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Summary: "An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: Discusses the progress women have made in mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BREChambers, Catherine
Summary: Everyone knows that foot-soldiers do most of the fighting during a battle, but what about their commanding officers? Learn about the warriors who fought from the front, in the thick of things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Tomato 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 CHAPrendergast, Catherine
Summary: "Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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Summary: A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHEReef, Catherine.
Summary: Highlights the life and work of the American author known for such classics as "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.52 REEScorsese, Catherine.
Summary: "One evening at a prestigious film-award ceremony, Catherine Scorsese turned to her son director Martin Scorsese and said, "If anyone ever told me that we'd have a life like this, I would never believe it." Italianamerican tells the story of this extraordinary life through cooking, following three generations as they move from Sicily to New York's Little Italy to Hollywood."--BOOK JACKET. "For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 SCOThimmesh, Catherine.
Summary: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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Summary: Historian Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln. Her story is inextricably tied with her husband's presidency, yet her life is an extraordinary chronicle on its own. From an aristocratic Kentucky family, she was an educated, well-connected Southern daughter, and when she married a Springfield lawyer she became a Northern wife--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LINCOLN, MARY TODD CLIFriend, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Company 2006
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Summary: In a memoir about life in small-town America, the author relates her adventures growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of a pharmacist in Lewiston, New York, a small village near Niagara Falls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Summary: An "illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century ... from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 LACMarshall, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chosen Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, PETER MARMarshall, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.48 MARMerridale, Catherine
Summary: A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Summary: Oxenberg lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her. In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. They both thought this program might help her achieve her dream of starting her own company. But as her daughter became brainwashed by the organization's charismatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OXENBERG, CATHERINE OXEThimmesh, Catherine.
Summary: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: " For fans of Downton Abbey: the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Summary: "The riveting story of a mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when committed to an involuntary psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Historian Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln. Her story is inextricably tied with her husband's presidency, yet her life is an extraordinary chronicle on its own. From an aristocratic Kentucky family, she was an educated, well-connected Southern daughter, and when she married a Springfield lawyer she became a Northern wife--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, MARY TODD CLIGoldhammer, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4043 GOLGourley, Catherine
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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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TALLCHIEFHewitt, Catherine
Summary: A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Summary: The Internet columnist chronicles a year in her life as she anticipated the birth of her second child while coping with the realities and challenges of life with an active toddler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005