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Penguin lives seriesBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA BRICahill, Thomas.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN XXIII, POPE CAHMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A biography which looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of the great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, who became a reluctant leader at the battle of Little Big Horn and remains a mythic figure in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking Book 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAZY HORSE MCMJohnson, Paul
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAPOLEON JohnsonWhite, Edmund.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PROUST, MARCEL WHIMarty, Martin E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUTHER, MARTIN MARNicolson, Nigel.
Summary: Recalls the ties between his family and the novelist and childhood moments spent with her, discussing her walks around his ancestral home, the progression of her well-known works, and her philosophy towards women's issues and war.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA NICWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: A biography of Marlon Brando explores the sexuality, passion, and sensitivity that fueled this film icon's rise to superstardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRANDO, MARLON BOSHarrison, Kathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking 2003