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Indians of North America Wars Great Plains Keno, Leigh Keno, Leslie Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Smith College Presidents Biography South Asian Americans Ethnic identity South Asian Americans Social conditions United States World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western Front World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanKeno, 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 KENMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 CUSTER, GEORGE A MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Contents: The West without chili -- Inventing the West -- Chopping down the sacred tree -- A heroine of the prairies -- Zuni -- Cookie pioneers -- Powell of the Colorado -- Pulpmaster -- Janet Lewis -- The American epic -- Sacagawea's nickname -- Old misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001
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Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENMcMurtry, Larry
Summary: Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize Winner Larry McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th cavalry in the attack at the Littel Bighorn, Custer forged a legacy-- still very much alive today-- as one of the West's most enduring hisstorical figures" -- from publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Larry McMurtry chronicles the experiences he had while traveling through Tahiti and the South Sea Islands and shares what he learned about his parents' relationship along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMURTRY, LARRY MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 McMurFarthing, Pen.
Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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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: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A biography which looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of the great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, who became a reluctant leader at the battle of Little Big Horn and remains a mythic figure in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking Book 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAZY HORSE MCMSen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENMah, Adeline Yen
Summary: The true story of a young Chinese girl who grew up feeling unloved by her father who remarried shortly after her mother's death and treated his new family and subsequent children as upper class compared to his first children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4889 MAHCall number: 921 MAH, ADELINE YEN MAH
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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Summary: "The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVEJOY, ELIJAH ELLParker, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Horizon Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 PARKER, KEN PAR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 940.5481 PAR
Mochizuki, Ken
Summary: "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEGParker, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 940.5481 PARRappoport, Ken.
Summary: "A collective biography of the top 10 slam dunkers, both past and present, which includes accounts of game action, career statistics, and more"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323092 RAPSharp, Ken.
Summary: Oral history of the making of Double Fantasy and account of Lennon's last days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galery Books/VH1 Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 SHAWen, Leana S.
Summary: "Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most InfluentialPeople"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEN, LEANA S. WENConway, Jill Ker
Summary: From the first sentence, you will be drawn inexorably into the story of her childhood in New South Wales, Australia, and her gradual discovery of—and by—the larger world: the clarity of Conway's language satisfies like cold clear water after a day in the desert: the rhythm of her sentences has a timelessness and expansiveness akin to the Australian landscape itself. This is very likely a book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONWAY, JILL KER CONConway, Jill Ker
Summary: Conway became president of Smith, a Massachusetts women's college, in 1975 and was faced with balancing the needs of faculty, students, trustees and alumnae while reshaping the college for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001