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Welfare, Simon

Summary: "A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who exhausted their vast fortune buying homes around the globe where they entertained the rich and famous while also campaigning for the poor and disadvantaged. As the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, John and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.1081 WEL

Summary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019

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Flavell, Julie

Summary: "Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLA

Greene, Bob.

Summary: A highly personal true story of memory and the power of friendship from journalist Bob Greene. Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob and his four best friends--Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack--were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they met on the first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got in trouble together, learned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.1 GRE

Moran, Mollie

Summary: "True story of a feisty and fun-loving young English girl's adventures while in domestic service in the 1930's as a scullery maid, then kitchen maid and cook. Includes recipes and household cleaning tips"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORAN, MOLLIE MOR

Greene, Melissa Fay.

Summary: Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood from two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.734 GRE

Weir, Alison

Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Smith, Sally Bedell

Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMI

Burleigh, Robert

Summary: "A picture book about painter Winslow Homer's fascination with waves and the ocean"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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

Cozzens, Peter

Summary: "The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South and led to the infamous Trail of Tears, in which the government...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 COZ

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 COZ

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAR

Punch, Terrence M.

Summary: Erin's Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2008

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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. I
Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. II
Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. III
Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. IV

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Summary: American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings recounts her experiences dealing with farmhands and wildlife while managing an orange grove for thirteen years in rural Florida.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN RAW

Hazzard, Shirley

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAZ

Lacey, Robert

Summary: Starring Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill, Netflix's original series The Crown, created by Peter Morgan and growing out of his Oscar-winning movie The Queen starring Helen Mirren, paints a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show's first season is an in-depth exploration of the early years of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 LAC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Lacey

Williams, Dee

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WIL

Michaelis, Arno

Summary: Documents the story of the unlikely and powerful friendship between a Sikh and a former white supremacist in the aftermath of Wade Michael Page's murderous 2012 attack on a Wisconsin Sikh Temple, describing how they launched the Serve 2 Unite organization to promote community inclusion and fight hate crimes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MIC

Comey, James B.

Summary: "James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 COM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.2509 COM

Ehrlich, Gretel

Summary: "From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home--experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial. In The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich announced her aspiration as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EHRLICH, GRETEL EHR

Draycott, Jane (Jane Louise)

Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRA

Booker, Sheri

Summary: "Six Feet Under" meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore. Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER, SHERI BOO

Freeh, Louis J.

Summary: A former head of the FBI describes his appointment to the Bureau, efforts to overcome under-funding and outdated technical resources, and determination to reform the FBI while protecting its freedom from political interference.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 FRE

Fleming, Candace

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: " "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 FLE

Ehrlich, Gretel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 EHR

Green, Julien

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, JULIEN GRE

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