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Apples Varieties Hume, David 1711-1776 Military campaigns Patton, George S. (George Smith) 1885-1945 Patton, George S. (George Smith) 1885-1945 Military leadership Smith, Adam 1723-1790 Smith, Alfred Emanuel 1873-1944 Smith, Edgar 1934-2017 Smith, John 1580-1631 Juvenile literature Smith, PattiShaw, Philip.
Summary: Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), "Horses "belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While "Horses "pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2008
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Summary: "The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership--between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic--that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New Deal In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban machines--representing Catholics and Jews, ironworkers and seamstresses, from the tenements of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 GOLRasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl)
Summary: "David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 192 RASGoldstein, Margaret J.
Summary: "Forward Sophia Smith is one of soccer's rising stars. In 2022, she led the Portland Thorns to the NWSL championship and won the league's MVP award. Learn more about her life and career"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMIJacobs, Diane.
Summary: "For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters. "Never sisters loved each other better than we."--Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776 Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail. But few know of the equally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, ABIGAIL JACSmith, Morgan
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.71 SMIKershaw, Alex
Summary: "From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHIFortson, Sarah Glenn
Summary: "In the 1800s a migrant farmer named Maria Ann Smith worked as an apple orchardist. Her discovery of a new type of apple that never turned red, but was always green, tart, sweet, and perfect for a pie, was due part to a fluke of nature, and part to Maria's insight and determination. The beloved Granny Smith apple that we know today was named in her honor. This is her story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMIKurtz, Henry I.
Summary: A biography of John Smith including his life before he voyaged to Virginia, but with special emphasis on his exploits in North America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watts 1976
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH KURVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, JOSEPH VANBarron, Leo.
Summary: Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, an Army veteran and historian explores one of the most famous yet little understood clashes of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BARClark, Lloyd
Summary: "From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CLAWeinman, Sarah
Summary: In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH WEIAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ABDAxelrod, Alan
Summary: This manual for effective leadership plumbs the life and career of George S. Patton for lessons in leading people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 AXEBiebow, Natascha
Summary: "Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BINBushman, Richard L.
Summary: The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon was true history and not philosophy, and that Peter, James, and John restored the apostleships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 BUSDrury, Bob
Summary: "The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.152 JUNKimberley, Hannah
Summary: Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, swimmer, oarswoman, horsewoman, splendid conversationalist, and well-trained listener. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who never let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame as the third woman recorded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PECK, ANNIE SMITH KIMMarcovitz, Hal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH MARMrazek, Robert J.
Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, FLORENCE MRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FINCH MRAMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2000