Woolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUSidman, Joyce
Summary: "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People SidmanBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNRobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBDarnell, John Coleman
Summary: "Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DARFraser, Flora
Summary: "A biography of Flora MacDonald, the woman who aided "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and inspired the "Skye Boat Song""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACDONALD, FLORA FRAFrancis, Richard
Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRAFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXShachtman, Tom
Summary: "In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SHALaPlante, Eve
Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAPMiles, Tiya
Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MilesFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 FONJacobovici, 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 JACOller, John
Summary: "From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 OLLSandler, 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 SANHollingsworth, Mary
Summary: "The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.1 HOLHyde, Anne Farrar
Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYDBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsSides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDSilverman, David J.
Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 SILGristwood, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.05 GRIBrower, Kate Andersen
Summary: "An intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world--the vice presidents of the modern era--from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019