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Summary: "Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay for college. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GONELL, AQUILINO GONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GONELL GONVowell, Sarah
Summary: On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VOWSimmons, Ruth
Summary: "I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMMONS, RUTH SIMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio SimmonsStillman, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Friends of the Okemos Library] 1956
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377426 StillmanStine, Megan
Summary: "Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURMorhard, Ruth Hanford
Summary: "As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard's daughter-in-law recounts the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the woman who established the first boys' baseball league in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019