Gordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings GorWard, Logan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WARWard, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home WardChew, Elizabeth V.
Summary: Depicts a day with Thomas Jefferson as he and his grandson visit the vast plantation of Monticello, providing information about the gadgets and household items he reinterpreted and invented.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N Abrams Inc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 JEFSmith, Steven K.
Summary: "Letters in a mysterious journal between two sisters describe a lost collection and a missing treasure. As Sam, Derek, and Caitlin realize the letters were from Thomas Jefferson's granddaughters, they set out to do what they do best-solve the mystery! When the journal is stolen, the kids are forced to hunt down clues by following Jefferson's footsteps to The University of Virginia, his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MyBoys3 Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Virginia Smith 2019Roy, Ron
Summary: While visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, presidential stepdaughter KC Corcoran and her friend Marshall investigate the theft of a box of toy horses given to Jefferson by his grandchildren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CM 11Adams, William Howard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.46 ADAWiencek, Henry.
Summary: A reassessment of the third president draws on new archaeological studies and previously disregarded personal records to explore his contradictory views on slavery while examining what is revealed by his monetary records.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS WIEHatch, Peter J.
Summary: Traces the history of Jefferson's vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635 HATBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: An old skeleton uncovered beneath the slave quarters of Monticello and a new murder in Crozet, Virginia, bring together tiger-striped Mrs. Murphy and Welsh Corgi Tee Tucker to solve the killing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: After a shocking archaeological find at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home sparks controversy, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen goes hunting for the truth. Her friends Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat and Tee Tucker the corgi go hunting too--for a killer out to keep Harry quiet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MITButcher, Bernard Lee
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3754 B1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3754 Butch
Marcovitz, Hal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH MARBannister, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANLevine, Karen
Summary: A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 LEVCapaldi, Gina.
Summary: Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native CapaldiKrensky, Stephen
Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIGoodman, Joan E.
Summary: Traces the epic journey of the Portuguese explorer who, five years after Columbus set sail, traveled around the southernmost tip of Africa to find a sea route to India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAMSummary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIMStanley, Diane.
Summary: "Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most amazing people who ever lived. He grew up to be a great painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. As a boy, Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. But he quickly became more skillful than his teacher, and his passionate interests went far beyond art. Fascinated with the human body,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio DavinciCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DA VIN STAPrice, David A. (David Andrew)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003