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Summary: "Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 ARR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 ARR

Dalin, David G.

Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DAL

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)

Summary: "In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States Army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Miami River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousandIndians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in killed and wounded, while Indian casualties numbered only a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 CAL

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