Kephart, Beth
Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NORHomans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 858.912 TOMHoman, Lynn M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 HOMGarza, Carmen Lomas.
Summary: The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book 2000
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Summary: "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTENCOURT, LILIANE SANHatch, Thom
Summary: A history of the legendary Old West outlaw duo traces their numerous daring robberies before new technologies and advancing civilization rendered their methods ineffective, sharing insight into their flight to South America and reports about their mysterious deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 HATFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who EdisonFeild, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TFD LLC 2006
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word FeildNicholson, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.7043 NichoChilders, Thomas
Summary: "Based in part on documents seldom used by previous historians, this history of the Third Reich shows how the dramatic, improbable rise of the Nazis happened because of tragic miscalculations and blunders, then documents what life was like for ordinary Germans as the Nazis precipitated the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 CHIForget, Thomas.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Captain America, including information on his creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 ForgeHager, Thomas.
Summary: The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. It was sulfa, the first synthetic antibiotic. Science writer Hager chronicles the history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.--but even more,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.2 HAGJefferson, Thomas
Summary: HIST Thomas Jefferson, best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and as our third president, was an extraordinarily accomplished man with wide-ranging interests. From 1784 to 1789, he was America's envoy to France, during which time he also traveled widely on the European continent. From his extensive writings during these years, editors Wilson and Stanton (both with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 JEFKing, Thomas
Summary: "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, THOMAS KINMcNamee, Thomas
Summary: The authorized biography of Alice Waters and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine." Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in Berkeley, a young Francophile opened a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATERS, ALICE MCNStreissguth, Thomas
Summary: Presents the life and work of Mary Cassatt, the only American artist included with the French Impressionists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CASSATT STRThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ThomasThomas, Evan
Summary: "Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 THOMAS, HELEN THOThomas, Hugh
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.02 THOThomas, Hugh
Summary: A history of Spain's first thirty years in the Americas traces Columbus's pioneering voyage through Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.01 THOThomas, Marlo.
Summary: The award-winning actress shares her funny and heartwarming stories of a life filled with laughter. Woven throughout the book are her interviews with many beloved American comedians about how they, too, found the funny in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, MARLO THOBeller, Thomas
Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014