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Summary: The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KINHoneycutt, Kirk
Summary: Hughes allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied cinema. And he spent most of his incredible career in the Midwest, far from the Hollywood Hills. John Hughes was indeed one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers in Hollywood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Race Point Publishing, A division of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HONKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models. In a brief, remarkable life, Chekhov rose from lower-class, provincial roots to become a physician, leading writer, and philanthropist, all in the face of a progressive fatal disease. In this new biography, Michael C. Finke analyzes Chekhov's major stories, plays, and nonfiction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEKHOV, ANTON FINKidd, Thomas S.
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS KIDKing, Dean
Summary: "In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN KINKing, Neil
Summary: "A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City--an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr's desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, NEIL, JR. KINKing, Ross
Summary: "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINKang, Myŏng-sŏk
Summary: "After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. In doing so, BTS nurtures the power to build brighter days and they choose to take another step on a road that no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 KANFine, Karen R.
Summary: "All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian in a field historically dominated by men, and how, through her work both with her patients and their people, she comes to better understand humanity, mortality, and the unique role animals play in our lives. Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 FINAndersen, Christopher P.
Summary: "Since the day Charles Philip Arthur George was born, he has been groomed to be King. After more than seventy years of waiting, he finally ascends the throne. The King examines the private life of this historically important and controversial figure, set against the grand, thousand-year sweep of the British monarchy. This richly detailed biography covers it all, from his military training to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLES III ANDBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYGibson, Karen Bush
Summary: "Real-world technology projects pair up with ... biographies of female computer scientists to make a ... book that will have kids ages 8 to 11 eager to develop their own apps"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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Summary: "Every weekday for decades, a kind man named Mister Rogers stepped through a door in his TV house, spoke directly into the camera while he changed from street clothes into a cardigan and sneakers, and sang, "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Offering unconditional love, this soft-spoken icon was a household name for tens of millions of children, as well as their parents who grew up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2018
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Summary: "Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DARDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Most people know Coretta Scott King as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader. Coretta's march on freedom road made her a great leader, too. Alice Faye Duncan blends poetry and prose to follow Coretta from a challenging childhood in segregated Alabama, to music training in Boston, to her brave years as a wife, mother, and activist fighting for equal rights and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING DUNPick-Goslar, Hannah
Summary: "Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICK-GOSLAR GOSHerman, Gail
Summary: Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KINGSanchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (Mar©Ưa Isabel)
Summary: Presents information about Ada Lovelace, from her childhood in England and her studies in mathematics to her development of the first computer programming language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOVLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Mainly remembered for his six marriages and his self-appointment as the "Supreme Head of the Church of England," Henry VIII was also attractive, educated, and athletic. When Henry Tudor ascended to the English thrown at the age of 17, his reign looked promising. But by the time of his death in 1547, King Henry VIII was characterized as an extremely egotistical, harsh, and insecure king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018