Weatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSMathieu, Jennifer
Summary: In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: YA Fiction Mathieu 2021Homans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMJohnson, Jennifer
Summary: "Explains the history of the battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.78 VANWright, Jennifer
Summary: "Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic, yet tragically overlooked, feminist heroine: a glamorous women's healthcare provider in Manhattan, known to the world as Madame Restell. A celebrity in her day with a flair for high fashion and public, petty beefs, Restell was a self-made woman and single mother who used her wit, her compassion, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESTELL, MADAME WRIWright, Jennifer
Summary: "A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered--for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure--rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WRICroll, Jennifer
Summary: "Covering everyone from Louis XIV to Prince, Bad Boys of Fashion looks at men across history who have broken the rules both in fashion and in life."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CRORead, Jennifer
Summary: "Since the early days of flight, animals have helped researchers learn how to survive in the sky, and their role continues as humanity voyages into outer space. In 1783 a rooster, a duck and a sheep were placed in a basket attached to the first hot-air balloon. In the age of rockets and space travel, many more animals have travelled into orbit, and most have returned safely to earth. This book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Formac Publishing Company Limited 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 REAZeiger, Jennifer
Summary: "Did you ever wonder how innovation happens? Or what it takes to turn a new idea into something that works? The Innovation library takes a look at people and their creative ideas." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 794.8 ZEIColby, Jennifer
Summary: The 21st Century Junior Library introduces young readers to important core content. Simple activities encourage students to look, think, make a guess, ask questions, and create. The combination of reading and inquiring helps them develop the skills needed to master content and learn and succeed in the 21st century. -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Invent ColbyFink, Jennifer L. W.
Summary: Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously rewards stereotypical masculinity and is increasingly hostile to boys. Making the world safer for women and girls is not the only reason to rethink our boy raising practices: current culture harms our boys too. Fink offers rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Parent FinkHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLMcGraw, Jennifer S.
Contents: Calendar of events -- Introduction -- The village -- The missions -- Lawless and and French values -- Women and men -- The forts -- Food and starvation -- Life and Michilimackinac -- Traders -- War and migration -- English attack Michilimackinac -- Travel -- Slaves and captives -- Brandy and vices -- Lawless Mackinac -- After.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLCarlisle, Nancy Camilla.
Summary: It is amazing what this one room--at times a harried workspace and at others the sentimental heart of the home--has meant to people over the course of more than four centuries. America's Kitchens tells the story of this important room and features New England hearths, detached kitchens on southern plantations, Spanish colonial kitchens of the Southwest, elaborate nineteenth-century kitchens in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Historic New England 2008