Kingston, Genevieve
Summary: Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024
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Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINSummary: It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUEglin, Anthony.
Summary: Caught up in a centuries-old family conflict when he investigates a murder on the grounds of Shugborough Hall, Laurence Kingston tracks down clues pertaining to a code contained within an ancient, unbreakable garden monument.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: "The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PAUL PAULovell, Mary S.
Summary: Portrays the ambitious, brave, and arrogant English family that gave the world Winston Churchill, describing generations of ancestors who were reckless womanizers but also triumphant military leaders all saddled with the upkeep of the family palace, Blenheim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON LOVIreland, Josh
Summary: "The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 IREThiel, J. Homer
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Homer Thiel 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 THITrethewey, Rachel
Summary: "As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TREPowell, Julie.
Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.5 POWPowell, Julie.
Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, JULIE POWLarson, Erik
Summary: In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art of being fearless.' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home Chequers; his wartime retreat Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESSummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Gouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUHamilton, Steve
Summary: New York juvenile probation officer Joe Trumbull matches wits with a deadly unknown adversary responsible for the deaths of his fiancée and other women with whom he has been involved, as he takes on an enemy intent on destroying him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHUSoames, Mary.
Summary: The youngest daughter of Winston Churchill recalls her childhood spent roaming the family's country estate, her position as one of her father's most trusted companions, and her service as a gunner in the women's auxiliary during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOAMES, MARY SOAReynolds, Jason
Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE REYKingston, Maxine Hong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KINSmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIAllende, Isabel
Summary: Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017