Garrett, Kent
Summary: "The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early formof affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 GARBarretta, Gene
Summary: Before Steven Spielberg made films, he watched them. Naturally inventive with a vivid imagination, he was known for creating stories inspired by the world around him. Films and the magic they contained became an escape from the bullying and antisemitism he received, and from tension in his parents' marriage. Baretta captures the unique ways Spielberg's memories influenced his career and helped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SPIBarretta, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Invent BarrettaBarretta, Gene
Summary: When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a secret: a garden of his own. Here, he rolled dirt between his fingers to check if plants needed more rain or sun. He protected roots through harsh winters, so plants could be reborn in the spring. He trimmed flowers, spread soil, studied life cycles. And it was in this very place that George’s love of nature sprouted into something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio CarverBarretta, Gene.
Summary: Presents an introduction to the inventions of Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's most beloved figures, credited with introducing bifocals, daylight savings time, lightning rods, and the establishment of post offices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 609.2 BARKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENMcNamara, Garrett
Summary: In this memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett McNamara affectionately known as GMac set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCNAMARA, GARRETT MCNKeizer, Garret.
Summary: "In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voicesof the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373 KEIKeat, Nawuth
Summary: The gripping story of a young boy who survived the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and escaped to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.6042 KEAKert, Bernice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROCKEFELLER, ABBY KertGarnett, Angelica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pimlico 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNETT, ANGELICA GarnettGarnett, Kevin
Summary: A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star looks back on his life and career, including his decision to enter the NBA draft directly out of high school, and shares his thoughts on fame, family, racism, and spirituality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 GARGarrels, Anne
Summary: "Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 GARParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARKert, Bernice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST KERGarrett, Leah
Summary: "The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit-but whose story has gone untold until now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GARGarrett, Leslie
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELJackson, Garnet.
Summary: A simple biography of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE JACJarrett, Valerie
Summary: The longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her experiences as an Iran-born African-American woman as well as a family member, lawyer, public servant and government leader at a dynamic period in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JARRETT, VALERIE JARKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC KROKaufman, Kenn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.07 KAURussell, Gareth
Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUSKent, Zachary.
Summary: A biography of the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel industry and used much of it for philanthropic causes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CARNEGIE KENJones, Victoria Garrett.
Summary: Examines the life and actions of Pocahontas, a young Native American woman who developed a friendship with English colonist John Smith and the people of Jamestown, and who later became a Christian and married colonist John Rolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010