Yeager, Chuck
Summary: Wit wisdom from New York Times #1 best-selling author (sold over 1.2 million books), the original badass Right Stuff, fighter ace, test pilot, greatest pilot, a pilot's pilot, a man's man, a woman's man: Chuck Yeager, his favorite wingman, Victoria. Find out why Maverick, the new Top Gun movie, pays homage to Chuck Yeager! Chuck Yeager risked his life to break the sound barrier opening up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit YeagerLeber, Marlene F. Weaber.
Summary: Johan Henrich Weber was born in 1735 in Hochstadt, Germany. He emigrated in 1749. He married Anna Elisabetha Filbert, daughter of Johann Samuel Filbert (1710-1786) and Maria Suzanna, in 1763. They had seven children. He died in 1815 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Masthof Press 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 WEBER LeberYeager, Chuck
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YEAGER, CHUCK YEAYeager, Chuck
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1986
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Summary: Enhanced by more than one hundred historical photographs, chronicles the development of the Bell X-1 aircraft, the craft in which a young test pilot named Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, detailing the development of the technology involved and exploring the impact of the historical achievement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.746 PISYeager, Chuck
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 YEAMacCarry, Noel
Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017
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Summary: This book tells the stories of adventurers who have defied gravity and soared above the Earth, from pioneer aviators and astronauts to the free-falling fearlessness of Felix Baumgartner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GREKluger, Richard
Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUKor, Eva Mozes
Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 KORMeaker, Marijane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA MEAHarvey, Miles
Summary: In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. He persuaded hundreds to follow him to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, and declared himself a divine king. He controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, practiced plural marriages, and established a pirate colony where he perpetrated thefts, corruption and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2020