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Dunham, Cyrus Grace

Summary: "For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations--lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman--until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable. Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUNHAM, CYRUS GRACE DUN

Taylor, D. J. (David John)

Summary: "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 TAY

Burnham, Gracia.

Summary: Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.9048 BUR

Friddell, Claudia

Summary: "Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021

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

Grande, Reyna

Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRA

Abani, Chris

Summary: "In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Word Essay Abani

Stewart, Chris

Summary: Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers - he was original drummer in Genesis - to the more offbeat - a sheep shearer and circus performer - he had done it all...or almost all. So when he is offered the chance to captain a sailboat in the Greek islands one summer, something he had never done before, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 STE

Lupiano, Vincent dePaul

Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LUP

Albritton, Jane (EDT)

Contents: On our way-- and back again -- Bound for the Philippines -- Puerto Rico : memories from a battered box -- Philippines : back to school -- Afghanistan : God, president Kennedy, and me -- Tonga : far away places -- Thailand : visits with the veterans -- Philippines : stop pig! drop the flip-flop! -- Samoa : return to the land of the morning calm -- Korea : a letter to Sri Padmanabham -- India :...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 EVE

Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard)

Contents: Rescuing Jews in the south of France -- Daniel's choice -- Madeleine Dreyfus : righteous Jew -- Albert Camus' The plague -- The rescuers of Jews.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catholic University of America Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HEN

Froome, Chris

Summary: The margin of victory was stunning: four minutes and twenty seconds. The style was breathtaking: three stage wins, including a mesmerizing climb on the iconic Mont Ventoux. But the full story behind Chris Froome and his unforgettable triumph at the 100th Tour de France in 2013, which culminated under the lights of the Champs-Elysees, is even more remarkable.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014

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Tyner, Artika R.

Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYN

Starr, Emmet.

Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Starr

Triplett, Dawn.

Summary: "Brave boys were they! contains the biographies of over four hundred Civil War veterans who lived in Kalkaska County, Michigan. More than two hundred veterans are interred in Kalkaska County cemeteries, some in unmarked graves that are only now being marked with military headstones. The book chronicles the events and activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corp that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Triplett 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 TRI
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.465 TRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 973.7479 TRI

Gehl, Laura

Summary: "A picture book biography of Nancy Grace Roman, the astronomer who overcame obstacles such as weakening eyesight and teachers who did not believe astronomy was an appropriate career for a woman to lead the NASA team to build the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the empowering story of a female scientist's triumphs at a time when society discouraged women from pursuing scientific careers. It is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019

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

Harkema, Graci

Summary: A diversity, equity and inclusion expert committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their true selves traces her own path to finding her place in the world, revisiting her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in GrandRapids, Michigan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARKEMA, GRACI HAR

Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 BAI

Benham, David

Summary: "Twin brothers David and Jason Benham grew up with big dreams of baseball and an even bigger trust in God. Though they attended a small high school with no baseball field, turned down a professional offer so they could attend college together, and faced more than one missed pitch and injuries, they kept dreaming, praying together on the field, and believing in God's provision for their lives....

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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BENHAM B

Erdman, Sarah.

Summary: A Peace Corps worker offers a portrayal of an African village that stands on the brink of modernity, caught between ancient superstitions and the era of the cell phone as they struggle with AIDS and other life-threatening problems.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.68 ERD

Brown-Waite, Eve.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Follows the author's journey from being a self-described "pampered city girl" to a Peace Corps volunteer, wife, and mother living in Ecuador and Uganda.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.66 Brown-Waite

Swiller, Josh.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.94 SWI

Florio, 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 FLO

Brimner, Larry Dane

Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021

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

Lee, Tony

Summary: When Ireland suffers under the rule of Henry VIII, Grace O'Malley takes to the seas after her husband's murder and gains a reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland and confronts Queen Elizabeth I.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

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

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