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Amber's atoms : the first 10 elements of the periodic table / by Robinson, Elizabeth(Elizabeth M.),author.; McAliley, Susan,illustrator.(CARDINAL)638994;
Amber the puppy helps introduce the first ten elements of the periodic table to young readers.
Subjects: Chemical elements;
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Henry O. Flipper : West Point's first black graduate : an annotated autobiography / by Flipper, Henry Ossian,1856-1940,author.(CARDINAL)165736; McGovern, Rory,editor.; McGowan, Tony,1964-editor.; Gibby, Bryan R.,editor.; Oberhaus, Elizabeth S.,editor.; Robinson, Anna C.,editor.; Sorrentino, Gabriella M.,editor.; Brooks, Vincent K.,writer of foreword.; West Point Press,issuing body;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- A note to our readers -- Editor's introduction -- Retrospect -- Communication, etc. -- Reporting -- Cant terms, etc. -- Plebe camp -- Studies, etc. -- Yearling camp -- First-class camp -- Our future heroes -- Treatment -- Resume -- Pleasures and privileges -- Furlough -- Incident, humor, etc. -- Graduatation- in the Army -- Smith at West Point -- Aferword -- Appendix: Black cadet's extracurricular reading, 1870-1877 -- Index.This annotated edition of Henry Flipper's autobiography guides modern readers and researchers to better understand Flipper's original work. The editors' notes explain the significance of people, places, and events that Flipper identifies in shorthand; provide additional context and subtext to help readers better understand Flipper's experiences; identify areas in which Flipper presented an ambiguous or incomplete narrative; and explore the literary qualities of the original memoir as an early work of African American autobiography. Readers of this work are given insight into the history of the African American struggle in the Reconstruction and to Black presence at West Point, as well as the publication and material history of Flipper's original book and Flipper's broader place in the literary tradition--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Autobiographies.; Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940.; United States Military Academy; African American military cadets;
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American mystery and detective writers / by Anderson, George Parker,1957-(CARDINAL)704184;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Michael Avallone (1924-1999) / Martin Kich -- Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1993) / Marvin S. Lachman -- Gil Brewer (1922-1983) / Tim Dayton -- Paul Cain (Peter Ruric, George Sims) (1902-1966) / Peter Gunn -- Robert Campbell (1927-2000) / Martin Kich -- John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) / Douglas G. Greene -- Mary Higgins Clark (1929- ) / Wendi Arant -- Patricia Cornwell (1956- ) / Charles L. Etheridge, Jr. -- Amanda Cross (Carolyn G. Heilbrun) (1926-2003) / Charles L. Etheridge, Jr. -- Lester Dent (1904-1959) / Katherine M. Restaino -- Dominick Dunne (1925- ) / Katherine M. Restaino -- Stanley Ellin (1916-1986) / Katherine M. Restaino -- Elizabeth George (1949- ) / Karl L. Stenger -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) / Karl L. Stenger -- Tony Hillerman (1925- ) / Marvin S. Lachman -- Edward D. Hoch (1930- ) / Marvin S. Lachman -- Evan Hunter (Ed McBain) (1926- ) / Martin Kich -- Emma Lathen (Mary Jane Latsis) (1927-1997) and (Martha Henissart) (1929-) / Marcia B. Dinneen -- Frances and Richard Lockridge (1896-1963; 1898-1982) / Marvin S. Lachman -- Dennis Lynds (Michael Collins) (1924- ) / Ward B. Lewis -- John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) / Matt Theado and Tim Cummings -- F. Van Wyck Mason (Geoffrey Coffin, Frank W. Mason, Ward Weaver) (1901-1978) / Peter Kenney -- -- Helen McCloy (1904-1992) / Anita G. Gorman -- Sharyn McCrumb (1948- ) / Marcia B. Dinneen -- Ralph McInerny (1926- ) / Anita G. Gorman -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) / John L. Cobbs -- Michael Nava (1954- ) / Karl L. Stenger -- Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Peter Dempsey -- Robert B. Parker (1932- ) / Donna Waller Harper -- George P. Pelecanos (1957-) / Peter Gunn -- Rex Stout (1886-1975) / Bobbie Robinson -- S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) (1887-1939) / Marvin S. Lachman -- Judith Van Gieson (1941- ) / Carol McGinnis Kay.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Biographies.; Bibliographies.; Detective and mystery stories, American; American fiction; Authors, American; Detective and mystery stories, American; American fiction;
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50 American heroes every kid should meet / by Denenberg, Dennis,1947-author.(CARDINAL)381085; Roscoe, Lorraine,1955-author.(CARDINAL)381086;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A Tribute -- Introduction -- Jane Addams -- Susan B. Anthony -- Clara Barton -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter -- George Washington Carver -- Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta -- Roberto Clemente -- Walt Disney -- Dorothea Dix -- Frederick Douglass -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Albert Einstein -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Benjamin Franklin -- Bill and Melinda Gates -- John Glenn -- Milton Hershey -- Team Hoyt -- Langston Hughes -- Thomas Jefferson -- Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan -- The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea -- Abraham Lincoln -- Yo-Yo Ma -- George C. Marshall -- John Muir -- Barack Obama -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Jesse Owens -- Rosa Parks -- I.M. Pei -- Ronald Wilson Reagan -- Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Jonas Salk -- Alexandra (Alex) Scott -- Tecumseh -- Harry S. Truman -- Harriet Tubman -- George Washington -- Elie Wiesel -- Oprah Winfrey -- Wilbur and Orville Wright -- Louis Zamperini -- Hero hunt -- Quotation sources -- Index -- Answers for hero hunt -- Photo acknowledgments -- About the authorsProfiles fifty Americans and the accomplishments they made in their lifetime that made them heroes, enhanced with historical documents, photos, web site addresses, and more. --Publisher920LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Heroes;
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60 American heroes every kid should meet / by Denenberg, Dennis,1947-author.(CARDINAL)381085; Roscoe, Lorraine,1955-author.(CARDINAL)381086;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Jane Addams -- Susan B. Anthony -- Clara Barton -- Mary Mcleod Bethune -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter -- George Washington -- Carver -- Cesar Chavez -- And Dolores Huerta -- Roberto Clemente -- Walt Disney -- Dorothea Dix -- Frederick Douglass -- Marian Wright Edelmen -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Albert Einstein -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Anthony Fauci -- Benjamin Franklin -- Bill And Melinda Gates -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- John Glenn -- Amanda Gorman -- Kamala Harris -- John Herrington -- Milton Hershey -- Team Hoyt -- Langston Hughes -- Thomas Jefferson -- Katherine Johnson -- Helen Keller -- And Anne Sullivan -- The Reverend Dr. Martin -- Luther King Jr. -- Meriwether Lewis, -- William Clark -- And Sacagawea -- Abraham Lincoln -- Yo-yo Ma -- George C. Marshall -- John Muir -- Barack Obama -- Sandra Day O'connor -- Jesse Owens -- Rosa Parks -- Dolly Parton -- Walter Payton -- I. M. Pei -- Ronald Wilson Reagan -- Jackie Robinson -- And Branch Rickey -- Fred Rogers -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Jonas Salk -- Alexandra (Alex) Scott -- Tecumseh -- Harry S Truman -- Harriet Tubman -- Madam C.J. Walker -- George Washington -- Elie Wiesel -- Oprah Winfrey -- Wilbur And -- Orville Wright -- Louis Zamperini."Encounter sixty remarkable Americans and their inspiring stories in browse-able, photo-illustrated pages. Revised in 2023 by the original authors, this unique book includes up-to-date websites, book lists, and biographical information"--Grades 7-9Ages 11-18
Subjects: Heroes;
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Buck Springs, Nathaniel Macon ( A History) /
aI. Chain of title Documents - - Will of Gideon Macon/. A. Just and true Inventory of the estate of Gideon Macon - - Will of Nathaniel Macon - - Weldon N. Edwards Offers Buck Spring to William Eaton, Sr. - - Francis Thornton's acceptance of Buck Spring - - Bonds for the Nathaniel Macon Estate - - WM. Hendrick & Others Trustees to Robert L. Jones - - Hamilton J. Stone Ex" & Victoria L. Jones to George W. Robinson - - Will of George W. Robinson - - John E. Boyd and James C. Robinson to Dr. Simon T. Green - - S.T. Green and wife to H.A. Boyd, Trustee - - H.A. Boyd, Trustee, to J. Herbert Taylor - - Herbert Taylor to H.T. Howard - - Will of Hilliard T. Howard - - Partition of estate of H.T. Howard to Julius Howard, ET Als. Heirs at law - - Peter and Elizabeth Alston to Thomas K. Howard - - Administration of T.K. Howard Estate - - J.E. Howard and wife to Dorothy Howard, Administrative - - Petition of Thomas K. Howard Heirs, 1926 - - Randall - Life of Jefferson, Vol. 2. - - Nathaniel Macon's Home in Warren, by Fred A. Olds. - - From Ben Dixon MacNeill, "Bronze Marker unveiled at Nathaniel Macon's grave." - -Ancient Warren County Homes whisper stories of slave-owning year by Mrs. Charlotte Story Perkinson. - - W.P.A. Project (Compiled Data) - - III. Tax and Census records, 1781-1828, List of taxables (1781-1801), record of taxable property from 1824 to 1828 Inclusive (for Nathaniel Macon) - - Macon-Eaton Family bible - - Betsy Martin Bible, 1325. - - Micajah T. Hawkins to Nathaniel Macon - - VI. Buck Springs Account, 1836-1837 - - VII. Inventory of Macon Estate - - VIII. Macon Funeral - - IX. Settlements with N.M. Marin and Donnan - - X. Inventory and settlement of Robert L. Jones Estate. - - XI. Inventory and settlement of George W. Robinson Estate - XII Buck Springs restoration efforts.
Subjects: Family histories.; Macon, Nathaniel.;
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Pushcart Prize XLVII : best of the small presses / by Henderson, Bill,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)723459;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Ambivalence / Victoria Lancelotta -- Talking to the hedgerows about money / Jeb Loy Nichols -- Open water / Ada Limón -- The glacier / Idra Novey -- Standing in the forest of being alive / Katie Farris -- The children are fragile / Jen Silverman -- Dear friends / Mary Ruefle -- Mantis / Gina Chung -- The Cloud Lake unicorn / Karen Russell -- 1940 / D. Nurkse -- Fire and ice / Debra Gwartney -- The observable world / Marcel Fuentes -- Both sissies / Le Van D. Hawkins -- Loquats / Sally Wen Mao -- The toll / Daniel Mason -- Bad dog / Molly Giles -- Sweet potato / Janice N. Harrington -- The thermopolium / Dorianne Laux -- Against mastery / Brionne Janae -- How do you roll / Kim Chinquee -- The kiss / Kate Osana Simonian -- Father Weaver / Jamaica Baldwin -- Utter, Earth / Isaac Yuen -- Colonial conditions / Brandon Taylor -- Love & the memory of it / Jay Hopler -- A brief history of the war / Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer -- Back / Banzelman Guret -- Tikkun Olam Ted / Nicole Graev Lipson -- During the pandemic I listen to the July 26th 1965, Juan Les Pins recording of "A Love Supreme" / Ellen Bass -- Unknown / Bennett Sims -- Bock rottom / Sam Herschel Wein -- Fire / Thaisa Frank -- Million million / Michelle Boisseau -- If your dreams don't scare you / Joni Tevis -- Screensaver / Robert Cording -- Half spent / Alice McDermott -- White spaces / Lisa Low -- The uncertainty principle / Danielle Cadena Deulen -- Dear Coroner, how could you know / Julia Paul -- Slut days / Sanam Mahloudji -- Pearl Ghazal / Leila Chatti -- Fireflies / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- I see a silence / Ilya Kaminsky -- Remembrance poppy / Katrina Vandenberg -- To cigarettes / Nancy Connors -- Skinfolk / Elaine Hsieh Chou -- A child of North America / Roger Reeves -- Autobiography via forgetting / Marianne Chan -- When the body says no but you can't stop swallowing / Steven Espada Dawson -- Too attached / Whitney Lee -- If you would let me / Maggie Dietz -- Wishbone / Joseph Sigurdson -- The desperate place / Gail Godwin -- The Union Waltz / Doug Crandell -- The Land of Uz / Aleyna Rentz -- Confession / Elizabeth Robinson -- Shakespeare doesn't care / Rita Dove -- Satyr's flute / Shangyan Fang -- There I almost am: on envy and twinship / Jean Garnett -- Poets / Elizabeth Tallent -- Mother fuckers talking shit about American sonnets / Sam Cha -- Maly, Maly, Maly / Anthony Veasna So -- An essay on war / Jennifer Chang -- To sharks / Stephen Fishbach -- Postcards to M. / Allison Benis White -- Things I didn't do with this body & things I did / Amanda Gunn -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976."In last year's Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, "the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe." As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.). The Pushcart Prize won the NBCC Sandroff Lifetime Achievement award, The Poets & Writers/ Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers citation and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the seminal publications in American publishing history." --
Subjects: Short stories.; Essays.; Autobiographies.; American literature; American literature; Small presses; Short stories, American; American poetry; American essays; Autobiography;
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Allen-Lewis and Davison-Ridgeway families : migrations to Missouri / by Pippenger, Wesley E.,1956-author.(CARDINAL)143270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index.Allen family. Samuel Allen ; Will and last testament of Samuel Allin ; Complexity of researching early Tennessee lands ; Samuel Gillion Allen ; Mary Ann (Hicks) Allen's memorandum book -- Hicks family. Samuel Robinson Hicks ; John W. Hicks ; Hicks Bible insert ; Hicks family record ; Hicks Bible -- Allen family (continued). Robert Edward Allen ; Samuel Wayne Allen ; William Elmer Allen ; Samuel Francis "Frank" Allen ; Homer Johnson Allen -- Lewis family. Lewis family lineage ; John Lewis ; David Lewis ; Isaiah Lewis, Sr. ; Paul Lewis ; Philip Lewis ; Isaiah Lewis, Jr. ; William Martin Lewis ; James Lewis, Declaration ; Joab Lewis -- Adair family. William Adair ; Watson M. Adair -- Sweazea family. Richard G. Sweazea -- Bigger family. Bickers family ; William Bigger ; John Bigger ; William [C.] Bigger, Jr. -- Davison family. Robert Davison ; James Hamilton Davison ; James Davison ; John Davison ; Philip Davison ; Henry W. Davison ; Elizabeth Davison Fitzwater ; James Davison ; Robert Davison ; George W. Davison ; Davison Bible record ; Ida Elizabeth Davison King ; Henry Augustus Davison ; Lee Albert Davison ; Thomas Coie Davison ; Henry Orville Davison ; Charles Condus Davison ; Hallie May Davison Parker ; Alvin Earl Davison ; William Roy Davison ; Effie Fern Davison Thornhill ; Robert Jewell Davison ; Chester Leland Davison ; "Twenty questions" ; William Davison ; Samuel Davison ; John Davison ; John Henry Davison ; Robert Erastus Davison ; William Davison -- Ridgeway family. Ridgeway family lineage ; Philip Ridgeway ; Ausburn Ridgeway ; Samuel Ridgeway ; John Page Ridgeway ; Elizabeth Ridgeway Bennett ; Jennettie A. Ridgeway Tiller -- Davison family (continued). Janice Louise Davison Giese -- Giese family. Zora Eileene Davison Pippenger ; Rachel Pippenger Lucas."This detailed family history is the result of the author's search for information about the ancestors of his mother, Zora 'Eileene' Davison Pippenger, through her mother, Velma Pearl Allen (1902-1990), and her father, Chester Leland Davison (1901-1991)... The author has provided a wealth of genealogical information as well as varying amounts of biographical information. Chapters are devoted to the following families: Allen, Hicks, Lewis, Adair, Sweazea, Bigger, Davison, and Ridgeway. Numerous photographs, facsimile reprints of original documents, a bibliography and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work"--Back cover.
Subjects: Family histories.; Allen family.; Allan, Thomas, active 19th century; Lewis family.; Lewis, Joab, 1833-1886; Davison family.; Davison, James, approximately 1773-approximately 1852; Ridgway family.; Ridgeway, Ausburn, approximately 1770-1841; Hicks family.; Hicks, Samuel Robinson, 1820-1867; Adair family.; Adair, Watson M., approximately 1824-approximately 1858;
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Booknotes : stories from American history / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-523) and index.1060L
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Interviews.; Authors, American;
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Booknotes : stories from American history / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Interviews.; Authors, American;
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