De Hahn, Tracee.
Summary: Describes the origins, spread, and effects of the terrible plague that devastated fourteenth-century Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 DEHCantor, Norman F.
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, Cantor concludes that the Black Death was probably two diseases at once--bubonic plague and anthrax. The author shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as specific individuals, and thus profoundly altered history. Benefits of the outbreak, including explosions in artistic and scientific thought, are also described.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 614.5 CANCantor, Norman F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5732 CANKelly, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5732 KELEdwards, Roberta
Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHABiel, Timothy L.
Summary: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 BIEMessner, Kate
Summary: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 MESHerlihy, David.
Summary: The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.192 HERThompson, Wright
Summary: "A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEShanklin, Mary C.
Summary: The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history and to the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 SHAStandiford, Les
Summary: When Henry Flagler arrived at the island of Palm Beach in April 1893 it was a dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves. Within a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakers. Now Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivity, a fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous protagonists. Standiford brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019