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Summary: Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People's Liberation Army to the very doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 DAPBeevor, Antony
Summary: Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BEEKamm, Antony.
Contents: 1. The Origins of Rome 2. The Republic 3. Twelve Caesars 4. Religions and Mythology 5. Society and Daily Life 6. Art, Architecture, and Building 7. Latin Literature 8. The Roman Army 9. The Empire: Stability, Disintegration, Recovery, Fall Appendices Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 KAMSpawforth, Antony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.3663 SPEBeevor, Antony
Summary: "On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BEEBeevor, Antony
Summary: From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BEEBeevor, Antony
Summary: On August 23, 1942, Hitler's 16th Panzer Division halted on the banks of the Volga. To their right, the city of Stalingrad blazed from the first of General von Richthofen's air raids, which ultimately killed 40,000 civilians. Many German soldiers thought the war against Russia was won. But in Stalin's namesake city on the Volga, Hitler had chosen the wrong target. The battle of Stalingrad would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 BEEBridge, Antony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 BRIHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARStall, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 STA1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.977 STA
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.0977 STAArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARAAtria, Travis
Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIGGS, ARTHUR BRIKatwala, Amit
Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KATLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVAmara, Philip
Summary: "This is an illustrated children's anthology of noteworthy Asian Americans: 20 groundbreaking men and women from diverse backgrounds and vocations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMAAujla, Dev
Summary: "Based on the popular website of the same name, a guide to finding the right job while maintaining your sanity in the process In today's endlessly fluctuating job market, it's becoming more and more difficult to get hired. 50 Ways to Get a Job aims to fix that. Job search expert Dev Aujla created 50WaysToGetAJob.com as a way to offer practical, tangible steps to finding (and getting) the right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 AUJCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business AujlaBeevor, Antony
Summary: "On December, 16, 1944, Hitler launched his last gamble in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BEEBeevor, Antony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.081 BEEAujla, Rupy.
Summary: What you eat will change your life. Reveals the scientifically proven foods and food groups that prevent illness, and teaches how to create meals that benefit every part of life. 80 recipes, full of international flavors, complemented by a specific marker of healthy living.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu AujlaArana, Marie
Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARABathala, Neeti
Summary: Leena and her mom volunteer each summer to count the horseshoe crabs that visit their beach. With their dog Bobie at their sides, the duo spends a night on the shore surveying horseshoe crabs who have come to mate and lay eggs. Readers will learn valuable facts about these ancient animals and how they can get involved in the effort to conserve horseshoe crabs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbordale Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BATScala, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.344 SCAMataya, Marybeth.
Summary: "Luke and Leo like lively poems. They teach their friend Lizzy about limericks with help from her older sister, Jill. Limericks always have five lines and a bouncy rhythm. It's fun to end them with a funny line. What funny poems will Luke, Leo and Lizzy build next?"--(p.4) of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2011