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Atomic bomb victims Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Kühn-Leitz, Elsie 1903-1985 Presidents' spouses United States Biography Juvenile literature Sacco, Nicola 1891-1927 Trials, litigation, etc Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921 Shakur, Tupac 1971-1996 Trials (Murder) Vanzetti, Bartolomeo 1888-1927 Trials, litigation, etc Yasui, SachikoSachs, Curt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACSachs, Lloyd
Summary: T Bone Burnett offers the first critical appreciation of Burnett s wide-ranging contributions to American music, his passionate advocacy for analog sound, and the striking contradictions that define his maverick artistry. Lloyd Sachs highlights all the important aspects of Burnett s musical pursuits, from his early days as a member of Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Revue and his collaboration with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNETT, T BONE SACSachs, Dana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SACSachs, Harvey
Summary: "Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality? In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music-works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACCachin, Olivier
Summary: Shares brief biographies of forty influential black musicians, including James Brown, The Fugees, and Rihanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782.42 CACGupta, Prachi
Summary: Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on--and defeat--a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OCASIO-CORTEZ, ALEXANDRIAGRUKoul, Scaachi
Summary: "In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOUL, SCAACHI KOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOUL KOUSahai, Supriya
Summary: "This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science. Did you know that the technology behind cell phones was based on an idea developed during World War II by the Hollywood star Heddy Lamar to prevent the enemy intercepting radio messages? The computer and other electronic devices have changed life dramatically over the last 70 years-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SAHSanche, Heather
Summary: "In this charming tale for kids, the classic life story of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is told along beautiful illustrations. The book goes through his childhood to his enlightenment, chronicling the ups and downs he faced along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Kids, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUDStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAŌdachi, Kazuo
Summary: An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who, in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ODACHI, KAZUO ODAStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STARobinson, Staci
Summary: "The first and only Estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKUR, TUPAC ROBSacco, Joe.
Summary: "From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 SACFlorio, John
Summary: Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 345.73 FLOStelson, Caren Barzelay
Summary: "Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YASSachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)
Contents: East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe -- South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic -- West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier -- North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.09 SACAcho, Emmanuel
Summary: "For awkward questions white and non-black parents don't know how to answer, this is an essential guide to help support communication on how to dismantle racism amongst the youngest generation"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.8 ACHColby, Sasha
Summary: "A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother's survival of Hitler's forced labor camps. Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2023
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Summary: "It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook--and eat--a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became more determined than ever to find peace and elevate her life through the prism of food and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, SASHA MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARTIN MARSacks, Oliver
Summary: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.9 SACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SACKS, OLIVER SACSlahi, Mohamedou Ould.
Summary: "This is the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 SLAHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAWALHA, SIREEN HERAppelt, Kathi
Summary: A biography of Lady Bird Johnson who, as the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, reminded citizens about the importance of conserving natural resources and promoted the beautification of cities and highways by planting wildflowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005