Duncan, Dayton.

Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 DUN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUN

Sasson, Jean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.42 SAS

Sammon, Bill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAM

Sayman, Michael

Summary: "A memoir from one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, who taught himself how to code as a thirteen-year-old and claimed his share of the American Dream"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAYMAN, MICHAEL SAY

Laymon, Kiese

Summary: "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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Laymon, Kiese

Summary: "A collection of essays on family, race, violence, celebrity, music, writing, and other topics"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAYMON, KIESE LAY

Symon, Charles.

Summary: This volume affords an opportunity fo UP people to take a look at themselves and swell a bit with pride at "what we have done", and for the rest of the world to awe at what this little, sparsley settled region has produced.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RonJon Press 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 SYM

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Sarton, May

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 SAR

Styron, William

Summary: The author describes his experiences with depression and his resulting suicidal tendencies beginning in 1985.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STYRON, WILLIAM STY

Styron, William

Summary: The author chronicles his personal battles with severe depression, and offers help to others on how to overcome this disorder.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2007

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1 available in Adult- Biography, Call number: Health Mind Styron

Styron, William

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.8527 STY

Sarton, May

Summary: A journal of the 79th year of author May Sarton describing how she deals with a debilitating illness.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1992

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Sarton, May

Summary: May Sarton describes her internal and external adjustments to life on the Maine coast, where a deepening sense of solitude and oneness with the sea brought her to new heights of creative passion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1995

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O'Brien, Phillips Payson

Summary: "The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEAHY, WILLIAM D OBR

Sacco, Joe.

Summary: "From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 SAC

Haymon, S. T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAY

Florio, John

Summary: Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 345.73 FLO

Duncan, Dayton.

Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DUN

Bacon, Tony

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8719 BAC

Bacon, James

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery 1976

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 BAC

Hyde, Dayton O.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1973

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.63 HYD

Sancton, Thomas (Thomas Alexander)

Summary: "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTENCOURT, LILIANE SAN

Gilmour, Charlie Samson

Summary: "A beautiful, moving, and wildly original memoir of grief, healing, and fatherhood through the story of a young man who adopts a baby magpie"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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Hyde, Dayton O.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.74442 HYD