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Large type books Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960 Politics and literature Soviet Union History Prohibited books Soviet Union History Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985 United States United States Foreign relations Soviet Union United States. Central Intelligence Agency History 20th century WrestlersFishman, Boris
Summary: The author shares the story of his family, their immigration, and the challenges of navigating two cultures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHMAN, BORIS FISJohnson, Boris
Summary: The mayor of London and former Spectator editor challenges popular misconceptions to assess Churchill's enduring influence on the world, discussing the many contradictions of his life and his considerable political and military achievements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON JOHFinn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINFinn, Peter
Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FINFern, Tracey E.
Summary: Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRAKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEWKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARHOL, ANDY BockrisLeachman, Cloris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LEACHMAN, CLORIS LEALords, Traci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperEntertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.47 LORBorth, Teddy
Summary: The New Day has become WWE's longest reigning tag team champions. Discover the journeys of Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston. What started as a disaster became one of the most fun teams in all of professional wrestling. The simple text is joined with beautiful photographs showing some of The New Day's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BORDorris, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.292 DorriGrumbach, Doris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GRUHaddock, Doris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001