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Cromwell, Samuel -1842 Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell 1803-1848 Mallory, George 1886-1924 Mount Everest Expedition (1924) Mountaineering Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) Mountaineers Great Britain Biography Oceana County (Mich.) Biography Small, Elijah -1842 Spencer, Philip 1824-1842 United States. Navy. Court-martial (Mackenzie : 1843)Griswold, Mac K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRIRaban, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.982 RABPoston, McCracken
Summary: Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8784 RAYDavidson, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprint Co. 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3758 DavidHudgins, Phil
Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDRagsdale, Bruce A.
Summary: "George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation's prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor's inefficiency as much as itsinhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAGLevy, Janey
Summary: Mount Vernon, George Washingtons residence, holds a special place in US history and in the hearts of many Americans. But its history of slavery has remained largely hidden until recently. Thats because its difficult to accept the contradiction of a Founding Father who fought for liberty, but engaged in the practice of slavery. This thought-provoking volume uses the discoveries of archaeologists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8823 BLACarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARHerman, Gail
Summary: Recounts the journey made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey to the peak of Mount Everest, the highest location on Earth, highlighting how they used teamwork to make it to the top.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.54 HERAnker, Conrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 ANKRaban, Jonathan
Summary: "A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RABHemmleb, Jochen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HEMMessner, Reinhold
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 MESTzemach Lemmon, Gayle.
Summary: The true account of Kamila Sidiqi who, when her father and brother were forced to flee Kabul, became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own and held her family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1 SEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SEDIQI, KAMELA LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SIDIQI LEMWarnock, Raphael G.
Summary: "On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and now as a Senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can at once call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARNOCK, RAPHAEL G. WARConradi, Peter.
Summary: Between June 9th and 12th 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York, during what was the first ever visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. Coming at a time when Britain desperately needed U.S. help in the conflict that now seemed inevitable, the meeting was front page news on both sides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 CONDavis, Wade.
Summary: Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I redemption efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALLORY, GEORGE DAVOomen, Anne-Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OOMEN, ANNE-MARIE OOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word OomenKuipers, Dean
Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUIPERS, DEAN KUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KUIPERS KUISnow, Richard
Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNODuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Combining poetry, prose and stunning illustrations to shine light on a forgotten slice of history, this civil rights book examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement of the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022