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Tompert, Ann.

Summary: Retells some of the legends associated with Saint Valentine, a third-century Christian priest who was executed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 TOM

Platt, Christine

Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLA

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA

Demi.

Summary: Recounts pivotal events in the history and life of Saint Nicholas, including how he came to be associated with Christmas and Santa Claus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday Demi

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Documents the life of the fifteenth-century French teenage peasant who led an army into battle and became a saint.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOA

Castor, Helen

Summary: "In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOAN OF ARC CAS

Poole, Josephine.

Summary: A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JOAN POO

Demi.

Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 DEM

Fritz, Jean.

Summary: A brief biography of the Irish saint who was known for his love of books and his missionary work throughout Scotland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1981

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Hodges, Margaret

Summary: Relates the story of Offero, whose service to Jesus brought him the name of Christopher the Christ-bearer and caused him to be the patron saint of travelers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.1 HOD

Bustard, Ned

Summary: "Learn about the life of Saint Nicholas and discover why he became known as one of the greatest giftgivers of all time"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Kids 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NIC

Medwick, Cathleen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TERESA OF AVILA MED

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

2 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-Attisha

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club Kit

Hodges, Margaret.

Summary: A young man rejects his wealthy background to lead a life of poverty and good works, always befriending animals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1991

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 HOD

Swisher, Kara

3 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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Elliott, David

Summary: "David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 944 ELL

Chen, Katherine J.

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chen

Tompert, Ann.

Summary: The legend of Martin de Porres, and how he rids a monastery of mice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2002

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Shine, Neal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.34 SHI

Nardo, Don

Summary: Describes the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc, along with biographical information and facts about the political and social forces that led to her being burned at the stake as a witch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 Nardo

Van Sciver, Noah

Summary: "Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, JOSEPH VAN

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

Summary: "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ULR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.309 ULR

Barthel, Joan.

Summary: "In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SETON, ELIZABETH ANN BAR

Spoto, Donald

Summary: In Reluctant saint, Donald Spoto shows us a Saint Francis who transcends the image of Francis familiar to even the least religious among us. Spoto's unprecedented access to unexplored archives and the saint's own unpublished letters help reveal how Francis pioneered an entirely new historical movement, one that eventually slipped from his grasp. Spoto highlights Francis's position within the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Compass 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.3 SPO

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