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Authors, English Benefactors Ohio Canton Biography Benevolence Ohio Canton History 20th century Canton (Ohio) Biography Canton (Ohio) Economic conditions 20th century Canton (Ohio) History 20th century Dalton family Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Stone, Samuel 1887-1981 Women BiographyPaxton, Shelley
Summary: "High-flying Harley-Davidson executive Shelley Paxton had an enviable life by most measures - money, travel, excitement. Yet the trappings of success hid a growing discontent, which spiraled into addiction, divorce and despair before a long-overdue breakforced her to face all the fears and dreams she'd been ignoring. She left a 26-year corporate career and took a "Soulbattical" - a deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 PAXWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Gup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPGup, Ted.
Summary: During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.16 Gup 2010First Reformed Church of Easton (Easton, Pa.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1973
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1Reef, Catherine
Summary: A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHESummary: The original nominal return of the various nineteenth-century censuses are among the most commonly used and most useful of genealogical sources, providing the name, age, birthplace, ethnic origin, and occupation of every resident at a point in time, in this instance 2 April 1871. It is the only source that comes close to being a comprehensive listing of the population. Why 1871? There are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3713 INDGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "This is the story of Kiyo Sato and her family and their experience in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during WWII."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SATYoung, Rosamond McPherson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 YOUNG, ROSAMOND YOUHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HARJudge, Lita
Summary: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 JUDGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.162Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUPBlake, Kevin
Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Salton Sea resort area was a vacationers paradise. People looking to go boating, swimming, and fishing flocked to Californias largest lake. Homes, hotels, and shops sprang up as more and more people moved to the region. However, something was lurking in the lakes calm waters. Soon, swimmers began to pass by globs of green algae and breathe in a rotten-egg stench....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 BLASummary: Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban South California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Video 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Church 1900
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377467 UnitedWexler, Laura
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 WEXContents: Plat book of Newaygo County, Michigan ([1900]) -- Farm plat book (1955) -- Farm plat book with index to owners (1962) -- Tri-annual atlas & plat book (1965) -- Triennial atlas & plat book (1968, 1971) -- Atlas & plat book (1974, 1977) -- Land atlas & plat book (1980) -- Land atlas and plat book (1982) -- Land atlas, plat book and sportsman's guide (1983, 1986, 1988) -- Land atlas, plat book,...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1900
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Newaygo 2010-11Summary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMBrown, Mark Herbert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 BROMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMcGrath, Robyn
Summary: "A picture book biography of music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton celebrating resilience, confidence, and unfailing kindness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022