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Abranowicz, William

Summary: "This collection revisits key people and places in the civil rights movement, with photographs of locations throughout the south where significant events occurred during the Freedom Movement. The roughly 125 color photographs in the book range from portraits of prominent figures like John Lewis and Harry Belafonte to the barn where Emmett Till was murdered and the bus station where Freedom...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.0973 ABR

Schneider, Dorothy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 SCH

Keoke, Emory Dean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 KEO

Waldman, Carl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WAL

McManus, Lori

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MCM

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MCM

Derleth, August William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1968

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.239 DER

Havighurst, Walter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1966

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.48 HAV
Call number: MI 977.48 HAV

Philips, Katruna

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 PHI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 PHI

Rodriguez, Janel

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 ROD

Fleming, Candace

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: " "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 FLE

Speregen, Devra Newberger

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 SPE

Bartlett, Irving H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1967

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BAR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 1992

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.3 AME

Ashton, Dianne.

Summary: The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.435 ASH

Lakin, Pat.

Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAK

Edwards, Judith.

Summary: Slaves rebelled and sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress to help free the slaves but the actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 EDW

Franzen, Trisha

Summary: "Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha Franzen rectifies that oversight with this first scholarly biography of Shaw, a study that illuminates Shaw's oft-ignored early years and challenges existing scholarship on her time in the suffrage...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, HOWARD ANNA FRA

Stein, R. Conrad.

Summary: Discusses the events surrounding the D-Day invasion of Europe by Allied Forces on June 6, 1944.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 STE

McGowen, Tom.

Summary: Details the pivotal role that George Washington played during the American Revolution and the consequences of his involvement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 MAC

Summary: Are there really right answers to big questions about God, faith, and truth? The kids of Odyssey are about to find out! There's absolute adventure ahead with these life-changing stories on seeing the world from a Christian perspective - and that's no lie.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2008

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CDA Juvenile Adv

Contents: v.1. Country entries A to K -- v. 2. Country entries L to Z -- v. 3. Overview entries A to Z.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Reference, Call number: R 394.26 ENC V1
Call number: R 394.26 ENC V2
Call number: R 394.26 ENC V3

Connolly, Kieron

Summary: During the 1960s, America became embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war fighting communism in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment led to mass youth protests, which occasionally turned deadly. With the Soviet Union breaking up in the late 1980s, the United States was the sole superpower. But it quickly became the target of Islamist terrorism, as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the War on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.92 CON

Quinn, Edward

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 803 QUI

Connolly, Kieron

Summary: The United States was born in the violence of revolution, and it experienced equally violent growing pains that resulted in the Civil War. That conflict would be particularly bloody, with more American lives lost than in both World Wars combined. Following the end of the war, the violence of the Reconstruction era, the Jim Crow South, and ongoing Indian wars continued to convulse the former...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 CON

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