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Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BURSecrest, Meryle
Summary: "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHIAPARELLI, ELSA SECKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KERKulish, Nicholas.
Summary: "The compelling story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, whose decades-long flight from justice turned a mid-level SS officer and concentration camp doctor into the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. According to their testimony, Heim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 KULBishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: "One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern-- head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang-- at the hand of a British policeman during WW II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BISBailey, Catherine
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England's wealthiest families. Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England's aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 BAIGarelick, Rhonda K.
Summary: "Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today--and for nearly the last hundred years--we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel's rolein the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHANEL, COCO GARBorrowman, Jerry
Summary: "The struggle to combat the Nazis during World War II encompassed front lines far beyond conventional battlefields. In a panoramic and compelling account, author Jerry Borrowman shares seven largely untold stories of people who undertook extraordinary efforts to defeat the Third Reich at enormous personal risk.Some were soldiers like the Ghost Army, an eclectic group of former artists, actors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BORJackson, Joe
Summary: "A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 JACShesol, Jeff
Summary: Drawing on new archival sources, Jeff Shesol re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021