Search results for [1930-] at Tsuga Consortium

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With the devil's help : a true story of poverty, mental illness, and murder / by Wooten, Neal,author.;: Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.; Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Wooten, Neal; Poor families;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Under your nose : a book about nature's gifts / by McMurray, Judith.; McMurray, Shandley,1976-; Bateman, Robert,1930-; Tobin Island School of Fine Art (Toronto, Ont.);: Chloe and Zachary are enjoying a week at their grandparents' cottage without their digital devices and they discover that adventures in the great outdoors are much more fun than anything the wired world has to offer.LSC; Subjects: Grandparent and child; Vacation homes;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Tell tale : stories / by Archer, Jeffrey,1940-author.;: Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour.; Subjects: Short stories.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The illustrated world encyclopedia of marine fish & sea creatures : a natural history and identification guide to the animal life of the deep oceans, open seas, reefs, shallow waters, saltwater estuaries, and shorelines of the world / by Beer, Amy-Jane; Hall, Derek,1930-;: Subjects: Marine animals; Marine fishes; Reefs; Marine biology;; © c2007., Lorenz Books,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Atomic spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike,author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--; Subjects: Biographies.; Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988.; Spies; Spies; Spies; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet; Physicists; Nuclear weapons;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / by Cooper, Anderson,author.; Howe, Katherine,1977-author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index.Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by "the Commodore," subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers-the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius's grandson and namesake had built-the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore's great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family's empire, basked in the Commodore's wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.; Subjects: Biographies.; Vanderbilt family.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877; Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019; Businessmen; Millionaires; Railroads; Rich people; Socialites; Steamboats; Upper class families; Upper class; Wealth;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventure of the Norwood builder / by Goodwin, Vincent.; Dunn, Ben.; Doyle, Arthur Conan,Sir,1859-1930.Adventure of the Norwood builder.;: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47).Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a solicitor accused of murder.LSC; Subjects: Mystery comic books, strips, etc.; Graphic novels.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Watson, John H. (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Murder;; © c2010., Magic Wagon,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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