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Save Our Souls The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder [electronic resource] : by Pearl, Matthew.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog—along with the ship’s crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore—on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans. Hans appeared to have been there for a while and could quickly educate the Walkers and their crew on the island’s resources. But Hans had a secret . . . and as the Walker family gradually came to learn more, what seemed like a stroke of luck to have the mysterious man’s assistance became something ominous, something darker. Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island.
Subjects: Electronic books.; 19th Century; Maritime History & Piracy;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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In on the joke : the original queens of standup comedy / by Levy, Shawn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Today, women are ascendant in standup comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America, like a punchline. And it took a special sort of woman-indeed, a parade of them-to break and remake the mold. In on the Joke is the story of a group of unforgettable women who knocked down the doors of standup comedy so other women could get a shot. It spans decades, from Moms Mabley's rise in Black vaudeville between the World Wars, to the roadhouse ribaldry of Belle Barth and Rusty Warren in the '50s and '60s, to Elaine May's co-invention of improv comedy, to Joan Rivers' and Phyllis Diller's ferocious ascent to mainstream stardom. These women refused to be defined by type and tradition, facing down indifference, puzzlement, nay-saying, and unvarnished hostility. They were discouraged by agents, managers, audiences, critics, fellow performers-even their families. And yet they persevered against the tired notion that women couldn't be funny, making space not only for themselves but for the women who followed them. Meticulously researched and irresistibly drawn, Shawn Levy's group portrait forms a new pantheon of comedy excellence. In on the Joke shows how women broke into the boys' club, offered new ideas of womanhood, and had some laughs along the way"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Stand-up comedy; Women comedians;
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The story of flight : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum / by Rinard, Judith E.; national air;
Milestones in the development of flight illustrated from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. Includes early airplanes, war planes, space travel, international space station and future flight.
Subjects: National Air and Space Museum.; Flight; Aeronautics; Astronautics;
© c2002., Firefly Books,
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Stories from the bow seat : the wisdom & waggery of canoe-tripping / by Standfield, Donald,1955-; Lundell, Liz,1959-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Canoes and canoeing; Canoes and canoeing;
© 1999., Boston Mills Press,
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Always in season [videorecording] / by Olive, Jacqueline,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Bernier, Don,1970-screenwriter,editor of moving image work.; Glover, Danny,narrator.; Sheehan, Patrick(Cinematographer),director of photography.; Chiang, S. Leo,director of photography.; Essed, Osei,1974-composer.; Giant Interactive (Firm),film distributor.;
Original music by Osei Essed ; cinematography by Patrick Sheehan, S. Leo Chiang ; edited by Don Bernier.Narrated by Danny Glover.When Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina, his mother's search for justice begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 2.0 stereophonic.Winner, 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Lynching; African Americans; Race discrimination;
For private home use only.
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All about baseball / by Doeden, Matt.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index."Explains the game of baseball, including the game's goals, positions, basic rules, and other points of interest"--Provided by publisher.RL: 1-2, IL: PreK-2.LSC
Subjects: Baseball; Baseball;
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the Civil War / by Fisher, David,1946-author.; O'Reilly, Bill.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The lies they told / by Wiseman, Ellen Marie,author.;
In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement -- when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Eugenics; Immigrants; Mothers;
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Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service / by Leonnig, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses. To expose the these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform"--
Subjects: United States. Secret Service; United States. Secret Service; Presidents; Presidents; Presidents; Secret service;
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On air : the triumph and tumult of NPR / by Oney, Steve,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires"--
Subjects: National Public Radio (U.S.); Public radio;
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