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Cambodia Curie, Marie 1867-1934 Curie, Marie 1867-1934 Juvenile literature Korea (North) Politics and government 2011- Muir, John 1838-1914 Naturalists United States Biography Poland United States. 19th Amendment History Women chemists Women chemists Poland Biography Juvenile literatureChii
Summary: "A diary comic with an upbeat, adorable flair that tells the charming tale of Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition-as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now, Chii is about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRIChing, Jacqueline.
Summary: Biography of the life story of Thomas Jefferson from his early education to his work in France, his time in the White House, to his retirement in Virginia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2009
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Jefferson 2009Chang, Jung
Summary: A portrait of the nineteenth-century empress covers the coup that made her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities, and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CIXI, EMPRESS CHASachs, Curt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SACMuir, John
Summary: "Like Muir himself, Essential Muir packs an astounding range of experience into a lithe frame: ecstatic yet scientific descriptions of Yosemite; the heartrending tale of that "wee, hairy, sleekit beastie," Stickeen; reflections on the society of Eskimos; Muir's touching tribute, after a lifetime of wonder, to the mighty baobob trees of Africa; and more. Fred D. White's selection from Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 MUIMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARMilani, Alice
Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURChang, Jung
Summary: Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAO ZEDONG CHAMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.8 MUIMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 MUIMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 MUIMuir, John
Contents: The story of my boyhood and youth -- A thousand mile walk to the Gulf -- My first summer in the Sierra -- Travels in Alaska -- Stickeen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Classics 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN MUILee, Chung Min
Summary: "North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take? The answer concerns the whole world. Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: ThePeople's Republic of North Korea. The Kim family has clung to power for three generations by silencing dissidents, ruling with an iron fist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 LEEChin, Ava
Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, AVA CHIGaines, Chip
Summary: Gaines is a TV star, renovation expert, author, and husband and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. He's also a serial entrepreneur always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out as planned. His mentors taught him to never give up and his family showed him what it meant to always have a positive attitude despite your circumstances. And the most important thing was to take that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAINES, CHIP GAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GAINES GAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio GainesMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 MUIJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Summary: When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 150.19 JUNStine, Megan
Summary: "Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET CURIEPak, Jung H.
Summary: "A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un, from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump--from a former CIA analyst considered one of the leading American experts on the North Korean leader inside and outside the U.S. government. When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea following his father's death in 2011, predictions about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, JUNG UN PAKChung, Estella M
Summary: "A thematic biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post through the prism of Post's multi-faceted interests and accomplishments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, in association with D Giles Limited 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POST, MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER CHUEig, Jonathan.
Summary: Traces the criminal investigation of the notorious mobster, documenting his rise during the Prohibition era, the legal strategy that enabled his prosecution, and the possibility that he was innocent of the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 EIGUng, Loung.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGUng, Loung.
Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNGLee, Sung-Yoon
Summary: Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murderous regime's chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023