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Boone, Daniel 1734-1820 Boone, Daniel 1734-1820 Juvenile literature Fields, Mary b. ca. 1832 Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Kentucky Juvenile literature Kentucky Biography Juvenile literature Kentucky Discovery and exploration Juvenile literature Novelists, American 20th century Biography Pioneers Pioneers Kentucky Biography Juvenile literatureDaniel, Mary-Alice
Summary: "Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANIEL, MARY-ALICE DANSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOORicca, Brad
Summary: " 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, O RICMacDonald, Betty Bard
Summary: The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACDONALD, BETTY BARD MACCarlomagno, Mary.
Summary: Documents a woman's quest to rid herself of material and emotional excess, sharing her monthly account of taking control, breaking free of needless possessions, and simplifying her stressful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Summary: In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 DAUHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOSantella, Andrew.
Summary: A biography of Daniel Boone, focusing on his efforts as a pioneer and trailblazer during America's westward expansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 SANBrown, Daniel James
Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Summary: Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BOONE KOZKarr, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDPiper, Karen Lynnea
Summary: "A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PiperStabler, David
Summary: Sixteen "true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes, from Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle)"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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Summary: The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her computer to communicate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 FLEKeneally, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SICLunden, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUNDEN, JENNIFER LUNPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 798.8 PAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 798.8 PAURamsey, Edwin Price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5359 RAMMiller, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Press 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB FIELDS MILBarr, Nevada.
Summary: The author shares her journey from arrogance and atheism toward humility and a sense of being part of something greater than herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Dan Dye tells the story of his dog, Gracie, an albino Great Dane who chose him to be her owner, and discusses how Gracie's eating disorder spurred him to begin baking cookies for the dog, which eventually led to the creation of the successful Three Dog Bakery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.73 DYEClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002