Woolfson, Esther.

Summary: Explores the many similarities between humans and corvids through the relationships that the author's family share with a rook, talking magpie, baby crow, and other feathered friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.864 WOO

De Waal, Esther.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Publications 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 269.6 DEW

Foer, Esther Safran

Summary: "Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOER, ESTHER SAFRAN FOE

Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal.

Summary: Having lived under Nazi occupation for three years, Krinitz and her sister separated from their family and disguised themselves as farmhands. When she was 50, she began hand-stitching images of the family she never saw again into 36 fabric panels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2005

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.53 KRI

Churnin, Nancy

Summary: "When Esther Howland first saw the fancy valentine her father brought home from England, most Americans thought Valentine's Day was a waste of time. But through the card, Esther felt how much her father loved her. Could she help others express themselves in the same way?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023

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White, Linda Arms.

Summary: In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became the first woman to hold public office in the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America White

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Baker, Frank W.

Summary: During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine and Wonder 2022

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Xinran

Summary: An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves--true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 XIN

Godfrey, Father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palphot Ltd. 1989

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Ostler, Catherine

Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OST

Etler, Cyndy

Summary: When the author is sent to Straight, Inc., a "tough love" program for troubled teens, she is psychologically beaten for months and forced to return to high school with a battered psyche.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETL

Etler, Cyndy

Summary: The author describes her youth as a runaway at age fourteen and how she was sent to a corrupt recovery facility where she faced intimidation and unconventional treatment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETL

Rather, Dan

Summary: "In a collection of essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values, reminds us of what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 RAT

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Rather, Dan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001

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Teresa, Mother

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1995

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Reuther, Victor G

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.8812 REU