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How I changed the worldFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "Discover how Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, who was severely injured in a bus accident at age 18, taught herself to paint and became known for her striking self-portraits"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRIFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANTreuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BOUDeCurtis, Anthony
Summary: "The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REED, LOU DECDeCurtis, Anthony
Summary: Just a few years after the singer's death comes the thrilling, provocative story of his complex life. An acclaimed Rolling Stone contributor, Anthony DeCurtis interviewed Reed extensively and knew him well. With unparalleled access to Reed's friends, family, and dozens of other intimate relations, DeCurtis brings Reed's story compellingly alive and deepens listeners' understanding of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REED, LOU DECMasters, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SENESH, HANNAH MASMcCann, Anthony
Summary: In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the high desert of eastern Oregon. Encamped in the shadowlands of the republic, insisting that the Federal government had no right to own public land, the occupiers were seen by a divided country as either dangerous extremists dressed up as cowboys, or as heroes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 MCCAnthony, Carmelo
Summary: "From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a raw and inspirational memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore-a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTHONY, CARMELO ANTBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5112 BOUDaniels, Anthony
Summary: Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best. Now, for the very first time, Anthony Daniels will tell C-3PO's story in its entirety, from seeing the first concept images to the early stages of the final film in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX, and in the process, will also tell his own. This includes his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANIELS, ANTHONY DANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DANIELS DANDePalma, Anthony
Summary: "Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. Inhis new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 DEPSadler, Anthony
Summary: "On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 SADSummers, Anthony
Summary: "We thought we knew the story well: On December 7, 1941, 2,403 Americans died when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, devastating the nation and precipitating entry into World War II. In the aftermath, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command, accused of dereliction of duty, and publicly disgraced. The fact was, however, that--through sheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 SUMSwofford, Anthony.
Summary: Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWOFFORD, ANTHONY SWOEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER THE GREAT EVEMoll, Anthony
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age-story set against the backdrop of the U.S. military during the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era, this memoir recounts what it was like for a punk, nerdy, left-leaning poor boy from Nevada to explore his bisexuality while facing war and changing ideals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOLL, ANTHONY MOLBailey, Anthony
Summary: The story of Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer is told against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Dutch culture in the seventeenth century and offers a portrait of Vermeer's life, his artistic career, and his influence on the history of Western art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERMEER, JOHANNES BAIBrowne, Anthony
Summary: The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 708 BROEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERO EVEEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations for all of Western history to follow. Yet despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS EveIanni, Anthony
Summary: "'They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of.' Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play for the Michigan State Spartans. Centered:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Lightning Books 2021