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Stadium stories: Washington State Cougars (Stadium stories series)
Par Bud Withers. 2006
George Washington's teeth
Par Brock Cole, Deborah Chandra, Madeleine Comora. 2003
Skid road: an informal portrait of Seattle
Par Murray Morgan. 1982
Sacco & Vanzetti (New England Remembers Ser.)
Par Eli Bortman. 2005
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists. But, did they commit murder in Massachusetts in 1920? When…
they were executed, many believed they had been victims of prejudiceKamehameha III: Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program Ser.)
Par Jean Iwata Cachola. 1995
More than petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina women (More Than Petticoats Ser.)
Par Scotti Cohn. 2000
Presents detailed portraits of fourteen extraordinary women from North Carolina's history who transformed the lives of those around them. Discover…
Emeline Jamison Pigott, a Confederate spy; Mary Martin Sloop, a physician, community leader, and child welfare advocate in the hills of the Blue Ridge; Maggie Axe Wachacha, a healer, teacher, and Cherokee leader; Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who helped liberate the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and ten others who each directly addressed the challenges of their respective times and places. For senior high and adult readersHaunted Wilmington-- and the Cape Fear Coast: And The Cape Fear Coast
Par Brooks Newton Preik. 1995
These fourteen tales of ghostly sightings in Southeastern North Carolina date from the early 1800s to the present...some horrifying, some…
whimsical, some bizarre. All, according to the people who witnessed them, true. For senior high and older readersNisei daughter (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Par Monica Itoi Sone. 1979
The author spent her childhood in pre-World War II Seattle, in a part Japanese, part American world. After the bombing…
of Pearl Harbor, she and her family are sent to an internment camp in Topaz, Idaho. Her family attempts to maintain their values and ethics amidst the barbed wire and armed guards, demonstrating the conflict between the loss of their civil rights and their love of their adopted countryWest Coast journeys, 1865-1879: the travelogue of a remarkable woman
Par Caroline C. Leighton. 1995
A first-person account written by a gentlewoman traveling leisurely through post-Civil War America. In 1865, Caroline Leighton left New York…
for San Francisco and traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest with her husband for the next fourteen years. She describes such sights as the California missions, the Rocky Mountains, and Puget Sound, as well as her observations on other cultures, such as the Native Americans, the Chinese, and the SpanishToo much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man
Par Mary L. Trump. 2020
President Trump's niece, a clinical psychologist, reflects on her family's history to theorize how her uncle became the man he…
is. A first-hand witness to countless family interactions, she details events, relationships, and patterns of behavior among the members of the Trump family. Strong language. 2020I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away
Par Bill Bryson. 1999
After some twenty years in England, Bryson and his family move to New Hampshire where he records his impressions and…
opinions as a returning American. He explains good-humoredly some of the cultural clashes between British and American attitudes to daily occurrences and routinesThe yellow house: A Memoir (National Book Award Winner 2019)
Par Sarah M. Broom. 2019
The author relates a century of her family and their collective relationship with a home in a neglected area of…
New Orleans, even after Hurricane Katrina wiped it off the map. Discusses pride, familial love, and issues of class, race, and internalized shame. Strong language. 2019In the name of Emmett Till: how the children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle showed us tomorrow
Par Robert H. Mayer. 2021
An award-winning author provides an unflinching portrayal of life in the segregated South and the bravery of young people who…
fought that system. From the violent Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people worked to reveal the vulnerability of black bodies and the ugly nature of the world they lived in. For junior and senior high readers. 2021Nine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
Par Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, William L. Trotter. 1990
First published from the 1920s to 1940s in the Saturday Evening Post, these stories embody the environmental concerns of Marjory…
Stoneman Douglas. Set in various parts of South Florida, they reflect conditions, including threats to wildlife, land, and water, that endanger the uniqueness of the region. Douglas's characters range from smugglers to a farm worker, and include veiled autobiographical bits about the indomitable authorThe emerald horizon: the history of nature in Iowa (A Bur oak book)
Par Cornelia Fleischer Mutel. 2008
Botanist Thomas Macbride described Iowa in 1895 as an "emerald prairie" that "gleamed and shone to the horizon." That landscape…
has vanished. Mutel portrays the history of the Iowa landscape and offers hope and sound suggestions for restoring the damaged landscape to the entire Corn Belt. UnratedA good day's work: an Iowa farm in the Great Depression
Par Dwight W. Hoover. 2007
The Klan unmasked
Par Stetson Kennedy. 1990
In this unexpurgated edition, Stetson Kennedy tells the story of his years in the KKK. The book mixes eyewitness reports…
of Klan activities with accounts of Kennedy's clandestine information-gathering activities and of his efforts to report his findings to the media and to any law enforcement agency that would listen. Contains descriptions of violenceIowa curiosities: quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (Curiosities Series)
Par Eric Jones, Dan Coffey, Dr Science. 2005
Palmetto leaves
Par Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1999
In 1867, Stowe settled in a small cottage overlooking the St. Johns River. Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing, and…
river touring expeditions, and the simple stories of events and people became the first unsolicited promotional writing about FloridaTricks we played in Iowa
Par Chad Austin, Judy Combs. 1990