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Summary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOW

Enstice, Wayne

Contents: Jane Ira Bloom -- JoAnne Brackeen -- Clora Bryant -- Terri Lyne Carrington -- Regina Carter -- Marilyn Crispell -- Barbara Dennerlein -- Dottie Dodgion -- Shirley Horn -- Ingrid Jensen -- Sheila Jordan -- Diana Krall -- Abbey Lincoln -- Virginia Mayhew -- Marian McPartland -- Helen Merrill -- Maria Schneider -- Shirley Scott -- Carol Sloane -- Teri Thornton -- Cassandra Wilson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 ENS

Gerhardt, Michael J.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 GER

Achorn, Edward

Summary: "The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in America's history--Abraham Lincoln's epochal nomination as the Republican Party's candidate for president in 1860. Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a celebrated Senate bid against incumbent Stephen Douglas, his second failed Senate run, and had not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 ACH

Alford, Terry

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALF

Summary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIL

Engle, Margarita

Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENG

Carey, Charles W.

Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

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Jones-Radgowski, Jehan

Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 JON

Abley, Mark

Summary: "A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABLEY, MARK ABL

Gessner, David

Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GES

Chaffee, Kim

Summary: "As a kid, Abby Wambach was loud and clear about what she wanted and what she didn't--and she didn't want to be left out of any competition, especially soccer. Darting down fields and booting balls ... into goals, Abby worked her way up from competitive youth player to U.S. Women's National Soccer Team star."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAM

Summary: Weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham, the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator, and Mary, the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of power at a crucial time in the nation's history. Abraham Lincoln's legacy reshaped the nation while the tragedy of his death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABR

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABR

Denenberg, Barry.

Summary: Conceived as a one-year anniversary newspaper edition of Lincoln's assassination, this brilliant, beautiful, and bold biographical portrait of Abraham Lincoln mimics 19th-century newsprint, combining pen and ink drawings with archival photography, and period typography with articles surveying Lincoln's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2008

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Hochschild, Adam

Summary: For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.081 HOC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 946.081 HOC

Meacham, Jon

Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MEA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MEA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEA

Schaub, Diana

Summary: "An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments:the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 SCH

Arroyo, Raymond

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Meacham, Jon

Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LIN

Washington, John E.

Summary: "Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM WAS

Doyle, Glennon

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Summary: "There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 DOY

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, GLENNON DOY

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Doy

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DOYLE DOY

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Doyle

Kert, Bernice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROCKEFELLER, ABBY Kert

Summary: Covers all U.S. and Canadian models of Lincoln Continental, Mark VII, Mark VIII and Town Car, for model years 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.G. Nichols 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Lincoln Continental

Abrams, Dan

Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABR

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