Krensky, Stephen
Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: Discover the incredible story of Alexander Hamilton, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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Summary: Details the life and times of the nineteenth-century German brothers who penned many famous fairy tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REEAvery, Burniece
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balamp Pub. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 AVEAmory, Cleveland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 AMOEvers, Medgar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Civitas 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS, MEDGAR EVEAmiry, Suad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 AMIAmeri, Anan
Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AMEAmory, Cleveland.
Contents: The cat who came for Christmas -- The cat and the curmudgeon -- The best cat ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 AMORaver, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 RaverLaNier, Carlotta Walls
Summary: A personal account of the nation's most famous school integration recounts the author's decision to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High and describes how subsequent events affected her family's beliefs about dedication, perseverance, and sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LANAdero, Malaika
Summary: "When Kamala Harris became vice president of the United States, she made history as the first woman, first Black person, first South Asian American, and first Caribbean American to hold the office. This stunning book covers Harris's life from her childhood in Berkeley to her Howard College years, charting the many firsts she has carried with her throughout her legal and senatorial careers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA ADELavery, Grace E.
Summary: "Lights up on little Grace Lavery: reformed druggie, unreformed pantie-dropper, and 100% all-natural, synthetically-cultivated female hormone monster. From the moment Grace solves what she affectionately calls her "penis problem" in the parking lot of an abandoned Japanese steakhouse (were the turkeys milling about the handicapped spaces following her?), she begins receiving accusatory letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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Summary: "This remarkable collection of letters between German Jews trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the United States offers rare insights into the challenges of an average American family responding to desperate requests for refuge and aid"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BONGordon, Charlotte.
Summary: "Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GORNebres, Charlotte
Summary: "The only thing Charlotte loves as much as ballet is Christmas. So, when she gets the opportunity to play Marie in the New York City Ballet's The Nutcracker, she leaps at the chance. Dancing takes practice-hours of adjusting her arms and perfecting her jumps. With the help of her Trinidadian and Filipino families, encouragement from her sister, and a view of her mom and dad in the audience,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN NEBSilver, Charlotte.
Summary: Infectious, charming, and at times wistful, Charlotte au Chocolat is a celebration of the magic of a beautiful presentation and the virtues of good manners, as well as a loving tribute to the author's mother-a woman who always showed her best face to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SILAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVESutton, Matthew Avery
Summary: "What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he launched a secret new program under the Office of Strategic Services. His recruits, in turn, believed an American victory would help them protect their foreign ministries and expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SUTAmory, Cleveland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 AMOGray, Charlotte
Summary: "The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRAGrey, Charlotte.
Summary: The first installment in Charlotte Grey's trilogy about life as a cattle farmer in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print Books 2007