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Summary: A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JOAN POOBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuAngell, Roger.
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGRoss, Josephine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 ROSWilkinson, Josephine
Summary: The truth behind the mystery of European history's most famous prisoner. It is time his story was retold for a new audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 ROSAngel, Ann
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1992
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PASTEUR ANGAngers, Trent.
Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, HUGH ANGMandela, Nelson
Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...
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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 MANDELA, NELSON MANAngell, Roger
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGMandela, Nelson
Summary: "An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANHoelterhoff, Manuela.
Summary: A wickedly funny look at opera today - the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos - and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HOESantoni, Manuela
Summary: "Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 AUSMandela, Nelson
Contents: Struggle -- Freedom -- Reconciliation -- Nation building -- Development -- Education -- Culture -- Religion -- Health -- Children -- Heroes -- Peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANSpinelli, Angelo M.
Contents: Angelo Spinelli's narrative and photographs -- North Africa -- Captured! -- Stalag IIIB-Fürstenberg/Oder -- Stalag IIIA-Luckenwalde -- Liberation and home -- Civilian Spinelli and his photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 SPIGarnett, Angelica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pimlico 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNETT, ANGELICA GarnettMandela, Winnie
Summary: "491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela's moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.062 MANDELA, WINNIE MANMandela, Nelson
Summary: This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON MANMandela, Winnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANAugel, William
Summary: "Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC AUGCohen, David
Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BATMandela, Nelson
Summary: Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANMandela, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 MANCaminos Oría, Josephine
Summary: If food is the universal language of love, sobremesa is the romance. Gather around the table with C-level career woman turned foodpreneur, Josephine Caminos Oría, as she cooks up a magical tale, told morsel by morsel, of some of her most memorable tableside chats—sobremesas—that provided the first-generation Argentine-American the courage to leave the safe life she knew and start over from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publishing Company 2021