Slovo, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLOHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURSandler, Martin W
Summary: Describes what happened when a slave ship packed with plunder was captured by pirates in 1717 then sunk by a brutal storm. Tells the story of the 1984 expedition to locate the wreck and what was uncovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 SANMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MOZDurkin, Hannah
Summary: "Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "A beautiful love letter to Black joy, as a source of self-preservation and survival as well as a form of resistance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "The more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes. The Fun Habit shows readers that fun, unlike happiness, is an action you can take almost anywhere, anytime. Fun is connected to behavior and habits rather than goals, which means it's possible to get more fun into your life with intention. Whether you're a frustrated happiness-seeker looking for a new approach, a success-oriented hustler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "Konštantin Culen was the first Slovak writer to undertake systematic research in the history of the American Slovaks, and the first to write a part of that history. He prepared many rich chapters on the history of parishes, movements, organizations, societies...Culen was the first to bring about a rapprochement between Slovak America and the land of its origins. And had he accomplished nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0049 CULPollack, Pam
Summary: "Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight! The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 POLRoberts, Robin
Summary: "Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. With a deeply personal touch, she explains that just like any skill, optimism requires practice and demonstrates how we can shift our mindsets and give ourselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ROBVan Oosbree, Ruthie
Summary: "Would you like to add more joy to the world? Get crafting! Create a joke jar to help people when they need a laugh. Craft a set of bamboo chimes to make cheerful music. Stitch a cute pocket "hug" to remind a loved one you care. These fun crafts will help you spark joy in your home, at school, in your community, and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 745.5083 VANCapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the treasured intergenerational bonds of love and joy that connect everyone everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAPButtafuoco, Mary Jo.
Summary: Mary Jo Buttafuoco's life as a suburban wife and mother in sleepy Massapequa, New York, ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her own front porch. The 'Long Island Lolita' saga sparked a media frenzy. As the years passed and Mary Jo steadfastly stood by her man while Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher continued to make headlines, one question lingered in the minds of women everywhere:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTTAFUOCO, MARY JO BUTJacobovici, Simcha
Summary: "From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost two million died at sea. Throughout this journey we meet the remarkable group, Diving With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 JACPilcher, Rosamunde
Summary: A collection of Rosamunde Pilcher's most enduring short stories, never before published in book form. The collection contains fifteen stories, which range from The Holiday, in which a wife surprises her husband of twenty-five years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; The Eye of Love which takes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILGay, Ross
Summary: "A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUCharney, Noah
Summary: "In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together the ancient stories with nuanced analysis to illuminate their place at the heart of Slavic tradition. While Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprised of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland), and South Slavs (the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.18 CHARyan, James G.
Summary: Sligo's population of about 60,000 in 1792 rose to over 180,000 by the mid 1800s when trade was dominated by the flax, wool and linen industries serving the textile trade. This book sets out the records available for Sligo, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect in tracing Sligo families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 RyanJones, John Isaac
Summary: "John Isaac Jones' new biographical novel of Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulence of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2020
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Summary: ""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAMScieszka, Jon.
Summary: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCISummary: "For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's native peoples. For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold -- the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PLYLove, Bobby
Summary: "The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021