Yelchin, Eugene

Summary: "Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

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Jarecki, Eugene.

Summary: In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008

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Cernan, Eugene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 CER

Keating, Jess

Summary: At 9 years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie knew better and set out to prove it. Despite many obstacles in her path, Eugenie was able to study the creatures she loved so much. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 KEA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Science Keating

Zimmerman, Eilene

Summary: "Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIMMERMAN, EILENE ZIM

Bair, Julene

Summary: "Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIR, JULENE BAI

Yellin, Emily

Summary: Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of American women's experience during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004

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Fluckey, Eugene B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1997

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 FLU

Sylla, Richard Eugene

Summary: "Meet the founding father who made America modern... An immigrant from the West Indies, he played a crucial part in the political, legal, and economic development of the new nation: He served as Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War; he helped establish the Constitution; he wrote most of The Federalist Papers; and he modernized America’s fledgling finances,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER SYL

Clark, Eugene Franklin.

Summary: Chronicles the two-week, covert, Korean War mission of then-Lieutenant Clark to obtain vital intelligence in the wake of firefights, night raids, hand-to-hand combat, and a small naval battle.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9042 CLA

Bidlack, Russell E. (Russell Eugene)

Summary: Details the life of Ann I. Allen, Ann Arbor's first lady.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan 1998

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Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)

Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLE

Wimberly, Ronald

Summary: "A soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULLARD, EUGENE WIM

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)

Summary: "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John S....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, HARRIET JAC

Barretta, Gene

Summary: When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a secret: a garden of his own. Here, he rolled dirt between his fingers to check if plants needed more rain or sun. He protected roots through harsh winters, so plants could be reborn in the spring. He trimmed flowers, spread soil, studied life cycles. And it was in this very place that George’s love of nature sprouted into something...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio Carver

Barretta, Gene

Summary: Before Steven Spielberg made films, he watched them. Naturally inventive with a vivid imagination, he was known for creating stories inspired by the world around him. Films and the magic they contained became an escape from the bullying and antisemitism he received, and from tension in his parents' marriage. Baretta captures the unique ways Spielberg's memories influenced his career and helped...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Wojciechowski, Gene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 WOJ

Contents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BES

Barretta, Gene.

Summary: Presents an introduction to the inventions of Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's most beloved figures, credited with introducing bifocals, daylight savings time, lightning rods, and the establishment of post offices.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009

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Logsdon, Gene.

Summary: A cancer survivor and farmer writes about the struggles of his childhood and life as a parent, the resilience of nature, and nature's cycles of life and death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub Co 2014

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Keith, Phil

Summary: The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019

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Simons, Lisa M. B.

Summary: "In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SIM

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Barretta, Gene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006

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Mustain, Gene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992

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