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Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAPLaPlante, Eve.
Summary: A great niece and cousin of Louisa May Alcott draws on newly uncovered family papers to present a revisionist portrait of Louisa's relationship with her mother, discussing how Abigail May served as the intellectual and emotional center of Louisa's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY LAPMerriam, Eve
Contents: Eliza Southgate (1783-1809): schoolgirl.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): founder of the women's suffrage movement.--Maria Mitchell (1818-1889): astronomer.--Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836-1887): wife of a Confederate officer.--Arvazine Angeline Cooper (1845-1929): pioneer across the plains.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): minister and doctor.--Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): born a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GROBunting, Eve
Summary: Looks at the cart that pulled Dr. King's body through Atlanta on the day of his funeral, showing the effect he had on people and the nation at large.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE America BuntingGolden, Eve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GOLHaas, Eve
Summary: Eve Haas was just eight years old when, as a Jewish girl in a Berlin school, the Nazis' rise to power began to threaten everything and everyone she knew. Fortunately, her parents managed to get her family out of Germany and to London to start a new life. Then Eve inherited a treasured family notebook that hid an amazing secret. Warned against pursuing the truth behind the notebook, Eve set out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 HAASchaub, Eve O.
Summary: "In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic. In the process, Schaub learns some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHAUB, EVE O. SCHBrown-Waite, Eve.
Summary: Follows the author's journey from being a self-described "pampered city girl" to a Peace Corps volunteer, wife, and mother living in Ecuador and Uganda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.66 Brown-WaiteFraser, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.84 FRAEsposito, Jennifer
Summary: An actress who suffers with Celiac disease describes her journey to diagnosis and living with the condition and discusses the nonprofit foundation she created to provide information about the disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ESPOSITO, JENNIFER ESPWahls, Terry L.
Summary: "An integrative approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions by a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) whose TEDx talk is already a web sensation. Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients' ailments with drugs or surgical procedures--until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.834 WAHBaird, Mimi.
Summary: The author pieces together the story of her absent father's life, beginning with his advancements in isolating the biochemical root of manic depression, which he then began to suffer from himself, leading to years of institutionalization and confinement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIRD, PERRY BAIBecker, Helaine
Summary: Introduces the unconventional life and achievements of engineer and economist William Playfair and describes how his creative expressions in math and science became the visual bar graphs and pie charts of today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 519.5 BECWyld, Evie.
Summary: The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WYLKnausgaard, Karl Ove
Summary: The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE KNARobillard, Evie
Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020