Kiernan, Denise
Summary: "All across the world, among hundreds of cultures, over centuries, people have come together to give thanks. But in America, we didn't have an official Thanksgiving holiday until the 1800s. The holiday Americans know today exists because of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, a spirited letter-writing campaign, a sympathetic president, and a civil war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.2649 KIEWood, Annette.
Summary: In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDIN, TEMPLE WOOLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 SANTapert, Annette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TAPGordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings GorBunting, Josiah
Summary: "A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELWoelfle, Gretchen
Summary: "Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters, Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done. That's why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things. But in the early twentieth century, women like Jeannette couldn't vote to change the laws that failed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RANBay Pimentel, Annette
Summary: "Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Jennifer Keelan grew up battling-and overcoming-the limitations others set for her. From a lack of cutaway curbs and bus lifts to being denied enrollment at her neighborhood school, Jennifer was continually blockedfrom living the life she wanted. But after discovering the world of disability rights activism, she knew she had to use her voice to change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRATydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies)
Summary: "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A & M University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYDINGS, JOSEPH D TYDBlotner, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM BLOEpstein, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE EPSGibbs, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 GIBJebelli, Joseph
Summary: A neuroscientist takes readers on a journey around the world and through history, from nineteenth-century Germany to present day India, to examine the science and scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Schwartz, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 SCHBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Ely S. Parker (1828-1895) is one of the most unique, but little-known figures in US history. A member of the Seneca, an Iroquois nation, Parker was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age and became an interpreter for his people. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARCampbell, Joseph
Summary: A collection of conversations, interviews, speeches, and book quotes that provide insight into the thinking of philosopher and writer Joseph Campbell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 CAMLelyveld, Joseph.
Summary: In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA LELFrank, Joseph
Contents: Prelude -- The family -- The religious and cultural background -- The academy of military engineers -- The two romanticisms -- The Gogol period -- Poor folk -- Dostoevsky and the Pleiade -- Belinsky and Dostoevsky I -- Belinsky and Dostoevsky II -- The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles -- Dostoevsky and Speshnev -- The Peter-and-Paul Fortress -- Katorga -- Monsters in their misery -- Private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR FRALadapo, Joseph
Summary: "Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo shares the inspiring story of how he came to be who he is. After experiencing abuse as a child, Dr. Ladapo was incapable of connecting emotionally with other people. He was dissociated from virtually everything in his life and numbly powered through college, medical school, and residency to become a doctor and university professor. It wasn't until he fell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 LADLelyveld, Joseph
Summary: "Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN LELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT LELHickman, Joseph
Summary: Provides an insider's account of the capture, detention, and torture of Abu Zubaydah, arguing that his case has been used as a way for American authorities to sell the ℗₃"War on Terror" to the American people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books 2017