Lowry, Beverly.

Contents: Araminta -- Dorchester : birth -- Childhood -- At Polish Mills : a shower of fire -- The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads -- Sold and carried away : the slave-holder's choice -- Marriage -- Over the line -- Family -- Rescues, promises -- Becoming Moses -- With John Brown : dreams, metaphor -- Last rescue -- The General -- Beaufort, South Carolina -- The proclamation, the raid -- Raining...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007

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Lowrey, Jim

Summary: A brief description of some of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's students, activites, and teachings from 1968-1973, by a member of the Pygmy Farm, a hippie commune in Boulder, Colorado.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horse 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOW

Birch, Beverley.

Summary: Follows the life of the statesman who was a key figure in India's fight for independence from Great Britain.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Children's Books 1990

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GANDHI BIR

Lowry, Lois

Summary: "From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner KenardPak"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LOW

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word Lowry

Lowery, Linda

Summary: A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BROWN STR

Nichols, Beverley

Summary: In this, the second volume of the Merry Hall trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 NIC

Nichols, Beverley

Summary: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1999

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Lowry, Rich.

Summary: Revered today across the political spectrum, Abraham Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold, and helped give birth to the modern industrial economy. Lincoln's vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Mowry, Tia.

Summary: "Oh, Baby! tells moms-to-be what pregnancy really entails, in a funny, matter-of-fact, tell-it-like-it-is voice"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 MOW

Sichol, Lowey Bundy.

Summary: "From an Idea to Disney is a behind-the-movie-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest entertainment empire. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company behind the world's favorite mouse, Mickey!"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J 384.8 SIC

Glover, Lorri

Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 GLO

Gherman, Beverly.

Summary: Describes the life and work of the popular American artist who depicted subjects including children, family scenes, astronauts, and the poor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROCKWELL GHE

Weintraub, Beverly

Summary: "This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2021

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Mowry, George Edwin

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1958

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Lower, Jan

Summary: "This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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Gooden, Beverly

Summary: "When survivors of domestic violence reveal their predicaments, the first question many ask is "Why did you stay?" Here, an abuse survivor answers that question through her own story of survival and offers help to those who want to leave and rebuild theirlives"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

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Gage, Beverly

Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Angel, Ann

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1992

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PASTEUR ANG

Norry, E. L.

Summary: "As a lawyer and political activist, he led the fight for equality for all in his homeland, and despite being imprisoned unfairly for many years, he became the first black president of South Africa"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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McCagg, Tory

Summary: "In 2012, McCagg and her husband built a solar-powered house in New Hampshire. It was to be a weekend getaway, with cats and chicks in tow, but they ended up moving there permanently when they learned their rooster would be banned back home in Rhode Island. While chicken kerfuffles lighten the mood, this is a story born of heartbreak, of yearning for the great beauty of the world as it used to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Hungry Wolf, Beverly.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HUN

Bilski, Tory

Summary: "A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses. Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while. When they first came to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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King, Kathleen

Summary: "The founder of the world-renowned Tate's Bake Shop shares how her obsession with baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie as a child led to her starting a cookie company that grew into a multimillion-dollar empire"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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