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Beckert, Sven.

Summary: "The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BEC

Bethea, Nikole Brooks

Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the cotton gin. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 BET

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOM

Berry, Steve

Summary: Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet-mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still imbedded in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BER

Berry, Steve

Summary: Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BER

Everhart, Donna

Summary: 1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. When Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, Sonny is sure the man has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVE

Agee, James

Summary: Provides an unsparing record of three families surviving under the harsh conditions of Depression-era poverty in 1936 rural Alabama.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1062 AGE

Berry, Steve

Summary: Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history - it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe. Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BER

Berry, Steve

Summary: Former Justice Department Agent Cotton Malone learns of a private auction for incriminating information about Poland's president. The price of admittance is one of the precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ. Malone steals the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to both Christians and the Polish people, and then attends the auction. But things go awry, and Malone is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BER

Berry, Steve

Summary: "In New York Times bestseller, Steve Berry's, latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Berry 2020

Berry, Steve

Summary: After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder. The price of admission is one of the relics, so Malone is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BER

Sawyer, Kim Vogel

Summary: Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Brendan...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAW

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SAW

Summary: A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAR

Berry, Steve

Summary: "Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BER

Berry, Steve

Summary: "The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BER

Summary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAI

Henderson, Ray

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. 1925

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Nelson, Robin

Summary: Looks at the steps involved in the creation of a T-shirt, from the growing of the cotton to the completion of a final product that is ready to wear.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2013

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Yafa, Stephen H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 677.21 YAF

Grindol, Mary Alice Benedict

Summary: History of the interrelated Button and Fuller families who descended from George William Fuller and James Ambrose Button. Their families united in the marriage of William Rufus Fuller (1851-1914) and his wife, Marietta (Mary) Eveline Button, of Michigan. William Rufus and Mary had ten children: George Ambrose, Grover Button, William Orange, Lucius LeRoy, Robert Pingree, Cora Violet, Henry...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: M. Grindol 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FULLER Grindol

Finlay, Victoria

Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FIN

Berry, Steve

Summary: Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Grisham, John.

Summary: Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Malam, John

Summary: Describes the many dangerous jobs performed by children who worked in the cotton mills of industrial England in the nineteenth century, work that included long hours, low pay, and no provision for school work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.7 MAL

Winthrop, Elizabeth.

Summary: It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIN

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