Viloria, Hida
Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VILJobling, John
Summary: "John Jobling takes readers beyond the myth in this unauthorized biography to present the first comprehensive account of the illustrious Irish rockers in 25 years. Drawing on extensive interviews with insiders including record label scouts, studio presidents, politicians, music critics, and childhood friends, Jobling investigates the U2's most personal relationships and controversial business...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.7 JOBGooding, James Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7415 GOOGigliotti, Jim
Summary: Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GRIDowling, Robert M.
Summary: "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, EUGENE DOWRomanoff, Victoria
Summary: Romanoff introduces readers to twelve of the most easily foraged and delicious mushrooms, including the chanterelle, the morel, and the oyster. She describes the appearance, habits, and lore of each variety, and provides a recipe for each; her recipes include both refined kitchen creations and rustic dishes meant to be prepared over an open fire at the end of a successful hunt. Romanoff also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARHOL, ANDY BockrisCherkashin, Victor
Contents: Inside the lion's den : Washington Station -- The training of a KGB handler -- Cold War front line : Beirut -- Treason -- Intrigue at Moscow centre -- Washington Station : the redefector -- Washington Station : the most dangerous spy -- Washington Station : how to catch a spy -- Washington Station : the biggest catch : Hanssen -- The final years of the KGB -- Wild capitalism in new Russia --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHERKASHIN, VICTOR CHEKlemperer, Victor
Contents: [1]. A diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars KlempererJones, Victoria Garrett.
Summary: Examines the life and actions of Pocahontas, a young Native American woman who developed a friendship with English colonist John Smith and the people of Jamestown, and who later became a Christian and married colonist John Rolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POCAHONTAS JONLuckerson, Victor
Summary: "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 LUCRipp, Victor
Summary: "An unsentimental meditation on memory and loss that recounts the author's search for a Holocaust memorial that speaks to the death of his young cousin In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin. Two months later, Alexandre was killed in Auschwitz. To try to make sense of this act, Ripp looks at it through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RIPSebestyen, Victor
Summary: "Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH SEBBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNTentler-Krylov, Victoria
Summary: "The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. Zaha knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. She set goals for herself and followed them against all odds. A woman in a man's world, and a person of color in a white field, Zaha was met with resistance at every turn. When critics called her a diva and claimed her ideas were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books/Scholastic, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HADGiblin, James.
Summary: Examines the family life and career of the first American president, also discussing myths and legends, monuments to Washington, and Mount Vernon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992
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Summary: "A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America's greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017
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Summary: Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SKECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 920.72 SkeersMargotin, Philippe
Summary: Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 studio and 24 compilation albums, and more than a hundred singles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 ROLPollack, Pam.
Summary: "In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J.K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga. Rowling's true-life, rags-to-riches story is as compelling as the world of Hogwarts that she created. This biography details not only Rowling's life and her love of literature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ROWLINGDuncanson, John V. (John Victor)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Pub. 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 971.6 DuncansonHanson, Victor Davis.
Summary: Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2013