Dekel, Mikhal

Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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Paradis, Michel

Summary: A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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Weissman, Michaele

Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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Migel, Parmenia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1972

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Nickel, Sandra

Summary: "A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2020

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Harper, Michele

Summary: "A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020

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Sichol, Lowey Bundy.

Summary: "From an Idea to Disney is a behind-the-movie-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest entertainment empire. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company behind the world's favorite mouse, Mickey!"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J 384.8 SIC

Fitoussi, Michèle

Summary: Helena Rubinstein not only enjoyed unbelievable success, but was also instrumental in empowering and liberating women. This is her story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUBINSTEIN, HELENA FIT

Mendelssohn, Michèle

Summary: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. 'Making Oscar Wilde' reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018

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Zackheim, Michele.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999

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Nickel, Sandra

Summary: "Vera Rubin was one of the astronomers who discovered and named dark matter, the thing that keeps the universe hanging together. Throughout her career she was never taken seriously as a scientist because she was one of the only female astronomers at that time, but she didn't let that stop her. She made groundbreaking and incredibly significant discoveries that scientists have only recently been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021

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Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Contents: Louis Comfort Tiffany: a nineteenth-century artist / Marilynn A. Johnson -- Tiffany's contemporaries: the evolution of the American interior decorator / Nina Gray -- Tiffany in Europe: the view from abroad / Rüdiger Joppien -- Iridescent Phoenix: the Tiffany revival / Martin Filler -- Louis Comfort Tiffany: artist for the ages / Marilynn A. Johnson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scala 2005

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Williams, Michelle (Tenitra Michelle)

Summary: "Acclaimed musical artist Michelle Williams shares the intimate, never-before-told story of how, even in the midst of enormous fame and success, she battled depression, leading her to find her true calling as an advocate for mental health--especially herown"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Holt 2002

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Mitchell, Stephen

Summary: Chiefly commentary on biblical excerpts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.1 MIT

Mitchell, Don

Summary: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FOR

Mitchell, Jerry

Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014

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Zuckoff, Mitchell

Summary: "When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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Bowdler, Michelle

Summary: "Alice Sebold meets Roxane Gay in Michelle Bowdler's literary debut, telling her story of rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone. Award-winning writer and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWDLER, MICHELLE BOW

Markel, Michelle

Summary: Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAL