Rabb, Theodore K.
Summary: The stories of fifteen men and women, some familiar, others less so, that demonstrate the profound transformations of society that cut across and remade the realms of human conduct and custom and that are a part of the era with the name meaning "rebirth."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 920.04 RABRoss, Theodora
Summary: "Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it's estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 ROSKallifatides, Theodor
Summary: "A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time. In this slim memoir, Kallifatides struggles to come to terms with the weight of writer's block and understand the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work. But he also comments on the worrying trends in contemporary Europe and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece. Finally, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALLIFATIDES, THEODOR KALLuckinbill, Laurence
Summary: "Overflowing with his love of nature, adventure, and justice, Teddy illustrates the life of a man for whom being known as one of America's greatest presidents is but one of his notable accomplishments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUCCanot, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 382.44 CANChase, Theodore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1997
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 736.5 ChaseDreiser, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.72 DRERoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 ROORoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROORoosevelt, Theodore
Summary: In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of everyday people, rather than in accounts of the famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.09 ROORoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOShackley, Theodore.
Summary: "But who was the real Ted Shackley? In Spymaster, he has told the story of his entire remarkable career for the first time. With the assistance of fellow former CIA officer Richard A. Finney, he discusses the consequential posts he held in Berlin, Miami, Laos, Vietnam, and Washington, where he was intimately involved in some of the key intelligence operations of the Cold War. During his long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHACKLEY, TED SHABrady, Tim
Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE BRASorensen, Theodore C.
Summary: In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.... from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9220 SORKaramanski, Theodore J.
Summary: Overview: For much of U.S. history, the story of native people has been written by historians and anthropologists relying on the often biased accounts of European-American observers. Though we have become well acquainted with war chiefs like Pontiac and Crazy Horse, it has been at the expense of better knowing civic-minded intellectuals like Andrew J. Blackbird, who sought in 1887 to give a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACKBIRD, ANDREW J KARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 977.4 KARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native KaramanskiRapp Black, Emily
Summary: ""Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World. Since that time her life had changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAPP BLACK, EMILY RAPRapp Black, Emily
Summary: At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo's art, Rapp Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Notting Hill Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAPP BLACK, EMILY RAPP BLAKazimiroff, Theodore L.
Summary: The story of an Algonquin who was living off the land in a park in the Bronx during the 1920s. A document of the life of an extraordinary man, the last of his tribe, who lived in an untouched corner of New York City, as his ancestors had lived before him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWORipp, Victor
Summary: "An unsentimental meditation on memory and loss that recounts the author's search for a Holocaust memorial that speaks to the death of his young cousin In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin. Two months later, Alexandre was killed in Auschwitz. To try to make sense of this act, Ripp looks at it through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RIPRall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALRauch, Georg
Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAURauf, Don
Summary: Containing profiles of several of the most famous serial killers throughout history such as Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes, this in-depth analysis of the killers minds, behavior, and actions will surely intrigue any psychology student. Comprehensive text explains the life and crimes of these prolific killers from history, and a personality disorder self-assessment quiz will give readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 RAUFlorescu, Radu.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly: The fictional Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel is better known than the actual Vlad Dracula the Impaler, who ruled as prince of Wallachia for three brief periods in the mid-15th century. This study by two Boston College professors who have written other books about Dracula explores how the legend of the Transylvanian vampire arose. As a ruler, Dracula spread terror far and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VLAD III, PRINCE FLOMurphy, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000