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

Proust, Marcel

Summary: Brilliantly translated, here are Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 846 PRO

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander, Eileen

Summary: As cinematic as Atonement, written with the intimacy of the Neapolitan quartet, Love in the Blitz is an extraordinary glimpse of life in London during World War II and an illuminating portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1 ALE

Hoobler, Dorothy

Summary: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler share a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage, they often showed a side the public...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 920 ARE

Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon

Summary: Chronicles the sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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