Curlee, Lynn
Summary: "Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURClarren, Rebecca
Summary: "An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: A descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt presents an insider's tour of America's old-money wealthy class, profiling the members of her dysfunctional family while identifying toxic factors and behaviors that have influenced their downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 929 BURCurrent, Richard Nelson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, LOIE CURCurlee, Lynn
Summary: Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon--Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Teen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 NIJJones, Landon Y.
Contents: A dark and bloody ground -- 1. America's first west: 1722-1772 -- 2. General George Rogers Clark: 1772-1789 -- 3. Lieutenant Billy Clark: 1789-1795 -- 4. Soldier and citizen: 1795-1803 -- 5. "Ocian in view! O! the joy!":1803-1806 -- 6. This wild country: 1806-1809 -- 7. Life without Lewis: 1809-1813 -- 8. Territorial governor: 1813-1820 -- 9. "The red-headed chief": 1820-1829 -- 10. Resistance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 CLAStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIDCullen, Kevin
Summary: This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger -- a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BULMcClure, Tori Murden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCLURE, TORI MCCTrask-Curtin, Marilou
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRASK-CURTIN, MARILOU TRAMcGrady, Darren
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5092 MCGSokolove, Michael Y
Summary: In the last temptation of Rick Pitino , Michael Sokolove lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in the context of the much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, as long as they keep the "elite" athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PITINO, RICK SOKCullen, David
Summary: Offers an account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of Parkland who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders, inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 CULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.7 CULMarshall, 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 CURCurrier, John J. (John James)
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Hampshire Pub. Co. 1977
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 974.459 CurriMurphy, Cullen
Summary: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, JOHN CULLEN MURStelson, Caren Barzelay
Summary: "Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YASRoberts-Frenzel, Caren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 ROBCurry, Constance
Summary: In 1965 the Carter family sent seven of their children to integrate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi, where the school board offered a "freedom of choice" policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.247 CURCurry, Dayna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CURDavis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)
Summary: Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, freminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, ANGELA DAVWong, Carmen Rita
Summary: Carmen Rita Wong siempre ha anhelado un sentido de pertenencia: primero cuando era una niña pequeña en una habitación cálida llena de mujeres latinas negras y morenas, como su madre, Lupe, animándola bailando durante su infancia en Harlem. Y en Chinatown, donde su padre inmigrante, "Papi" Wong, un estafador, la exhibiría a ella y a su hermano mayor en opulentos restaurantes decorados en rojo y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2023