Holler, Anne.
Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOLCollet, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 COLHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HELHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HELSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POEAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALISeierstad, Asne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7103 SEIDuncan, Arne
Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUNHosler, Jay
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HOS (Graphic Novel)Aline
Summary: Sequel to: The Spy Wore Red. The memoirs of Aline, Countess of Romanones who is called out of semiretirement by the CIA to uncover a highly placed NATO mole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ALIHohler, Robert T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 HOHHolzer, Harold (EDT)
Summary: A volume of writings on the sixteenth president includes works of fiction, history, and poetry by figures ranging from Churchill and Grant to Tolstoy and Twain, in a collection that offers insight into the ways in which American history and culture have contributed to the sixteenth president's legendary persona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM LINAngel, Ann
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1992
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PASTEUR ANGHommer, Ed.
Summary: Ed Hommer discusses his life as an air pilot and mountaineer, how he and a fellow mountain climber survived for four nights with no supplies after their plane crashed on Mount McKinley, his recovery from the episode, life as an amputee, and recent climb of Mount McKinley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HOMGeller, Danielle
Summary: "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GELLER , DANIELLE GELHelfer, Andrew.
Summary: Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little's extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 XHelfer, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, RONALD HELBeller, Elizabeth
Summary: "The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren, the magnitude of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 AREHolley, Santi Elijah
Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLHelfer, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.757 HELHolleran, Leslie
Summary: "After leading the Phoenix Suns to the 2021 NBA Finals, guard Devin Booker signed a contract with the team that will pay him more than 200 million dollars by 2028. Explore his life and career"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOHalter, Roman.
Summary: A Holocaust survivor's account of his six-year journey through the enclaves of Nazi Europe describes how Hitler's armies forced him to become the local SS chief's slave, the deaths of his family and schoolmates, and his escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HALHoobler, Dorothy.
Summary: "The Monsters tells the story of the real-life characters surrounding the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Drawing on private diaries, personal letters, and contemporary accounts, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a spectacular narrative of artistic creation and personal destruction. They reveal not just the true origins of two of the most famous monsters in popular culture, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006