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Sanders, Rob

Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Moss, Marissa

Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for their children. This is a story about the redemptive power of terminal illness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 MOS

Jarrow, Gail

Summary: Discusses the achievements of chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, who recognized the dangers of using harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, borax, and salicyclic acid, in food and medicine and fought for safe products for consumers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 344.7304 JAR

Gregory, Paul R.

Summary: "In The Oswalds, Paul Gregory--labeled by Robert Oswald as the 'only' friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his soviet wife Marina--breaks nearly sixty years of silence to reveal how the soul of a killer took shape. Two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile in the student center at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRE

Shamir, Ruby

Summary: Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists inspire a new generation of investigative reporters as they offer tips and advice for writing stories that can make a difference.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHA

Summary: Examining the truth about celebrity actress Alyssa Milano's initial tweet of the hashtag to the take-down of Hollywood icon Harvey Weinstein, the film takes viewers deep into the rabbit hole of a movement sweeping the nation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DocTV 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MET

Abrams, Dan

Summary: Examines the story behind the bizarre trial of Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, live on national television.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ABR

Grinapol, Corinne

Summary: "Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the first openly gay elected politician in California. While in office, Harvey Milk advocated for equal rights for the gay community. Even though his life and career...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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

Kalman, Maira.

Summary: A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired after many years of fighting fires along the Hudson River, but is saved from being scrapped and then called into service again on September 11, 2001.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 974.7 KAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAL

Fisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)

Summary: William Fisher (ca. 1795-1823) arrived in America during the War of 1812 and did not return to England. He and Betsy Burnett were married in Salem, Massachusetts and their first son, John Edward Fisher was born in 1818. Their son, David, emigrated to Canada. Other descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [E.L. Fisher] 1980

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER Fisher

Larson, Erik.

Summary: Dual stories of two disparate men, one a genius, and the other a killer. The geuius is Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless communication. The murderer is the notorious Englishman, Dr. H. H. Crippen. Their lives intersect during the criminal chase.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 LAR

Larson, Erik.

Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 Lar

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Larson

Bugliosi, Vincent.

Summary: Polls reveal that over 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald; some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this absorbing and historic book--the first ever to cover the entire case--Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007

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Karp, Harvey.

Summary: Pediatrician Harvey Karp presents parents with steps necessary to help calm a crying baby.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 HAP
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 KAR

Mitman, Gregg

Summary: "An ambitious and shocking exposeÌp1(B of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.76782 MIT

Paterniti, Michael.

Summary: Follows an 84-year-old pathologist across the country with Einstein's brain in a Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delta 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 PAT

Pekar, Harvey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2007

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PEK

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont 2007

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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

Summary: Laced with comic wit, this is a story of Dr. John Kellogg's infamous spa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Kantor, Jodi

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse comes the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 KAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 KAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Kantor

Paterniti, Michael.

Summary: Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a car barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an 84 year old pathologist, Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 and then removed the brain and took it home and kept it for over 40 years. The two men and the brain leave New...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.07 PAT

Schwarz, Richard W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Pub. Association 1970

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.924 SCH

Summary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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Blake, Kevin

Summary: "Young readers will learn about the devastating Hurricane Harvey."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.4 BLA

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