cameras includes personal struggles, controversy, and family tragedy. Through his bond with [his daughter] Charlotte, he's becoming the father he needs to be while rediscovering the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLABlair, Tony
Summary: Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour's history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIR, TONY BLAMcLaird, James D.
Contents: Princeton, Missouri, 1856-1864 -- To Montana and Wyoming, 1864-1874 -- To black hills expedition of 1875 -- With crook in 1876 -- With Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, 1876 -- Dime novel heroine, 1877 -- Life in Dakota, 1878-1881 -- Following the northern Pacific, 1882-1884 -- Life in Wyoming, 1884-1894 -- A Deadwood celebrity, 1895-1896 -- Life in Montana, 1896-1901 -- The Pan-American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALAMITY JANE MCLKramer, Clara
Summary: Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry teenager during the Holocaust who, along with her family, was rescued by righteous gentiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KRAMER, CLARA KRAGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRAHarman, Claire.
Summary: "A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE HARHarman, Claire.
Summary: In Jane's Fame, Claire Harman gives us the complete biography--of both the author and her lasting cultural influence--making this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works, and remarkably potent fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 HARSarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARCaro, Ina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 CARBensen, Clara
Summary: "Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel BensenParkes, Clara
Summary: "Renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes uses the metaphor of knitting to tell her own story via twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats. 30,000 first printing,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAVERMAN, BLAIR BRAColomba, Elizabeth
Summary: "Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLThrop, Claire
Summary: There's more to ice dancing than beautiful costumes, awesome music, and the ability to skate. Learn the rules of the sport as well as the steps it takes to become an unstoppable athlete on ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.91 THRTomalin, Claire
Summary: The biographer reflects upon her own life, from discovering books as a form of escapism during her parents' divorce to mingling in the London literary scene of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOMALIN, CLAIRE TOMClary-Aldringen, Alfons
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLALlewellyn, Claire.
Summary: A collection of brief profiles and pictures of nearly thirty saints, descriptions of different kinds of angels, profiles of three specific angels, and a calendar of feast days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270 LLEMessud, Claire
Summary: "A glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESTomalin, Claire.
Summary: "A portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to challenge the sexual and religious conventions of his time." -Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.09 TOMBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016