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Coming of age HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler) 1922-1991 New York (N.Y.) Biography New York (State) New York Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887 Slaves Small, Elijah -1842 United States United States. Navy. Court-martial (Mackenzie : 1843)Turner, O. (Orsamus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Brunner 1976
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 974.78 TURSalter, Edwin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3749 SalteSnow, 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 SNOPerry, Kenneth A.
Contents: v. 1. Articles 1-700, October 1847-February 1850 -- v. 2. Articles 701-1100, compiled from February 1850-September 1862 -- v. 3. Articles 1101-1550, compiled from October 1862-October 1873 -- v. 4. Articles 1551-2141, compiled from September 1867-August 1878, with supplemental articles, 2142-2161s, and 2500-2504.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1999
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 FITCHWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 DULNeshama, Rivvy
Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEABell, Laura
Summary: In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELSylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gresham Pub. 1998
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 974.748 SYLGardner, Mark L.
Summary: Draws on primary sources to recreate Sheriff Pat Garrett's manhunt for Billy the Kid, the Wild West's most notorious outlaw, and offers a dual biography of the two legendary larger-than-life figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1552 GARGriswold, 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 GRIFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H.R. Page & Co. 1978
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Ref 977.464 TraverseCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377464 TRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA1 available in Reference Office, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA
Oomen, 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 OomenDuncan, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 DUNSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRONorris, J. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NORGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "Discover how pigeons were trained for use in World Wars I and II. Learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2024
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Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUArsenault, Kerri
Summary: "A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020