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Summary: Ernie Davis was an All-American on the football gridiron and a man of integrity off the field. A multi-sport high school star in Elmira, New York, Davis went on to Syracuse University, where as a sophomore he led his team to an undefeated season and a national championship in 1959 and earned his nickname: the Elmira Express. Two seasons later, he became the first black athlete to be awarded the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 796.332 DAVIS, ERNIE GalRoser, Mark C.
Summary: "After the death of his son, the author kept his sanity by writing, as he wrestled with questions as profound as life itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 ROSPlumb, Robert C.
Summary: "This multi-layered biography examines five remarkable women who made important contributions to the Union cause at various stages before, during, and following the defining years of the American Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 PLUKennedy, Kerry
Summary: "Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.922 KENTwombly, Robert C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.924 WRIRoper, Robert
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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 ROPKane, Robert L.
Contents: Background -- The stroke -- Rehabilitation -- Assisted living -- The dementia unit -- Nursing home -- Doctors, other medical personnel, and hospitals -- Informal care -- The roads not taken -- End of life -- What kind of long-term care do we want? -- What can we do about it?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 KANSneden, Robert Knox
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 SNERogers, 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 ROGGallagher, Eddie
Summary: On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher--a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq--was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballast Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, EDDIE GALGallagher, Jim
Summary: A biography of the wealthy Spaniard who came to the New World to seek glory and who was the first European to reach the Mississippi River in 1541.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DESOTO GALGallagher, Siobhán
Summary: "Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher's humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. "I'm proud of the person I've become because I fought to become her." At the age of 30, Siobhán Gallagher looks back on her teenage years struggling with anxiety and diet culture, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, SIOBHAN GALGallagher, Tim.
Summary: The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, TIM GALGallagher, Brigid.
Summary: A biography on Langston Hughes, the American poet and playwright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGGallagher, Winifred
Summary: "A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great Plains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 GALGroberg, 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 GROGallagher, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Publishing, Ltd. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 974.7104 GALBufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 BUF1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 BUF
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 BUF
Rembert, Winfred
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REMBERT, WINFRED REMEdwards, Roberta.
Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who became the forty-fourth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBAEdwards, Roberta.
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEORipert, Eric.
Summary: "Before he earned his third Michelin star at his iconic restaurant, Le Bernardin, the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef of the Year, became a regular guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, even before he knew how to make a proper omelet, Eric Ripert was a young boy in the South of France who felt that his world had come to an end. At the age of five, his parents went through a bitter divorce....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPERT, ERIC RIPGraham, Adeline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.411 GRAOld, Wendie C.
Summary: Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2002