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Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Kidd, William d. 1701 Newberry State Hospital (Mich.) Pirates Sherman's March to the Sea Fiction Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891 Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891 Fiction Trotter, William Monroe 1872-1934 United States Race relations History 20th century Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane.Williams, Zach
Summary: "From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this is music star Zach Williams's bold and vulnerable story of faith and redemption. Before two-time GRAMMY Award winner Zach Williams penned heartfelt, faith-filled ballads like 'Chain Breaker,' 'There Was Jesus' (featuring Dolly Parton), and 'Fear Is a Liar,' there was darkness. A rock-and-roll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Books 2024
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Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEILewis, Percy Williams
Summary: Ebenezer Williams was born June 6, 1769. He died October 9, 1844 in Painesville, Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis 1974
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 WILLIAMS LEWSummary: General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHEHill, Frederic B.
Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HILWilliams, Thomas Chatterton
Summary: "A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHATTERTON WILSummary: The brightest stars and biggest hits in Christian radio shine in a brand new two-disc collection that features some of the most inspirational music out there today. Includes tracks from Hillsong United, Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILWashington-Williams, Essie Mae
Summary: The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WASReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REISummary: This live-action docu-drama separates fact from fiction as it brings to rousing life the golden age of pirates! Hear the legends and discover the theatrical lore of such feared men and women as Blackbeard, who mixed gunpowder with his rum; Captain William Kidd, the so-called "gentleman pirate"; Captain Morgan, the Welsh buccaneer; Bartholomew Roberts, from whom guard ships fled; Mary Reed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REATrudeau, Noah Andre
Summary: Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.737 TRUSummary: Get ready to set sail with pirates Sir Francis Drake, Captain Kidd, and Blackbeard, some of the most treacherous and cunning characters who ever set sail, and who are, in reality, more colorful than their legends suggest. Includes 3 episodes, and bonus episode, Treasure Hunters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Nonfic PTubbs, Anna Malaika
Summary: "In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKShaara, Jeff
Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Hoffman, Mary Hramiec.
Summary: "This story is based upon the real life and adventures of Elizabeth Whitney Williams, a woman that resided in the Little Traverse Light, a red brick lighthouse that still sits on Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hramiec Hoffman Pub. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOFDunbar, Willis Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.413 DUNWilliams, Patricia J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.0873 WILWilliams, Elizabeth Whitney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.E. Jewett 1905
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY Williams2 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY WIL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WILGreenidge, Kerri
Summary: "This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TROTTER, WILLIAM MONROE GRESummary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS
Bryant, Jennifer.
Summary: From the Publisher: A Junior Library Guild Selection. Willie loved to write-words gave him freedom and peace. But he also knew that he needed to earn a living, so when he grew up he went off to medical school and became a doctor-one of the busiest men in town! Yet he never stopped writing. In this picture book biography of poet William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant's engaging prose and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2008