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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FONTEYN, MARGOT DANHardman, Robert
Summary: "On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer, and peace-broker. She has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH HARBauman, Jeff.
Summary: A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAUMAN, JEFF BAUHannan, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HANHardman, Robert
Summary: "No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world. He is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 941.086 HARHardman, Robert
Summary: "A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN HARHardman, Robert.
Summary: An intimate portrait of England's longest-reigning queen, in celebration of her diamond jubilee -- and the first-ever book interview with her grandson, HRH, the Prince of Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II HARHarman, Claire.
Summary: "A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE HARHarman, Claire.
Summary: In Jane's Fame, Claire Harman gives us the complete biography--of both the author and her lasting cultural influence--making this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works, and remarkably potent fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 HARHinman, Bonnie
Summary: "The names of the Wild West's top lawmen have become famous. Famous Lawmen shows how Wyatt Earp, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and many others worked to enforce the law in a nearly lawless frontier."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 978 HINHindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
Summary: When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HindmanHallman, J. C.
Summary: "In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"--forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANARCHA HALHallman, J. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.1 HALHarman, Patricia
Summary: Recounts how the author learned to deliver babies and her experiences in rural communes, political activism, and urban counterculture in the 1970s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HARHarman, Patricia
Summary: Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women's health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia--a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes refuge. Patsy's memoir juxtaposes the tales of these women with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent and coping with personal challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HARSexton, Jared
Summary: "Based on his provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, The Man They Wanted Me to Be is both memoir and cultural analysis. Jared Yates Sexton alternates between an examination of his working class upbringing and historical, psychological, and sociological sources that examine the genesis of toxic masculinity and its consequences for society. As progressivism changes American society, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEXTON, JARED SEXHartman, Darrell
Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HARSexton, Paul
Summary: "The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world's most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century. Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATTS, CHARLIE SEXBen-Hanan, Eli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHHartman, Renée G.
Summary: "Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HARSexton, Colleen A.
Summary: Presents a biography of celebrated author, J.K. Rowling, and chronicles her life, personal and professional challenges and achievements, and how she rose from poverty to eventually set records in the publishing industry with her Harry Potter series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROWLING SexLong, David
Summary: A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 LONHill, Clint
Summary: "Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, CLINT HILWholey, Dennis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1984