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Amazon River Valley Description and travel Cromwell, Oliver 1599-1658 Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples) 1898-1963 Narnia (Imaginary place) Natural history Amazon River Valley Neurologists England Biography Presidents United States Biography Rain forests Amazon River Valley Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) United StatesAshley, Maurice
Summary: A biography of the Puritan country gentleman who led the rebellion against Charles I in the English Civil War and ruled England as Lord Protector for ten years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROCanby, Henry Seidel
Summary: In 1683, at about the age of 15, Thomas Camby left Thorne in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England for America eventually settling in Abington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Jarvis and had nine children. When Sarah died he married Mary Oliver and had eight more children. Upon Mary's death, Thomas married Jane Preston. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside Press 1945
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.2 CANBY CanbyMatteson, John
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MATSacks, Oliver
Summary: "The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his intimate thoughts on life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family and scientists over the decades A prolific correspondent, Dr. Oliver Sacks--who describes himself variously in these pages as "a philosophical physician," "an astronomer of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf
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Summary: History of Oliver Township, Kalkaska, Michigan including over 85 photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B.J. Dunham 1985
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37746 DunhamCall number: R NEL 977.465 Dunham
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Summary: "Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 SHAGaunt, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Recounts the author's life and career, sharing his experiences as a neurologist in the early 1960s, his obsession with motorcycles and speed, and finding a long-forgotten illness in the wards of a New York chronic hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SACKS, OLIVER W SACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SACKS SACKleinfield, Sonny.
Summary: "He was a teenage volunteer at a nursing home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was a wheelchair-bound resident in her nineties. He was poor, Hispanic, living in a rented room in the barrio, separated from his family. Her life was comfortable, and her family visited as often as possible. But when Margaret Oliver's daughter hired Elvis Checo to look in on her mother a few afternoons a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.262 KLEMahon, Basil
Summary: "This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contributions to electrical science, which proved to be essential to the future of mass communications"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEAVISIDE, OLIVER MAHSacks, Oliver
Summary: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.9 SACSacks, Oliver W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 587.3 SACStone, Oliver
Summary: "An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his privileged New York upbringing, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such landmark films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, OLIVER STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B STONE STORadclyffe, Oliver
Summary: "A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes. From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do British parents and the wife of a successful man from an equally privileged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books 2024
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Summary: "Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARKSHIRE, OLIVER DARGalloway, Stephen
Summary: "In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided, he was the man she was going to marry. There was just one problem: she was already married-and so was he. TRULY, MADLY is the biography of a marriage, a love affair that still captivates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OLIVIER GALRicca, Brad
Summary: " 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, O RICMifflin, Margot
Summary: Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.004 OATMAN, OLIVE ANN MIFSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVGulian, Jared
Summary: "For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and moving to the capital of New Zealand was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove out in the middle of nowhere, it was almost too much. To get there they'd have to drive over a dangerous mountain road - and Jared was terified of heights. And them they'd have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Pony 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.92 GULJacobs, Alan
Summary: Traces the life of the twentieth-century Christian literary master, drawing on themes from the Narnia series to offer insight into Lewis's experiences, from his work as a medieval scholar to his role as a beloved children's book author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 LEWIS, C. S. JACMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardJacobs, Alan
Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005