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Authors, American 20th century Biography Darrow, Clarence 1857-1938 Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Electrical engineers United States Biography Inventors United States Biography Lawyers United States Biography Masson, Charles 1800-1853 Medal of Honor United States White, Edmund 1940- Homes and haunts France ParisStillman, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Friends of the Okemos Library] 1956
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377426 StillmanStillman, Deanne
Summary: Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 STILStillman, Deanne
Summary: In this noirish mother-son tale playing out across the Wild West of mid-twentieth century America, published on the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a critically acclaimed writer investigates the short, troubled life of the ordinary man and his mother who took down the leader of the so-called Free World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 STIWhite, Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIMBAUD, ARTHUR WHIWhite, Edmund.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PROUST, MARCEL WHIMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EDISON MORMorris, Edmund.
Summary: Describes Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as he faced the challenges of a new century in which the United States would become a world power, and discusses his accomplishments and failures, the enemies he made, and his family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: "City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his erotic entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHIRichardson, Edmund
Summary: "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASSON, CHARLES RICWhite, Edmund
Summary: The book's title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHIMetatawabin, Edmund
Summary: In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff and teachers inflicted on students. Years later, in seeking healing, Metatawabin participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 METWhite, Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944.36 WHIMorgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears)
Summary: Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 920 MORTillman, Laura
Summary: "In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TILLTallman, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.132 TALLGillman, Melanie
Summary: "Explore the story of Amelia Earhart as she embarks on her second and final journey around the globe. A story of determination, heart, and courage, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into the daring grit of the aviation pioneer--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that fly off the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GILMorgan, Edmund Sears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 FRALove, Edmund G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVMillman, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.19 MILHagen, Louis Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellmount 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 HAGSilliman, Sue Imogene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.344 SillimanBolles, Edmund Blair
Contents: A radical fact resisted -- The opposite of an intriguer -- Not German at all -- I never fully understood it -- Independence and inner freedom -- A mercy of fate -- Picturesque phrases -- Scientific dada -- Such a devil of a fellow -- Intuition and inspiration -- Bold, not to say reckless -- A completely new lesson -- Slaves to time and space -- Where all weaker imaginations wither -- A triumph...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 BOLDe Waal, Edmund.
Summary: Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012