Medwick, Cathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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Summary: What do Yoko Ono, Psy, and Pel have in common? They are all considered immigrants of extraordinary ability. What does this distinction mean, and how can someone earn it? Readers discover the answers to these and many more questions as they explore the lives of some of the most famous immigrants of extraordinary ability. The engaging, informative text provides readers with a closer look at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 SMAKirkwood, Kathlyn J.
Summary: This moving memoir-in-verse tells about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how she went from attending protests as a teenager to fighting as an adult for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday tobecome a national holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIRKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEWKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 KRUKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Focuses on the lives of presidents as parents, husbands, pet-owners, and neighbors while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, fears, and sleep patterns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 KRUFlinn, Kathleen
Summary: This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Flinn FlinnNorris, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.843 NORCrane, Kathleen.
Summary: An autobiography of oceanographer Kathleen Crane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 CRADuVal, Kathleen
Summary: "In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "One minute you can't live without them ... the next minute you don't want them breathing your air! Siblings everywhere will relate to this humorous look at famous brothers and sisters whose important bonds have shaped their accomplishments ... (mostly) for the better."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Invent KrullKrull, Kathleen.
Contents: Leonardo da Vinci -- Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Peter Bruegel -- Sofonisba Anguissola -- Rembrandt Van Rijn -- Katsushika Hokusai -- Mary Cassatt -- Vincent Van Gogh -- Käthe Kollwitz -- Henri Matisse -- Pablo Picasso -- Marc Chagall -- Marcel Duchamp -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- William H. Johnson -- Salvador Dali -- Isamu Noguchi -- Diego Rivera -- Frida Kahlo -- Andy Warhol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 KRUKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A look at the experiences of Louisa May Alcott during the Civil War that led to the writing of Little Women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALCNorris, Kathleen
Summary: Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation NorrisKrull, Kathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 KRUKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Presents twenty true stories of athletes--mostly admirable, occasionally quirky--whose physical accomplishments create a world of thrills and spills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 KRUFlinn, Kathleen.
Summary: " The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultra-processed foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: "Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Sonia Sotomayor's path, from growing up in the projects to success in Ivy League universities to her rise in the legal profession is a true testament to the American dream. She broke the rules women were supposed to follow in her life and career, ultimately becoming the first Latino justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the third woman to serve the Court"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SOTKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "A picture-book biography on science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generation of young scientists and astronomers to reach for the stars!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TYSKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A picture book biography highlighting the life and accomplishments of magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2005