Vettese, Maria Alexandra

Summary: A year's worth of photographs, recipes, letters, and crafts explores the friendship between two women who live on opposite sides of the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 VET

Nicholas

Summary: Collection of diaries and correspondence between the members of the Russian royal family and their closest friends, from the 1880s to the time of their deaths in 1918.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROMANOV FAMILY NIC

Edwards, Harold W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Pub. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.041 AID

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.912 RIL

Sobel, Dava.

Summary: Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Sobel

Sobel, Dava.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GALILEI, GALILEO SOB

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philip Wilson Publishers in collaboration with the Philipps Collection and Fondation Beyeler 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.92 CAL

Gortner, C. W.

Summary: Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage. She is brought to Russia, and marries the Romanov heir, Alexander. Once he ascends the throne, she becomes empress Maria. When their son, Nicholas, inherits the throne he is the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

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Yi, Kŭm-i

Summary: "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YI

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Hamilton, Alexander

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 HAM

Pike, Rosamund

Summary: The story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who suffered an eye injury after being struck by a grenade in Sri Lanka.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI

Summary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STO

Fuller, Kathleen

Summary: "Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild Rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family - and pretend to find a husband. Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Ricca, Brad

Summary: " 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, O RIC

Bradley, W. G. (Walter George)

Summary: "The true story of an extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease... Part travelogue, part soul-searching meditation, it is the uplifting and sometimes hilarious story of one man's conquest of death and his profound insights into life."--dust jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 BRA

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: Selections from the poetry, prose, letters and journals of Rainer Rilke.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.912 RIL

Manta, Karina

Summary: "A memoir of Karina Manta, the first female member of USA Figure Skating to come out as queer"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MAN

Colvin, Marie.

Summary: "Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. Winner of the Orwell Special Prize 'On the Front Line' is a collection of her finest work... On the Front Line includes Colvin's various interviews with Yasser Arafat and Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999 where she shamed the UN into protecting its refugees;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 904.7 COL

Velez-Mitchell, Jane

Summary: Chronicles the high-profile murder trial of Jodi Arias, focusing on Arias's history before her relationship with victim Travis Alexander and how their Mormon faith played a role in their breakup and Alexander's murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1523 VEL

Martinez, Juan

Summary: The prosecutor who convicted murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MAR

Summary: "As these poetic, innocent, funny, and wise letters make clear, kids today are striving, in ways Dr. King might not have foreseen, to make their dream come true."--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 DEA

Lang, Harry O.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sage Creek Press 1998

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANG LAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 940.5483 LAN