Puleo, Stephen

Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Paelissier, Staephan

Summary: "The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Staephan Paelissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison bythe Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2021

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Wilkes, Stephany

Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018

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Talty, Stephan.

Summary: Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Talty, Stephan

Summary: "The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice-a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2020

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Kverneland, Steffen

Summary: "An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2016

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Talty, Stephan

Summary: The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Jagger, Steph

Summary: "In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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Pauley, Jane

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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Zullo, Allan.

Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010

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Stephens, Olin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Seaport Museum 1999

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Culmo, Kaitlin

Summary: "There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as it has been written. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023

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Sileo, Tom.

Summary: "Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Huler, Scott.

Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004

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Van Stappen, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Oak Press 1998

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Lohman, Eric

Summary: When their daughter Rosie was born, Eric and Stephani Lohman found themselves thrust into a situation they were not prepared for. Born intersex--a term that describes people who are born with a variety of physical characteristics that do not fit neatly into traditional conceptions about male and female bodies--Rosie's parents were pressured to consent to normalizing surgery on Rosie, without...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018

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Steen, Michael.

Summary: Studies the social, cultural, and political spheres that affected the lives and works of approximately 50 composers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004

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Zullo, Allan.

Summary: Five times throughout a fierce firefight, Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya spots an injured comrade in the street. And five times Scott disregards his own safety and rushes out into the open, braving enemy fire to rescue each wounded Marine. Staff Sergeant Chad Malmberg and his small band of soldiers are outnumbered ten to one against well-armed insurgents and they're running out of ammo....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011

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Paley, Rebecca

Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. It took a lot of determination, courage, and confidence to become the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. A Girl Named Hillary tells of the defining moments that made up her childhood and adolescence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

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Catudal, Steph

Summary: "When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Jagger, Steph

Summary: "A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests her body and soul, in this transformative memoir, full of heart and courage, that speaks to the adventurousness in all of us. Steph Jagger had always been a force of nature. Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women growing up, she emulated the men in her life--chasing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017

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Rosas, Julio

Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022

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Coelho, Paulo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007

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