Goldman, Michael R.
Summary: John Wayne: The Genuine Article provides readers a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most iconic movie stars of all time through a treasure trove of memorabilia, stories, and interviews. This definitive book includes John Wayne Enterprises' collection of never-before-seen letters and telegrams as well as incredibly compelling text from Wayne's unfinished memoir. Important milestones in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 GADRussell, R. K.
Summary: Told through the people and moments that have shaped him, the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual shares his story, showing the life-changing power of embracing who you are and fighting to make space so others can do the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSSELL, R.K. RUSSewell, Kenneth (Kenneth R.)
Summary: This book reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but it is all true. Today our greatest fear is that terrorists may someday acquire a nuclear weapon and use it against us. In fact, they have already tried. In 1968 a Soviet submarine sank off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Summary: "The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POKSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: James K. Polk emerges as the man who won a war, doubled America's size and empowered the executive branch in just a single term against a contentious political backdrop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 POLAbleman, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 ABLElleman, Barbara
Summary: Tomie dePaola is among the best-known artists creating children's stories today. His art and stories are filled with imagination, humor, elegance and curiosity which comes from a love of life reflected in everything he does. Explore dePaola's world in a brilliant biography of his life. Color illustrations and artworks throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DEPColeman, Laura
Summary: Presents the story of the author's journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, LAURA COLCoffman, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.782 COFWolman, David
Summary: Traces the role of three Hawaiian cowboys who became champions at the 1908 Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo, detailing how their careers influenced post-annexation Hawaiian identity, island ranching, and the rodeo culture of Cheyenne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US WolmanColeman, Melissa.
Summary: With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, MELISSA COLNobleman, Marc Tyler.
Summary: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who was everything they were not. It was four more years before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NOBForeman, Michael
Summary: English artist and children's book illustrator Michael Foreman looks back on his own wartime childhood in the village of Pakefield on the Suffolk coast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORGoldman, Vivien.
Contents: Send us another Brother Moses -- Don't worry 'bout a thing -- Walking creation road -- Jah people -- Smile Jamaica -- Never forget, no way -- So much things to say -- Exodus vibration -- Punk reggae party -- Exodus : the intro -- Exodus : a song cycle. Natural mystic ; So much things to say ; Guiltiness ; The heathen ; Exodus ; Jamming ; Waiting in vain ; Turn your lights down low ; Three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.646 GOLGoldman, Francisco
Summary: "Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico ... [and] sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.253 GOLGoldman, Emma
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 GOLHolman, Sheri.
Summary: In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLCottman, Michael H.
Summary: "This narrative follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African-American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARForeman, Amanda
Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Summary: Explores period frontier life and contradictory accounts in an effort to discern the true story of a 19th-century bear-mauling victim who pursued vengeance against the companions who left him for dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2012