Faber, Eli
Summary: "Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and11) in June 1944. This made Stinney the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. In 2014, a circuit court judge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 FABSaslow, Eli
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a powerful account of Derek Black's journey from white supremacist hero to apostle of tolerance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DEREK SASHessler, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.104 HESHessler, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.138 HESBlack Elk
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK ELK NEISummary: Fourteen children's book artists draw their favorite foods and explain why they love them, using short stories, statements, and poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARRoberts, Keiler
Summary: "Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBFessler, Ann.
Summary: This book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8298 FESMorillo, Elio
Summary: "Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORILLO, ELIO MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MORILLO MORKessler, Ronald
Summary: Investigates the relationship between the Secret Service and the presidency as reflected by the protective practices surrounding the First Ladies and children of presidents Truman through Obama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 KESKessler, Ronald
Summary: Presents an unstinting story of the forty-fifth president and the Trump White House, sharing insights into who influences the president, how he makes decisions, what he really thinks, and how he has navigated his successes and failures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KESBen-Hanan, Eli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHNietfeld, Emi
Summary: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIETFELD, EMI NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult NietfeldKessler, Lauren.
Summary: An award-winning author's journey to turn off the comfortable cruise-control of midlife and reclaim the daring of her girlhood by dancing in the world's most popular ballet, The Nutcracker, with a professional company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KESSLER, LAUREN KESKessler, Ronald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KESKessler, Ronald
Summary: The first biography of Laura Bush to be written with White House cooperation offers a look at the private world of this famously reserved woman, as well as the beliefs and attitudes that shape it. Based on interviews with her closest friends and confidantes from childhood to the present, as well as family members and administration heavyweights, Kessler paints a portrait of a woman who, even as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, LAURA KesKazan, Elia.
Contents: Beginnings, 1925-1941 -- Broadway, 1942-1949 -- Filmmaker, 1950-1953 -- Independence, 1954-1957 -- Theatre again, 1957-1961 -- Writer, 1962-1969 -- Later years, 1970-1988.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KAZFessler, Diane Burke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5475 FESWiesel, Elie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WIESEL, ELIE WIEWiesel, Elie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIESEL, ELIE WIEWiesel, Elie
Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIEWiesel, Elie
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.833 WIEWiesel, Elie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIESEL, ELIE WIEWiesel, Elie
Summary: The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1958
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7 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 WIE2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.5318 WIE