Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Bronski, Michael.

Summary: "Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality," have been used to justify discrimination...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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Brodsky, Joseph

Summary: Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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Tougias, Mike

Summary: In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. While the storm raged on the freezing Atlantic, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same predicament. Not built to withstand those seas, both tankers split in two. This is the gripping, true story of the Coast Guard's valiant attempt to rescue the dozens of men left...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent spokesman for his people.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009

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Douglass, Merrill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 1998

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Vronsky, Peter

Summary: "Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass was an immense, motivational figure. His early life, filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy, adds up to a heart-wrenching history. However, he was able to overcome everything that bound a slave to his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Presents the autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the north after twenty-one years of enslavement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021

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Douglass, Sara.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Fantasy 2006

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1993

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Bronski, Kelli

Summary: "Tried-and-tested gluten-free recipes for more than sixty pizza creations made from fifteen kinds of dough-from American pie to the Italian originals (Roman, Sicilian, Neapolitan) with toppings that novice and seasoned chefs alike will find inventive andexciting"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2019

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Wronsky, Gail

Summary: This book collects over four decades of work by this unique and imaginative poet. Wronsky's poems, informed by her reading of classical texts as well as contemporary poetics, explore feminism, environmentalism, and mortality in language that is both multi-layered and musical. At times dark and at times humorous, her poems speak to our strengths as well as our frailties.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2021

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Brodsky, Joseph

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1986

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Dixon, Dougal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1992

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Dougan, Andy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1998

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Lansky, Vicki.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Book Peddlers of Deephaven, MN 1991

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