Stabler, David
Summary: Sixteen "true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes, from Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle)"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANNKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KERHaining, Peter.
Summary: Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 TODD, SWEENEY HAIHeaton, Patricia
Summary: "Patricia Heaton knows what it's like to stage a second act and navigate pivotal transitions in life. When Heaton's children left the nest, she found herself in a new and unfamiliar stage of life, compelling her to evaluate which direction to take next. She discovered she had the time to pursue passions that were previously placed on hold, both personally and professionally. She made her move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon &Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help HeatonPeyton, J. Lewis (John Lewis)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 PeytoLansing, Alfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 LANLeyson, Leon
Summary: Traces the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, who was the youngest child in his family and possibly the youngest of the hundreds of Jews rescued by Oskar Schindler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Leyson 2013Bayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Seeds 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MERMerton, Thomas
Contents: v. 1. Run to the mountain / edited by Patrick Hart -- v. 2. Entering the silence / edited by Jonathan Montaldo -- v. 3. A search for solitude / edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham -- v. 4. Turning toward the world / edited by Victor A. Kramer -- v. 5. Dancing in the water of life / edited by Robert E. Daggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERPerron, Cam
Summary: "The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition andcompensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3576 PERPerson, Charles
Summary: "A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil RightsMovement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERSON, CHARLES PERJordan-Fenton, Christy
Summary: "The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POKJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANRouechGe, Berton
Contents: Stapleton, Nebraska -- Welch, West Virginia -- Hermann, Missouri -- Crystal City, Texas --Corydon, Indiana -- Pella, Iowa -- Hope, Arkansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ROUDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUNMarable, Manning
Summary: An authoritative biography of Malcolm X draws on new research to trace his life from his troubled youth through his involvement in the Nation of Islam, his activism in the world of Black Nationalism, and his assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin Group 2011
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Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELTON, TOM FELMurphy, Mannie
Summary: "What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MURPoston, McCracken
Summary: Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 POSSeaton, Bill.
Summary: "Public relations man Bill Seaton describes his fascinating experiences during his tenure at the world famous San Diego Zoo."--Cover [p. 4]
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Publisher / Publication Date: SP Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590.7 SEAManning, Chelsea
Summary: While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANNING, CHELSEA MANMillard, Candice
Summary: "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the nineteenth century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe--and extend their colonial empires. Two British men--Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke--were sent by the Royal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022