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Tapper twins 1Aleksievich, Svetlana
Summary: "Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style of oral history, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism. As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.403 OSTWooten, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsmith Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WOO1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 811.54 WOO
Summary: A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 ITHIsay, Dave
Summary: "StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project's rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ISASmith, Larry.
Summary: Celebrating the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for bravery in combat, Beyond Glory is the first oral history of living Medal of Honor recipients, providing, in their own words, the stories of the enlisted men and officers who have endured nearly unimaginable scenes of combat. Since the Medal of Honor was established during the Civil War in 1862, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMITerkel, Studs
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1992
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Summary: "An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie; Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie : American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick. Now, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from--Los Angeles--and a mythic cast of fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 STEJames, Marlon
Summary: On December 3, 1976, gunmen stormed Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing, nearly killing all inside. Marley left the country three days later, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts, this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMSummary: The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LISHoliday, Samuel
Summary: "Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Under the Eagle ranges from Holiday's childhood years in rural Monument Valley, Utah, into the world of the United States's Pacific campaign against Japan--to Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Central to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: RelationIsayButler, Isaac
Summary: The oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and an exuberant backstage tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 BUTJames, Marlon
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: The history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it first hand. The editors create for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like-how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PACAlda, Arlene
Summary: The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees’ play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew’s CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ALDKorth, Philip A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.8832 KORCunningham, Chet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.545 CUNSummary: From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 ISAFrisch, Karen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry 1990
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FRISCRitchie, Donald A.
Summary: "Doing Oral History has become one of the premier resources in the field of oral history. It explores all aspects of oral history, from starting an oral history project--including funding, staffing, and equipment--to conducting interviews, publishing, videotaping, preserving materials, teaching oral history, and using oral history in museums and on the radio. In this second edition, the author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 RITRodkey, Geoff
Summary: An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015