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Rosselli, John.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.1 ROS

Oesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE OES

Vescia, Monique

Summary: Practitioners of the art of movement known as parkour display strength, skill, and grace as they climb and leap over every urban obstacle in their path. Parkour is a physically demanding discipline that almost anyone of any means can practice with proper instruction and when safety measures are taken. This riveting book examines the origins of parkour and its global appeal. An engrossing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.42 VES

Kennedy, Rozella

Summary: "Inspired by her own foremothers' legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women--both famous and little-known--who changed the course of US history. In the beautiful pages of Our Brave Foremothers, discover an intergenerational, intercultural bouquet of Black, Brown, Asian, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 920 KEN

Breslin, Susannah

Summary: "What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRESLIN, SUSANNAH BRE

Beccia, Carlyn

Summary: "From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous body parts range from medical to macabre. Carlyn Beccia explores the misadventures of noteworthy body parts through history and uses them as springboards for exploring topics such as forensics, DNA testing, brain science, organ donation, and cloning. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018

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Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: A look at the experiences of Louisa May Alcott during the Civil War that led to the writing of Little Women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALC

Freedman, Russell

Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 FRE

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.4 FRE

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1987

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FRE

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1996

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CRAZYHORS FRE

Miller, Russell.

Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection--and sometimes obsession--the world over, but his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes propelled him to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN MIL

Russell, Cameron

Summary: "Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a precocious and serious student with her sights set on college-not the runway. But it was a job, and modeling seemed to offer young women like herself access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, "there are a million girls in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Russell, Franklin

Summary: In the spring, the hive awakens and half the bees and their queen build a new hive and carry on their work throughout the summer. 

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf: [distributed by Random House] 1967

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUS

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FRE

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FRE

Russell, Gareth

Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUS

Bidlack, Russell E. (Russell Eugene)

Summary: Details the life of Ann I. Allen, Ann Arbor's first lady.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLEN, ANN I. BID

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1987

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LIN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN FRE

King, Russell

Summary: "In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 KIN

Means, Russell

Summary: A riveting account of the life of perhaps the most compelling American Indian of this century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 MEA

Russell, Gareth

Summary: "A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 RUS

Riley, Russell L. (Russell Lynn)

Summary: "In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume.Based on 400 hours of candid conversations, Inside the Clinton White House adds color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 RIL

Banks, Russell

Summary: The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes that since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 BAN

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRA

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