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Blues (Music) Blues (Music) 1931-1940 Fire prevention Forest fires History Forest fires United States History Juvenile literature Forest fires United States Prevention and control History Juvenile literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Old-time music Pirates Juvenile literature Television playsGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 GILGilbert, Martin
Summary: In 1952, the year this volume opens, the population of the world was approaching 3,000 million (three billion). In the second half of the century it had more than doubled, to six billion, of whom 1,000 million live in China and at least 950 million in India. Merely to maintain life at a minimum level had become a struggle for at least a quarter of the governments of the world. The refugee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 GilbeGilbert, Martin
Summary: At 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo, the twentieth century could be said to have been born. The repercussions of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- Emperor Franz Josef's nephew and heir apparent -- by a Bosnian Serb are with us to this day. The immediate aftermath of that act was war. Global in extent, it would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 GILGilbert, Martin
Summary: The author "traces Israel's history from the struggles of its pioneers in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Along the way, he describes the defining moments in the history of the Jewish people, among them the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947; and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 GILGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stoddart 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.08 GILGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owl 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4272 GILGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorset Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911.47 GILGilbert, Martin
Contents: First steps to iniquity -- 1933 : the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the Nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- "The seeds of a terrible vengeance" -- September 1939 : the trapping of Polish Jewry -- "Blood of innocents" -- 1940 : "a wave of evil" -- War in the West : terror in the East -- January-June 1941 : the spreading net -- "It cannot happen!" -- "A crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 GILGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GILHalter, Roman.
Summary: A Holocaust survivor's account of his six-year journey through the enclaves of Nazi Europe describes how Hitler's armies forced him to become the local SS chief's slave, the deaths of his family and schoolmates, and his escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HALMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Describes the conditions in the textile industry in the early 20th century behind the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company that led to the death of many young women, and explains its impact on the labor movement and on society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MARMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MARMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORMarrin, Albert
Summary: In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.9 MARMarrin, Albert
Summary: In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616 MARMarrin, Albert
Summary: "Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARMarrin, Albert
Summary: Packed with dramatic stories and compelling photos, this look at the most destructive wildfires in American history teaches us about the past and shows a better way forward to fight forest fires in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: A fast-paced account of the life and times of the man who became the first president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WASHINGTON MARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLContents: CD #1: K.C. blues ; Cannon ball blues / (Frank Hutchison) -- Leaving home ; If the river was whiskey / (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Duplin County blues / (Cauley Family) -- Sweet Sarah blues ; Frankie Dean / (Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton) -- A darkey's wail / (Riley Puckett) -- Johnson City blues / (Clarence Green) -- Mistreated blues / (the Carolina Buddies) -- Haunted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993