Stabler, David.
Summary: "Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world’s most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Jackson Pollock’s family moved constantly—he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old. Georgia O’Keeffe lived in the shadow of her zperfecty older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2016
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 709 StablerStabler, David
Summary: Presents twenty stories featuring the United States presidents when they were children, including William Taft's dance lessons, Lyndon Johnson's classroom pranks, and Gerald Ford's struggles with dyslexia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2004
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Misc RouchDodson, Peggy Rouch
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beistline Enterprises 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 DODStabler, David
Summary: Sixteen "true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes, from Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle)"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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Summary: A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees--Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 STAWilliams, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 WILCrouch, Tom D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003
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Summary: Cleopatra was not the renowned beauty of legend-her strength lay in her intelligence, courage, and charm, and she would need all three in her short and perilous reign. She became Queen of Egypt at eighteen and by twenty had been driven from her throne. But she raided an army and won the support of the great Julius Caesar, who helped her return to rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1994
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLEOPATRA STAWeintraub, Stanley
Summary: In "Young Mr. Roosevelt" Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D WEIStanley, Diane.
Summary: Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who ruled England in the time of Shakespeare and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: "After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris's head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 NELStanley, Fay.
Summary: Recounts the story of Hawaii's last heir to the throne, who was denied her right to rule when the monarchy was abolished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Winds Press 1991
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KAIULANI STAStanley, Jerry
Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLEWeintraub, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truman Talley Books/Dutton 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICMcChrystal, Stanley A.
Summary: A candid memoir by the four-star general discusses his early service years, contributions as a commander in Afghanistan, and relationships with heads of state and unpredictable enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 MCCHanley, Charles J.
Summary: "Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea -- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II -- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 HANHirshson, Stanley P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEORGE, PATTON HIRAbrams, Stacey
Summary: "Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways.Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ABRKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Invent KrullHarwood, Laurence
Contents: Introduction -- Friends at Oxford -- Lovers of literature -- Walking tours -- Friendship after Oxford -- Godfather Jack -- My letters from my godfather -- My mother's death -- My failure at Oxford -- Jack's illness and marriage to Joy Davidman -- Jack's last years -- Jack's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 HARMcGovern, George S. (George Stanley)
Summary: Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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Summary: "Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and11) in June 1944. This made Stinney the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. In 2014, a circuit court judge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 FABSummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019