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Eminent artist seriesZemeckis, Leslie Harter.
Summary: Featuring interviews by performers and other notables of the industry, presents the history of American burleque theater from its golden age through its decline and its current renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 ZEMHarmer, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.78 HARSummary: "The Kresge Eminent Artist Award celebrates an exceptonal artist in the visual, performing or literary arts for lifelong professional achievements and dedication to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Marie Woo is the 2020 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph celebrates her life and work."
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Kresge Foundation 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.92 CHRCharter, Kay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crofton Creek Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 CHA1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 598 CHA
Charter, David
Summary: "From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr.,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Halter, Roman.
Summary: A Holocaust survivor's account of his six-year journey through the enclaves of Nazi Europe describes how Hitler's armies forced him to become the local SS chief's slave, the deaths of his family and schoolmates, and his escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HALHarte, John
Summary: This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill’s early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars - on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age 22, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War before he is appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty. The book also covers the failure,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON HARStout, Carder
Summary: Psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and finding redemption in the most unlikely of places. Dr. Carder Stouts clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOUT, CARDER STOFreeman, Anna Harber
Summary: "The most renowned Native American Indian potter of her time, Maria Poveka Martinez learned pottery as a child under the guiding hands of her Ko-ōo, her aunt. She grew up to discover a new firing technique that turned her pots black and shiny, and made them-and Maria-famous. This inspiring story of family and creativity illuminates how Maria's belief in sharing her love of clay brought success...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARHafner, Katie.
Summary: A health and technology journalist documents her efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAFNER, KATIE HAFHasted, Nick
Summary: "The first major biography of Jack White explores the wayward life of an outsider growing up in the ruined city of Detroit who was to become an idiosyncratic rock star and founder of a highly influential independent record label"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, JACK HASBarger, Ralph.
Summary: An autobiography in which Ralph "Sonny" Barger discusses his experiences as a longtime member of the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Bessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 951.9 HARHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison to freedom in South Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 365.45 HARHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HARLee, Helie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 LEESemenya, Caster
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAUSER, C.J. HAULisle, Laurie.
Summary: Georgia O'Keeffe's personal mystique is an intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvases. Here is the first full account of her life--from her girlhood to her seclusion in New Mexico & death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA MOSHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HARHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHIN HARDe Hartog, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DE HARTOG, JAN DEHLeckie, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010