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Roosevelt, Theodore

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 ROO

Summary: "Included are narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789), who were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SLA

Dos Passos, John

Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 DOS

Thoreau, Henry David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THO

Adams, John

Summary: "Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADA

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOC

Contents: pt. 1. American journalism 1959-1969 -- pt. 2. American journalism 1969-1975.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 REP

Fussell, Paul

Summary: Looks at World War II in Europe, from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, from the perspective of the American infantry soldiers who fought, capturing the horrors and hardships of battle while dealing with issues of leadership, strategy, and tactics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FUS

Irving, Washington

Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRV

Parkman, Francis

Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old regime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.01 PAR

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 Chauc

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Summary: The suppression of the African slave-trade -- The souls of Black folk -- Dusk of dawn -- Essays and articles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DUB

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 RET

Bartram, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 BAR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Newberry Library by the University of Oklahoma Press 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ATL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 Atl

Kerr, Daisy.

Summary: An illustrated introduction to knights describing their duties, training, armor, weapons, methods of warfare, and place in medieval society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.17 KER

O'Connor, George

Summary: "The Olympians saga draws to a close with the tale of Dionysos, the last Olympian, and maybe, just maybe, the first of a new type of God. His story is told by the first Olympian herself, Hestia, Goddess of the hearth and home. From her seat in the centerof Mt. Olympus, Hestia relates the rise of Dionysos, from his birth to a mortal mother, to his discovery of wine, his battles with madness and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022

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Danziger, Edmund Jefferson

Summary: This book tells the story of the Chippewa Indians in the regions around Lake Superior-the fabled land of Kitchigami. It tells of their woodland life, the momentous impact of three centuries of European and American societies on their culture, and how the retention of their tribal identity and traditions proved such a source of strength for the Chippewas that the federal government finally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1990

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Laughlin, Kara L.

Summary: "A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAU

Jefferson, Thomas

Contents: Autobiography -- A summary view of the rights of British America -- Notes on the State of Virginia -- Public papers -- Addresses, messages, and replies -- Miscellany -- Letters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1984

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 JEF

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 JEF

Borgert-Spaniol, Megan

Summary: "You're cooking for a crowd, but you're in a hurry. What do you do? Become a 15-minute foodie and quickly prepare for your party! Turn regular sandwich fixings into cute sandwich skewers. Mix a batch of refreshing sherbet punch. These quick, fun, yummy recipes will be ready to serve in 15 minutes or less. Using basic kitchen supplies and techniques and step-by-step instructions, young chefs...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5 BOR

O'Connor, George

Summary: Retells in graphic novel format the story from Greek mythology of Hephaistos, the god of fire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019

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Latta, Sara L.

Summary: "Looks at front-line workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, such as doctors, nurses, store workers, and delivery people who are all helping in everyday life. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.35 LAT

Laughlin, Kara L.

Summary: General information about what a pandemic is, examples of various pandemics throughout history, and ways humanity can fight future pandemics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 LAU

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