Colletta, John Philip

Summary: Genealogical and historical information about George F. Ring, his brother Joe and Joe's wife Barbara Ring. Joseph was born in 1832 in France and married Barbara Miller. Their children were Magdalena, Anna, Joseph, George F., John M., Peter and Michael. Joseph's brother George F. was born in 1834 in France and married Catherine Hill. The "Rolling Fork tragedy" refers to a fire that occurred...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Descent 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 COL

Gup, Ted

Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUP

Skelly, Katie

Summary: "Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2020

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKE

Currier, John J. (John James)

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Hampshire Pub. Co. 1977

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 974.459 Curri

Gup, Ted

Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.162

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUP

Wyman, Thomas Bellows

Summary: "Wyman's work, compiled over thirty years and originally published in 1879, is notable not only as a comprehensive collection of genealogies of early settlers but also as an abstract of real estate records, church records, gravestone inscriptions, and family records, thus giving us a picture of both the people and places in the town" -- Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3744 Wyman Vol. 1 (A-J)
Call number: R GEN 929.3744 Wyman Vol. 2 (K-Z)

Pringle, Laurence P.

Summary: A biography of Cynthia Moss, world-renowned elephant researcher in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, illustrated with her own photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: 599.67 PRI

Shapiro, Dani

Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, DANI SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Shapiro

Taunton, Larry.

Summary: In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER TAU

Child, Deborah M.

Summary: "In this richly illustrated biography, the author follows in the footsteps of Richard Brunton, a British grenadier who fought in the American Revolution before deserting in 1779. A trained engraver and diesinker, his primitive but charming works include some of the earliest pre-printed family registers in America. Despite his many talents and efforts, he was never able to make an honest living...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374 Child

Mattern, Joanne

Summary: Describes the early lives of Frank C. Mars and his son, Forrest, the men behind Mars candies, explains how they built their business, and discusses their later lives and the other products the company sells.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 MAT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MAT

Cheney, Lynne V.

Summary: Story of the determination and courage of Washington to lead his men to victory against all odds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 Che

Masumoto, David Mas

Summary: "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASUMOTO, DAVID MAS MAS

Finke, Michael C.

Summary: "Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models. In a brief, remarkable life, Chekhov rose from lower-class, provincial roots to become a physician, leading writer, and philanthropist, all in the face of a progressive fatal disease. In this new biography, Michael C. Finke analyzes Chekhov's major stories, plays, and nonfiction in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEKHOV, ANTON FIN

Eames, Andrew

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 EAM

Elkins-Tanton, Lindy T.

Summary: A memoir from a world-renowned planetary scientist explores her remarkable life story, the struggles she faced as a woman in the field, and her work as the leader of NASA's Psyche mission to explore the largest known metal-rich asteroid.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarpersCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELKINS-TANTON, LINDY ELK

Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN Sta

Foley, Michael S.

Summary: "Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, for huge hits like 'Ring of Fire' and 'I Walk the Line.' He's one of the best-selling musicians of all time, and his crossover appeal earned him inductions into the Country Music, Gospel Music, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame. But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASH, JOHNNY FOL

Licks

Contents: DISC v. 1: Comments from: Paul McCartney -- James Jamerson Jr. -- Will Lee -- "Chili" Ruth and Joe Weaver -- John Entwistle -- Gerald Veasley -- Phil Chen -- Martha Reeves -- Pino Palladino -- Geddy Lee -- Joe Messina -- Chuck Rainey -- Wah Wah Watson -- Philadelphia Intl. Rhythm Section -- Joe Hunter -- "Ready" Freddy Washington -- Garry Tallent -- Dennis Coffey -- Allen McGrier -- Gil Askey...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dr. Licks Pub. 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 787.87 LIC

Burke, Dolores Redmon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Burke 1988

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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.37748 B917M
Call number: R-GEN 929.377484 BUR

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.

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

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

Dobson, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 DOB Vol. 2

East, Elyssa.

Summary: An exploration of the strange, dark history of a wilderness ghost town and a brutal 25-year-old murder.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.44 EAS

Bynum, Victoria E.

Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYN