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Astrophysics Deadheads (Music fans) Gooding, James Henry 1837-1864 Higgins, Marguerite Married people United States Correspondence Presidents United States Correspondence Presidents' spouses United States Correspondence Stephens, George E United States United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: Tyson shares 101 letters from people across the globe who have sought him out in search of scientific answers. A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 TYSHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 AREHale, Nathan
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HIGCronkite, Walter
Summary: Walter Cronkite, a giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation," reveals his World War II experiences in this fascinating book. Cronkite married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of his life, and their marriage lasted happily until her death in 2005. But before they celebrated their second anniversary, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 CRONKITE, WALTER CROAdams, John
Contents: Love sweetens life, October 1762-July 1774 -- The decisive day is come, August 1774-December 1775 -- We are determined to foment a rebelion, January-October 1776 -- Kind providence has preserved to me a life, January-November 1777 -- I cast my thoughts across the Atlantick, February 1778-April 1782 -- A signal tryumph, July 1782-March 1788 -- The most insignificant office, December 1788-January...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADALarson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne was the first person to discover what burns at the heart of stars. But she didn't start out as the groundbreaking scientist she would eventually become. She started out as a girl full of curiosity, hoping one day to unlock the mysteries of the universe. With lyrical, evocative text by Kirsten W. Larson and extraordinary illustrations by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAYBennitt, John.
Summary: "In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters. In them he shared his careful and detailed observations of army life, including dramatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.775 BENHughes, Langston
Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGChase-Riboud, Barbara
Summary: "American artist, poet, and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939), has had an unusually varied and highly successful career across genres and media. As a poet, her work was edited by Toni Morrison and she is a recipient of the Carl Sandburg Prize. As a fiction writer, she was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her first historical novel, Sally Hemings (1979) was a bestseller. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHESummary: There is nothing like a Greatful Dead concert!Since 1965, there have been over 3,000 Greatful Dead concerts, from the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park to the Gizeh Pyramids. At each of them, someone has stepped "on the bus" and become a Dead Head. Now, all of the Dead Head voices and visions have come together. Greatful Dead: The Official Book of the Dead Heads is a splendid mixture of musicians,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.5 GRAReagan, Nancy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 REAConant, Jennet
Summary: "Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGGINS, MAGGIE CONKlein, Gerda Weissmann
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KLERoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROONader, Ralph
Summary: "In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. Each letter offers frank advice and shines light on government mishaps and missed opportunities for progress. With his signature dry wit, Nader holds these presidents to their campaign promises. He also boldly points to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 NADThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOBernstein, Leonard
Summary: "Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 BEREinboden, Jeffrey
Summary: "On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler from the American frontier, who urgently requested a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 EINEllison, Ralph.
Contents: Tuskeegee and New York, 1950-1955 -- Rome, Casablanca, and New York, 1955-1958 -- Los Angeles and New York, 1958-1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ELLGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRASwirsky, Seth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1999