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Summary: After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 PERMorrison, Eliza
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.5 MORHubbard, Ben
Summary: "Sea monsters have a long history in lore and literature. Homer first wrote of them in 700 BCE. What Do We Know About the Kraken? lets curious young readers explore what we actually know about this mysterious sea monster's long history. Dive into the facts behind this massive squid-like creature that was first described using the word "Kraken" in the beginning of the eighteenth century. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: CASE NO. 002: THE ROCK. June 12, 1962. SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA. 7:18 A.M. A corrections officer at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary tries to awaken inmate AZ-1441, Frank Morris. But when he shakes the unresponsive man, his head rolls off the pillow and crashes to the floor! Soon the guards realize that Morris and two other inmates, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, had done the seemingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 365.641 SULSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVBurdick, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Todtri Productions 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.0942 BURHickman, Joseph
Summary: Provides an insider's account of the capture, detention, and torture of Abu Zubaydah, arguing that his case has been used as a way for American authorities to sell the ℗₃"War on Terror" to the American people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 HICLupiano, Vincent dePaul
Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shooting Star Press 1991
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Summary: "The untold story of Hollywood's most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s, Joan Harrison, who grew from being the worst secretary Alfred Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the "Master of Suspense.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, JOAN LANKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580.9 SABTodd, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.2 TODHarkema, Graci
Summary: A diversity, equity and inclusion expert committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their true selves traces her own path to finding her place in the world, revisiting her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in GrandRapids, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARKEMA, GRACI HARPoulson, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apple Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 821.8 PoulsSobel, Dava.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, JOHN SOBGregory, Philippa
Summary: "Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Explore the Grand Canyon's layers from the nearly 2-billion-year-old rocks of the Pre-Cambrian Era to the few formations of the Mesozoic Era. Learn about the different kinds of rock that make up the canyon and how the Colorado River carved them into the majesty of the Grand Canyon today. Additional features include a diagram labeling each of the layers, Fast Facts, a phonetic glossary, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.132 LONElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYSmith, Sally Bedell
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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Summary: Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017