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The magnificent Mario / by Leonetti, Mike,1958-; Chatterton, Gary.;
Max enjoys playing hockey, but unfortunately his team is worst in the league. His father gives him a Mario Lemieux rookie card in the hopes that Max will draw inspiration from the hockey player who was once on the worst team in his league. Includes biographical information about Mario Lemieux.LSC
Subjects: Hockey stories.; Lemieux, Mario, 1965-; Pittsburgh Penguins (Hockey team); Hockey players; Hockey teams;
© c2011., North Winds Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Singing with elephants / by Engle, Margarita.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels in verse.; Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957; Friendship; Cuban Americans; Veterinarians; Elephants; Human-animal relationships; Poetry;
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The life and times of Hannah Crafts : the true story of The Bondwoman's Narrative / by Hecimovich, Gregg A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author's identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author's name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity--as Hannah Crafts--to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman's Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts's friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America's slide into Civil War."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Crafts, Hannah.; African American women novelists; Enslaved women; Fugitive slaves; Autobiographical fiction, American;
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Reagan [sound recording] : the life / by Brands, H. W.; Hoye, Stephen.;
Read by Stephen Hoye."Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty. Reagan sought to restore democracy by bolstering capitalism. In Brands's telling, how Reagan, who voted four times for FDR, engineered a conservative transformation of American politics is both a riveting personal journey and the story of America in the modern era. Brands follows Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him from a troubled childhood in small-town Illinois to become a radio announcer and then the quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. In Hollywood, Reagan edged closer to public service as the president of the Screen Actors' Guild, before a stalled film career led to his unlikely reinvention as the voice of General Electric and a spokesman for corporate America. Reagan follows its subject on his improbable political rise, from the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, to his triumphant election in 1980 as president of the United States. Brands employs archival sources not available to previous biographers and dozens of interviews with surviving members of the administration. The result is an exciting narrative and a fresh understanding of a crucially important president and his era"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Reagan, Ronald.; Audiobooks.; Presidents;
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Victoria / by Goodwin, Daisy,author.;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861;
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Please please tell me now : the Duran Duran story / by Davis, Stephen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the bestselling author of Gold Dust Woman and Hammer of the Gods. In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made them the stars of fledgling MTV, but it was their brilliant musicianship that led to a string of number one hits. By the end of the decade, they had sold 60 million albums; today, they've sold over 100 million albums-and counting. Davis traces their roots to the austere 1970s British malaise that spawned both the Sex Pistols and Duran Duran-two seemingly opposite music extremes. Handsome, British, and young, it was Duran Duran that headlined Live Aid, not Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin. The band moved in the most glamorous circles: Nick Rhodes became close with Andy Warhol, Simon LeBon with Princess Diana, and John Taylor dated quintessential British bad girl Amanda De Cadanet. With timeless hits like "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Girls on Film," "Rio," "Save a Prayer," and the bestselling James Bond theme in the series' history, "A View to Kill," Duran Duran has cemented its legacy in the pop pantheon-and with a new album and a worldwide tour on the way, they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Featuring exclusive interviews with the band and never-before-published photos from personal archives, Please Please Tell Me Now offers a definitive account of one of the last untold sagas in rock and roll history-a treat for diehard fans, new admirers, and music lovers of any age"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Duran Duran (Musical group); Musical groups; Composers; Musicians;
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Followed by the lark : a novel / by Humphreys, Helen,1961-author.;
"Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Loss (Psychology); Nature;
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Machine without horses : a novel / by Humphreys, Helen,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Boyd, Megan, 1915-2001; Artisans; Women artisans; Fly tying; Eccentrics and eccentricities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The maniac / by Labatut, Benjamín,1980-author.;
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957; Mathematicians;
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The other Windsor Girl : a novel of Princess Margaret, royal rebel / by Blalock, Georgie,1974-author.;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002; Nobility;
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