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Baseball United States History 20th century Dementia Patients Gibson, Bob 1935- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) McLain, Denny Political and social views Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain Elizabeth 1900-2002 United States VI, King of Great Britain George 1895-1952 Windsor, House ofLee, Carol Ann.
Summary: A portrait of Anne Frank's father discusses his privileged youth, arranged marriage, experiences in the concentration camp, decision to publish Anne's diary, and relationship with the secret annex's betrayer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEESmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIMoser, Barry
Summary: "Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MOSER, BARRY MOSAckroyd, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ACKRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMarkel, Howard
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 MARCanedy, Dana.
Summary: In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fianc,̌ a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KINJohnson, Keyshawn
Summary: The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946. The Forgotten First chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come. More than a year before Jackie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 JOHAmoroso, Cynthia.
Summary: A brief introduction to the life and accomplishments of the Norwiegan explorer Lief Eriksson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ERIKSSON KLISevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANSchultz Nicholson, Lorna
Summary: "The biography of Canadian Joey Moss, a man born with Down syndrome who worked with the NHL Edmonton Oilers hockey team, and was an inspiration for neurodiverse people and an advocate for inclusivity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHBailey, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.46 BAIScott, Janny
Summary: "Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT, ROBERT MONTGOMERY SCOLogue, Mark.
Summary: Presents the life of the Australian speech therapist who helped the English king, George VI, overcome a lifelong speech disorder and become an eloquent leader of his people during the difficult days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 941.084 LOGDeRose, Chris (Christopher)
Summary: "The incredible, untold story of the WWII vets who overthrew their corrupt hometown government--the only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence. Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. On Election Day, Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 DERMoyers, Bill D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 MOYPappu, Sridhar
Summary: "The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PAPMuir, Robin
Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.082 MUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUIFoley, 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 FOLMurphy, Frank D.
Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FRANK D. MURMatthews, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebird Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.14 MatthBlair, Tony
Summary: Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour's history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010