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Boyd, Herb 1938- Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Jewish children in the Holocaust Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Refugees Taos (N.M.) Biography World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Juvenile literature World War, 1939-1945 Refugees World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Juvenile literatureHorie, Yoshitaka.
Contents: The toughest battle in world history -- Isolated island : where no planes or vessels could go -- Saipan was said to be impregnable -- Iwo Jima is next! -- Iwo Jima : an island of pineapples and jungle -- The Ogasawara Islands force and the U.S. Pacific fleet -- Let's sink Iwo Jima into the ocean -- Supply operations at night via Chichi Jima -- Defensive operations from the caves -- Send more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HORIE, YOSHITAKA HORShere, Jeremy.
Summary: An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 SHEHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HERHersh, Burton.
Summary: An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths and considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 HERHarte, John
Summary: This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill’s early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars - on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age 22, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War before he is appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty. The book also covers the failure,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON HARHersh, Burton.
Summary: A historian and journalist combines extensive research with observations from his long-time acquaintance with Kennedy to recount the influential senator's life, including the Chappaquiddick accident and Kennedy's behind-the-scenes efforts to bring down Nixon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD HERLeakey, Meave G.
Summary: "Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEAKEY, MEAVE G. LEAGörtemaker, Heike B.
Contents: Pt. 1. The meeting -- Heinrich Hoffmann's studio -- Munich After the First World War -- The Braun family -- Rise to power at Hitler's side -- pt. 2. Contrasting worlds -- Women in national socialism -- The myth of the Führer, or, Herr Hitler in private -- The mistress and the inner circle -- Life at the Obersalzberg -- pt. 3. Downfall -- Isolation during the war -- The events of July 20, 1944...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAUN, EVA GORLongman, Jere.
Summary: The story of the U.S. women's soccer team and their rise from a virtually unnoticed group of young women athletes to the champions of the 1999 Women's World Cup includes profiles of top players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 LONBerne, Jennifer
Summary: "A biography of famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and awe-inspiring facts about our universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.953 ROGERS, MILLICENT BURHerr, Melody.
Summary: "Describes the exploration of North America in the times of explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Sieur de La Salle. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from Columbus' voyage in 1492, Coronado's 1540 expedition, and Sieur de La Salle's expedition down the Mississippi River in 1682"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUHesse, María
Summary: "Frida Kahlo fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es sangre y sufrimiento, pero también fiesta, color. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera, una mujer apasionada que no se conformó con estar a la sombra de su gran amor, el pintor Diego Rivera, y peleó por alcanzar cada uno de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH HESBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYHero, Basil
Summary: Only twenty-four human beings have travelled to the Moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history and their view of Earth from the moon changed them and the way we see our home planet. Now in their emeritus years, the twelve remaining lunar explorers for the first time reveal the true source of courage, leadership, and the quiet patriotism that it took to accomplish their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1 HERBarr, Nancy Verde.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA BARSachs, Harvey
Summary: "Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality? In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music-works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACCornioley, Pearl Witherington
Summary: "Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told througha series of reminiscences--from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CORBerne, Emma Carlson.
Summary: Profiles the woman who, with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, overcame the limitations of being both blind and deaf to become an author and an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELBerne, Emma Carlson.
Summary: Profiles the life of the Native American interpreter and guide, exploring the myths surrounding her role in the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and documenting her family life, the years after the journey, her death and legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SACHarvey, Miles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GK Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 025.82 HARHarvey, Paul
Summary: "A religiously focused biography of Howard Thurman, one of the most significant progenitors of the Civil Rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THURMAN, HOWARD HARKubernik, Harvey
Summary: "A unique tribute to Jimi Hendrix featuring contributions by those who knew and worked with him, enhanced with images by the most renowned rock photographers of the era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDRIX, JIMI KUBBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017