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Mufleh, Luma O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986 O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986 Juvenile literature Painters United States Biography Juvenile literature Plains (Ga.) Biography Plains (Ga.) Social life and customs 20th century Presidents United States Biography United States Women Biography Women painters United States Biography Juvenile literatureMwai, Melissa H.
Summary: "Follow the life of Stacey Abrams, from her childhood spent growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, to her work with civic engagement and mass voter registrations in Georgia, to her groundbreaking work as the first woman to lead in the Georgia General Assembly and first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. Find out about Stacey Abram's life, achievements, and the challenges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MWABradwell, Isaac Gordon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7458 BRARay, Janisse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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Summary: "Stacey Abrams is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and voting rights activist. After working in government, she founded Fair Fight Action to improve voting access. Learn about Abrams's early life and what she plans to do next"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ABRWarnock, Raphael G.
Summary: "On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and now as a Senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can at once call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARNOCK, RAPHAEL G. WARHarding, Stephen
Summary: The story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, marooned on a South Pacific island, and his one-man war against Japanese forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: Jenn Corbin, a lovely,slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and husband-Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist-who was tall, handsome, and brilliant. But gradually their seemingly idyllic life together began to crumble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.523 RULFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist's portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET O'KeeffeOney, Steve
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 ONEDahl, Candy
Summary: Tiny Broadwick, a teeny, uneducated mill girl, had big dreams of soaring above the earth, out of poverty, and above expectations. She became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, and her idea for the rip cord paved the way for pilots to safely escape in-flight emergencies. This thrilling biography shows how Tiny's determination, courage, adventurousness, and joy lifted her up to stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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Summary: "A picture book biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, with an emphasis on her sustainable homestead in Abiquiu, New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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Summary: "In his first full-length work of non-fiction, the daring novelist and critic Blake Butler details his epic struggle with insomnia, and its unexpected consequences on his imagination, his creative process, and his perspective on reality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.84 BUTCarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARBlackmarr, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8823 BLACarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARRay, Janisse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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Summary: "A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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Summary: "A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life--his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAZZARD, KEVIN M HAZRembert, Winfred
Summary: "A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery-a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REMBERT, WINFRED REMBrownridge, Lucy
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From humble beginnings living on a prairie farm, to taking the New York art scene by storm, to living a solitary life in the New Mexican desert, find out how Georgia's extraordinary life unfolded and how each place changed the ways her paintings came out. See how her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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Summary: Gail Lumet Buckley, daughter of actress Lena Horne, delves deeply into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War to civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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Summary: Uniting 28 paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe from collections all over the United States with 32 stunning images by the pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz, this book focuses on the two artists' work, their stormy and passionate marriage, and the influence they had on one another's pictures. The photographic historian Peter-Cornell Richter perfectly captures this aspect in his sensitive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2006