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Summary: A former European entrepreneur recounts how she fell in love with Lketinga, a Masai warrior, while vacationing in Kenya and subsequently uprooted her life to move to the isolated bush country of Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8965 HOFHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Two opposition researchers take readers on a year-long journey across the United States as they investigate the backgrounds of political candidates, from presidential appointees to local school board hopefuls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.70973 HUFHofmann, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HOFRoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFLeasor, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LEALeasor, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5425 LEAClift, Eleanor.
Summary: Historical overview examining the 72 year struggle to secure women's right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.62 CLICoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASDavis, Eleanor
Summary: "In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis' comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transporation"--Koyama Press web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koyama Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VREELAND, DIANA DwightHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichés of fleeting young love, their summer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDERSON, ELEANOR HENCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SASFitzsimons, Eleanor
Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITRoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOWotkyns, Eleanor R. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scrapbook Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 920 WOTHerman, Eleanor
Summary: While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation’s leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possible the qualities needed to run for president—narcissism, a thirst for power, a desire for importance—go hand in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.099 HERRoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 ROORoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: "Experience the timeless wit and wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years. In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her regular press conferences, her activism on behalf of women, minorities, and youth, her lecture tours,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 ROOCrewes, Eleanor
Summary: A London-based illustrator, author and graphic artist illustrates her coming-of-age story as a gay woman including feeling a deep sense of not belonging, self-denial, awkward encounters, everyday courage and her first girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 CRERoosevelt, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOCoffman, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.782 COFCoerr, Eleanor.
Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 1999