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Cinco de Mayo, Battle of, Puebla, Mexico, 1862 Indians of North America Civil rights Indians of North America Cultural assimilation Indians of North America Ethnic identity Man-woman relationships Fiction Manners and customs Mexico Social life and customs Mothers and sons Seattle (Wash.) Fiction Washington (State) SeattleMartin, Barry
Summary: "The inspiring true story of the bond between a feisty octogenarian and the man in charge of building an enormous shopping mall around her home. Edith Macefield achieved folk hero status in 2006 when she turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. It didn't matter that her tiny house was surrounded by rubble and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACEFIELD, EDITH MARPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "In 1889 Seattle, Washington, Militine and Thane meet while serving the local poor. Though both carry a dark history and a sense of haunting pain, they begin to grow closer and wonder whether God can build something new and beautiful from the debris of the past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2015Newman, Magdalena M.
Summary: "Praised by RJ Palacio as "wondrous"--this moving memoir follows a teenage boy with TC syndrome and his exceptional family from diagnosis at birth to now. "This touching memoir is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the real world experiences of a child with craniofacial differences and his extraordinary family. It's also more than that. It's a story about the love between a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NEWPeterson, Tracie.
Summary: "In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires love while so many around her are finding it; when lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficion Peterson 2015Hudson, Wade
Summary: "The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUDLawhon, Ariel
Summary: "A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000
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Summary: "A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASSummary: Back for season five, Doctor Blake is ready to solve a series of strange and shocking crimes. Blake once again investigates the seemingly unsolvable murders that take place in the fascinating sub-cultures of 1960s Ballarat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCGrey, Zane
Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRENewman, Magdalena M.
Summary: "A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NEWSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROBullard, Lisa.
Summary: Explains the history behind the holiday and discusses how it is celebrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.07 BULWilkinson, Alec
Contents: The blessing of the fleet -- The riverkeeper -- The uncommitted crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILLockhart, E
Summary: A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROSalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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Summary: Simple text and color illustrations present the historical background and contemporary celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007
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Summary: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, WEDNESDAY MARBellefleur, Alexandria
Summary: Brendon Lowell loves love. It's why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he's convinced "the one" is out there, even if he hasn't met her yet. Or... has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. He's crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American children describe their families' cultural traditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 KUKSummary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 RICSummary: "Cowboys: a documentary portrait" is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "bit outfit" ranches - some of which are over a million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COWCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016