Makos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMONapoli, Lisa
Summary: A portrait of the relationship between McDonald's chairman Ray Croc and his wife, Joan, describes how he helped establish an international brand and amassed a considerable estate before his impassioned wife gave most of the family fortune away to philanthropic pursuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NAPGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "Describes the life and accomplishments of American civil rights champion, statesman, and politician John Lewis. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWHarris, Duchess
Summary: In 2008, voters chose Barack Obama as the first African American president in the history of the United States. Barack Obama Is Elected President examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Barack Obama himself, his wife, Michelle, and opposing candidate John McCain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J382.73092 HARHobkirk, Lori.
Summary: "Starting a successful business is not an easy task. It was even more difficult for a Black woman to accomplish this in the 1900s. Yet, this is what Madam C.J. Walker did"--Page 5.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WALWolff, Alexander
Summary: "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOLJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILAuricchio, Laura.
Summary: A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice commemorated in America’s towns, streets, parks, and schools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE AURDemetrios, Heather
Summary: "To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GOIEig, Jonathan
Summary: "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: B KING EIGGlover, James M.
Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLOHagedorn, Ann
Summary: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVAL, GEORGE HAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOVAL HAGHolt, Nathalia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 HOLMcNeur, Catherine
Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCNWard, Nathan
Summary: "An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIRINGO, CHARLIE SIRChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHADiemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIEStosz, Sandra
Summary: "Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehlerbooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 STOTaylor, 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
Wallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King and John Lewis. Born in the 1940s in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NASWaller, Douglas C.
Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALClaridge, Laura P.
Summary: "Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNOPF, BLANCHE CLAFerguson, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERGreenidge, Kerri
Summary: "This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020