Felt, Hali.

Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012

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Child, Deborah M.

Summary: "In this richly illustrated biography, the author follows in the footsteps of Richard Brunton, a British grenadier who fought in the American Revolution before deserting in 1779. A trained engraver and diesinker, his primitive but charming works include some of the earliest pre-printed family registers in America. Despite his many talents and efforts, he was never able to make an honest living...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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De Hart, Jane Sherron

Summary: "The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER DEH

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Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRO

Summary: "This volume contains data abstracted from Maryland histories that name immigrant ancestors, and in most cases provides information on at least one generation in America. Many entries give family residence in the old country."--Page [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2007

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 REA