Treuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TRELeeson, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1755 LEEFeldman, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.5 FELBestul, J. Scott
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALWEY, KENNY BESJamison, Kay R.
Summary: "The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 JAMRivera Garza, Cristina
Summary: "In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RIVKemp, Guy
Summary: As his life unfolds before you, Guy Kemp shares his experiences and life-changing decisions during his first 72 years, after his adoption at age four. Life with a new family, a new name, and frequent change of surroundings comes with challenges. But Guy faces the obstacles head-onand learns to handle adversity in his own, interesting -- and sometimes surprising ways. He takes you across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lovstad Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEMP, GUY KEMWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Colorfully illustrated story of an eagle that inspired a Wisconsin infantry unit in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America WarginCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardCastner, Brian
Summary: "A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 CASBunge, Nancy L.
Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUNAlderson, Jo Bartels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1998
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3775 ALDDe Courcy, Anne
Summary: "In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 DE CEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKLovell, Mary S
Summary: The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 LOVHamilton, Richard L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R. L. Hamilton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7475 HAMHeinerth, Jill
Summary: "From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today--and one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEINERTH HEIMora, Francisco de la
Summary: Explores the passions and contradictions--both human and political--that turned the prolific and brilliant painter, Diego Rivera, into an increasingly universal cultural figure Diego Rivera was a revolutionary painter in more ways than one. Attending art school at 11, by his twenties he was counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVERA, DIEGO MORRivera, Chita
Summary: "She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero--until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores--the irreverent side of the sensual, dark, and ferocious Chita--was always present and influential in creating some of Broadway's most iconic roles, including Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVERA, CHITA RIVCenser, Jane Turner
Summary: "Tells the life of Amelie Rives, a talented, privileged young woman who was one of the most famous women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. This account of Rives's substantial literary career and her personal saga provides insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South. Censer contextualizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVES, AMELIE CENMosler, Layne.
Summary: "A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSLER, LAYNE MOSDombrowski, Chris
Summary: "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem DombrowskiRivers, Melissa
Summary: Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would call when she got a little out of hand. Her daughter and best friend, Melissa. Jo an and Melissa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVERS, JOAN RIVDuLong, Jessica.
Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009