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Wiley books for writers seriesTindall, Gillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 TINGordon, Lyndall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIOT, T. S. GORGordon, Lyndall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE GORFitzgerald, Randall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu FitzgeraldRandall, Alice
Summary: "Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 ELIGordon, Lyndall.
Summary: Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DICKINSON, EMILY GORCrandall, Chauncey W.
Summary: A cardiologist shares his experiences of the supernatural and the power of prayer to describe how he believes God intervenes in daily life to make the sick well and bring the dead back to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 CRARandall, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.593 RANRandall, Julian
Summary: "The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather. Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2024
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Summary: "A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world. Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.7 SULMandell, Judy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MANRandall, David K.
Summary: From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.92 RANRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNRandall, Willard Sterne
Summary: "In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America's most consequential document with a curious note, pledging "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 RANRandall, Willard Sterne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER RANBalmer, Randall Herbert
Summary: Discusses how the progressive principles of a born-again Evangelical Christian peanut farmer, which included racial justice, women's rights and concern for the plight of the poor, won the presidency in 1976.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY BALKendall, Mikki
Summary: "A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get aneducation, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is a fun and fascinating graphic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 305.42 KENCrandall, Chauncey W.
Summary: How a doctor's glimpses of eternity confirmed everything he believed about God, suffering, life on earth, and what happens after death. Dr. Chauncey Crandall knows his patients well. When they are dying, he sits at the bedside with them and holds their hands. He prays with them. Sometimes he can feel what they feel and see what they see. At other times his patients have near-death experiences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 CRAJarrar, Randa
Summary: A gay, Muslim, overweight, Arab-American woman describes her road trip from California to Connecticut to reclaim her autonomy and explore everything she has survived in life, schooling a rest-stop racist and destroying Confederate flags in the desert along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JARRAR, RANDA JARRasmussen, Randall L.
Summary: It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell's Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American flyers were sent to the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17B. In Stalag the American prisoners of war had to deal with the harsh rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunstone Press 2003
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 940.5472 RASLançon, Philippe
Summary: "Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe Lançon, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCON, PHILIPPE LANKendall, Joshua C.
Summary: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WebsterKendall, Joshua C.
Contents: Prologue: the sense and sensibility of James Garfield: "It is a most intense and innocent passion" -- The preoccupied: "I should like to have your opinion on it" -- Playful pals: "My father likes snakes" -- Double-dealing dads: "You know such things happen on plantations" -- Tiger dads: "I could feel nothing but sorrow and shame in your presence" -- The grief-stricken: "I always see my boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016