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Hickok, Lorena A Fiction Married people United States Correspondence Mather, Jennifer A Octopuses Presidents United States Correspondence Presidents' spouses United States Correspondence Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Fiction Spanish language materials War correspondents United States Biography World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanRoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOMcNees, Kelly O'Connor
Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNBloom, Amy
Summary: "Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLOBloom, Amy
Summary: Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bloom 2018Quinn, Susan
Summary: A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation QuinnMontgomery, Sy
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREHenderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 HENMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Contents: Songs and dances of death. Lullaby (4;56) ; Serenade (4:27) ; Trepak (4:54) ; The field-marshal (5:29) -- Symphony no. 14. De profundis (García Lorca) (4:47) ; Malagueña (García Lorca) (2:51) ; Lorelei (Apollinaire) (9:06) ; The suicide (Apollinaire) (8:02) ; On watch (Apollinaire) (3:13) ; Madam, look! (Apollinaire) (2:17) ; At the Santé Jail (Apollinaire) (9:17) ; The Zaporozhian Cossacks'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SHOKerouac, Jack
Summary: The novella, set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore year at Boston College, Peter finds himself conflicted. Like many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 ROONEY, ANDREW ROORooney, Andrew A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ROONEY, ANDY ROOLiebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)
Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIEHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 ARECronkite, Walter
Summary: Walter Cronkite, a giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation," reveals his World War II experiences in this fascinating book. Cronkite married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of his life, and their marriage lasted happily until her death in 2005. But before they celebrated their second anniversary, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 CRONKITE, WALTER CROHale, Nathan
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HIGHughes, Langston
Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGBennitt, John.
Summary: "In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters. In them he shared his careful and detailed observations of army life, including dramatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.775 BENAdams, John
Contents: Love sweetens life, October 1762-July 1774 -- The decisive day is come, August 1774-December 1775 -- We are determined to foment a rebelion, January-October 1776 -- Kind providence has preserved to me a life, January-November 1777 -- I cast my thoughts across the Atlantick, February 1778-April 1782 -- A signal tryumph, July 1782-March 1788 -- The most insignificant office, December 1788-January...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADABehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHEdwards, Harold W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.041 AIDSummary: After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADYReagan, Nancy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000