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Wil Mara
Series:
Rookie Biographies
(47)
Summary: This book introduces the youngest readers to Harriet Tubman.
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Call #: J B TUBMAN
Location: Junior Biographies
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Howard E Wasdin
(1,635)
Summary: Discusses an elite group that is trained to do very difficult missions.
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Call #: 359 WAS YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Vernona Gomez
(113)
Summary: "A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story. Born to a small-town...
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Peter Roop
(7)
Summary: Discusses the events in Paul Reveres's life up until he made his famous midnight ride.
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Call #: J B REVERE
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dana Meachen Rau
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(967)
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the champion of an independent India and global icon of peace and freedom.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gail Herman
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(1,387)
Summary: An introduction to the life and career of baseball's Jackie Robinson.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Pam Pollack
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(801)
Summary: As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director and entrepreneur whose...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Buckley
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(360)
Summary: As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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True Kelley
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(788)
Summary: "Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President John Adams, to 'remember the ladies' and despite having no formal education herself, she later advocated for...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(2,093)
Summary: A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Janet B Pascal
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(2,524)
Summary: As the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically the first President to be assassinated.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Dennis B Fradin
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(1,526)
Summary: A brief biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who accompanied explorers Lewis and Clark on their expedition in the early 1800s.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Pam Pollack
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(364)
Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British filmmaker known for his distinctive style of directing and his films that featured suspenseful and surprising plots.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Catherine Gourley
(456)
Summary: A biography of the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from a life on a reservation to a career on the stage.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ellen Labrecque
Series:
Who Was-- ?
Summary: Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ellen Labrecque
Series:
Who Was-- ?
Summary: Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Buckley Jr
Series:
Who Was-- ?
Summary: Traces the life and accomplishments of the professional baseball player, from his heroics on the field to his humanitarian efforts and his untimely death.
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Heather Alexander
Series:
Who Was-- ?
Summary: Introduces the former first lady, senator and secretary of state while describing how she became a role model for women as a lawyer, a staunch supporter of important political and social causes, and...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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True Kelley
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(1,346)
Summary: Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was--? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Gully Wells
(454)
Summary: "Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A.J. Ayer,...
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by
Michael Korda
Series:
Eminent Lives
(642)
Summary: A lavishly illustrated edition of Michael Korda's acclaimed biography of the man who ended the Civil War, served two terms as president, and wrote one of the most successful military memoirs in...
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Call #: B GRANT
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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John McCain
(364)
Summary: In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of my fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is...
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Alison Bechdel
(168,165)
Summary: This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form....
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Call #: 741.59 BEC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Pamela Paul
(4,069)
Summary: Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped...
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Call #: 028.9 PAU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert O'Neill
(9,136)
Summary: A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his...
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Call #: 359.984 O'NE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Kim Dinan
(3,061)
Summary: Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their...
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Call #: 910.41 DIN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Benjamin Taylor
(210)
Summary: After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his...
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Call #: B TAYLOR
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yeonmi Park
(70,044)
Summary: Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be...
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Call #: B PARK
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kate Moore
(127,607)
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their...
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Call #: 363.1799 MOO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Ron Corbett
(5)
Summary: "Beyond Promises" is a memoir of sorts by Ron Corbett, who became the youngest speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives and who now is finishing up his eighth year as mayor of Iowa's second...
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Call #: B CORBETT 2017 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sheila Nevins
(3,173)
Summary: Famed documentary producer Sheila Nevins is the one person who always tells it like it is, and who will say, "Learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don't get smarter as you get older,...
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Call #: B NEVINS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Kate Moore
(128,257)
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their...
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by
Tobias Wolff
(28,358)
Summary: This unforgettable, bestselling memoir by a gifted writer introduces the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
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Call #: B WOLFF
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Robert O'Neill
Summary: A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his...
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E-AUDIOBOOK
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by
Jerry Spinelli
(2,138)
Summary: This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
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Call #: J B SPINELLI
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hunter S Thompson
(2,830)
Summary: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the...
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Call #: B THOMPSON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nicole J. Georges , artist
(1,857)
Summary: The author describes her life with her misbehaved dog, a pet that saw her through many changes in life over the course of fifteen years.
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Call #: 636.7 GEO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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