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Boyd, Herb 1938- Craniofacial dysostosis Patients Biography Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Henley, Ariel 1992- Health Legislators United States Biography Presidents Prince, Duke of Sussex Harry 1984- United States United States. Congress. House Biography Washington, George 1732-1799Charrière, Henri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 CHAGeary, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25092 HELHeaney, Katie
Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEANEY, KATIE HEAHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEAGeary, Rick
Summary: "An authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid's brief and turbulent life." --Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 GEAParker, Marjorie Blain.
Summary: Presents the life and work of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century French artist, imagining his art-inspired childhood and growth into becoming one of the most admired artists in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books For Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MATDery, Mark
Summary: From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOREY, EDWARD DERLévy, Bernard Henri.
Contents: Le voyage en Amérique -- First visions -- Moving west -- The Pacific wall -- Desert vertigo -- Gone with the South -- Eye of the hurricane -- The beautiful and the damned -- Reflections -- What does it mean to be an American? -- American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs) -- Has America gone mad? -- Postscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEVHealy, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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Summary: "It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PRINCE HARRY HARMcLain, Denny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sporting News Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 MCLHarry
Summary: Before losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. Because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. From the beginning, his romance with Meghan was preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Here Prince Harry tells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HARHort, Lenny.
Summary: Introductory biography of the first president of the United States. George Washington is often called the father of our country. He beat the odds to lead the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, served as first president of the United States, and then retired from public life to farm Virginia's largest plantation. In this groundbreaking new series, DK brings together fresh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASPetry, Ann Lane
Summary: A biography of the famous woman who worked to free her people on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1955
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Summary: "In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHENEY, RICHARD B CHEHungry Wolf, Beverly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HUNHenley, Ariel
Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENSouter, Gerry.
Summary: Documents the life and career of the sixth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ADAMS SOUMerry, Robert W.
Summary: Merry examines how, in a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny by expanding its territory across the continent. b&w photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLK, JAMES K MERBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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Summary: "A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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4 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHENEY, LIZ CHE1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHENEY CHECheney, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1993
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Summary: "With suicide rates exploding and the rates of mental health diagnoses increasing, there has never been a greater need to grapple with the complexities of the troubled mind. Terri Cheney knows this first hand. In her bestselling memoir, Manic, Cheney offered a gripping, no-holds-barred account of her bipolar disorder that nearly killed her. Now, in Modern Madness, she brings her narrative gifts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020