Kennedy, Ruth S.
Summary: Contains marriage records recording from 1836-1884 in Oakland County, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oakland County Genealogical Society 1989
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Wollstonecraft, Mary
Summary: First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman created a scandal in its day, largely, perhaps, because of the unconventional lifestyle of its creator. Today, it is considered the first great manifesto of women’s rights, arguing passionately for the education of women: "Tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former want...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1996
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Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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Summary: The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 LOVGlendon, Mary Ann
Summary: Recounts the creation of the first international bill of rights, commissioned by the United Nations, and under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt. Includes the texts of 6 early drafts, and the final version: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 GLEUlrich, Laurel Thatcher
Summary: "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.309 ULRBergman, S. Bear
Summary: "S. Bear Bergman's illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column "Asking Bear," in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 BEROliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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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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Summary: The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to Elizabethan England, where they meet William Shakespeare himself--one of the greatest writers of all time! But Mr. Shakespeare is having a hard time with his latest show. Are Jack and Annie ready to make a big entrance? Or will it be curtains for Shakespeare?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC OSBKershaw, Ian.
Summary: This first book of a two-volume account of Hitler's domination of the German people brings readers closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITLER, ADOLF KERSylva, Michele.
Summary: Families who have never struggled to have children can give their sympathies for those of us who can't get pregnant, unless you or someone close to youhas experiencedthe emotional roller coaster of infirtiity, their well-placed intentions are ofthen limited in scope and depth. It is my sincere hope that not only will infertile readers feel like they are not alone, but that their families and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newman Springs Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Parent SylvaOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series--the Magic Tree House! The show must go on! That's what Jack and Annie learn when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to Elizabethan England. There they meet William Shakespeare himself--one of the greatest writers of all time! But Mr. Shakespeare's having a hard time with some of the actors in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2010
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Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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Summary: Followers of the New Temple of God--all well-bred, well-heeled young women--are becoming targets for murder. With Sherlock Holmes at her side, Mary Russell plunges headlong into a dangerous investigation of life behind the sinister temple walls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M KINSummary: Georges Seurat was an enigmatic character who produced, in La Grande Jatte, an equally enigmatic work of art. What is the fishing woman really fishing for? What do the monkey-revealed by X-rays to be a last-minute add-on-and the luminous little girl symbolize? What is going on with the painting's shadows and proportions? This program considers these and other mysteries as it scrutinizes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Stefoff, Rebecca
Summary: "Weaving together the behind-the-scenes history of the Eiffel Tower with an account of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris for which the tower was built, Jonnes creates a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting--and competing. The book opens a window into a piece of the past that, in its passions and politics, feels timelessly modern: art, science, business, entertainment, gossip,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019