Borman, Tracy.
Summary: Chronicles the achievements of Matilda of Flanders, the ruthless wife of William the Conqueror, who eschewed the traditional views of women in medieval society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATILDA, QUEEN BORWorsley, Lucy.
Summary: A portrait of a 17-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War. William Cavendish, courageous and cultured, embodied the image of a cavalier. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed. General of the king's army in the north during the Civil War, defeated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.06 WORDePree, Hopwood
Summary: "HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEPREE, HOPWOOD DEPHoller, Anne.
Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOLLe Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.4 LADAmoroso, Cynthia.
Summary: A brief introduction to the life and accomplishments of the Norwiegan explorer Lief Eriksson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ERIKSSON KLILawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: "The impact of the Norman Conquest in England can't be overstated. After William of Normandy conquered the Anglo-Saxons in 1066, the very culture of England changed, from the social structure to the written language. This carefully researched and accessible volume explains the Normans' strategy, significant events on and off the battlefield, and the key figures to know about this momentous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.02 ROEAtkinson, Jay
Summary: Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter, Martha. A short distance from the village, one of the warriors murdered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 ATKMiddleton, Susie.
Summary: "Part cookbook, part memoir, Fresh from the Farm chronicles a year of Susie Middleton's life on her farm as she nurtures both her seedlings and her soul, weathers life as a farmer, and creates 125 simple recipes that celebrate cooking with the seasons. The fresh, accessible recipes developed by Susie, former editor in chief of Fine Cooking magazine and author of the best-selling Fast, Fresh &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2014
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Summary: "In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO BOURoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFLeapman, Michael
Summary: By the early eighteenth century, botanists were inching toward the shocking truth that plants had male and female organs and reproduced sexually. The first person to realize the practical implications of this was Thomas Fairchild, a London nurseyman, and celebrated author of The City Gardener. Leapman, a brilliant horticultural writer, has unearthed fascinating and colorful detail about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9152 FAIRCHILD, THOMAS LEATomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 858.912 TOMBarbero, Alessandro
Summary: "Dante brings the legendary author--and the medieval Italy of his era-- to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANTE ALIGHIERI BARPrice, David A. (David Andrew)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5425 PRIDeng, Sally
Summary: "An empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan's army"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KHUJones, Victoria Garrett.
Summary: Examines the life and actions of Pocahontas, a young Native American woman who developed a friendship with English colonist John Smith and the people of Jamestown, and who later became a Christian and married colonist John Rolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POCAHONTAS JONAptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe
Summary: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTTER, THOMAS D APTBannister, Nonna
Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: "A juvenile biography of the famous Native American woman who helped the Jamestown settlers"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POCGordon, Lyndall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIOT, T. S. GORSummary: Literary critics ranked him with Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Melville. His vibrant autobiographical novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River won Thomas Wolfe the admiration of his peers, and writers as various as Kerouac, Mailer, and Vonnegut have acknowledged a debt to him. With extracts from his personal papers as well as reviews of his work and assessments of his genius, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOLSpring, Justin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1996