Alkire, Jessie.
Summary: "Meet Buzz Aldrin, part of the first moon landing! Follow Aldrin's story as he graduates from West Point, served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, develops a rendezvous program for the Gemini and Apollo missions, and flies to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission. Infographics, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALDAlexander, Carol
Summary: Meet Bessie Coleman. She was the first African-American woman to earn her international pilots license. And she did so against great odds. No one in America was willing to teach a black woman to fly. Still, Bessie never gave up on her dream of becoming a world-famous aviator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLEMAN ALEChambers, Cassie
Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, CASSIE CHASummary: The first feature-length appreciation of Eva Hesse's life and work, makes superb use of the artist's voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and archival interviews with fellow artists who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVAHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLCarroll, Leslie
Summary: Leslie Carroll provides context to Harry and Meghan's romance by leading listeners through centuries of Britain's rule-breaking royal marriages, as well as the love matches that were never permitted to make it to the altar, followed by a never-before-seen glimpse into the little-known life of the woman bringing the royal family into the 21st century and her dazzling, thoroughly modern romance...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3 920 CARTomalin, Claire.
Summary: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DICKENS, CHARLES TOMSummary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAUKuipers, Alice
Summary: "Carley Allison was an up-and-coming young figure skater and singer who died tragically at the age of 18 of a cancer so rare there were only seven cases in the world. In this book, you will come to know Carley in her own words and in the words of the people who knew and loved her. Award-winning author Alice Kuipers weaves the memories of Carley's friends, family, and boyfriend with the blog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KCP Loft 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ALLMilani, Alice
Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURDavis, Margaret Leslie
Summary: "The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 093 DAVWalker, Alice
Summary: "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage - a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
Summary: When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HindmanSummary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISTaylor, Maureen Alice.
Summary: This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2010
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 1Call number: R GEN 929.373 Taylor Vol. 2
George, Alice L.
Summary: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a. rocket and soared into space. . . He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLENN, JOHN GEOSummary: Pamela B. Green's energetic film about the pioneer filmmaker is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEPeyser, Marc N.
Summary: Examines the relationship between cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "revealing the contentious bond between two political trailblazers who short-circuited the rules of gender and power, each in her own way"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US PeyserSummary: It explores the remarkable life of Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of American gastronomy. Tower began his career at the renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1972, becoming a pioneering figure in the emerging California cuisine movement. After leaving Chez Panisse, due in part to a famously contentious relationship with founder Alice Waters,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016