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The maverick's museum : Albert Barnes and his American dream

Gopnik, Blake, author.

Publication Date

2025

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Book

Call Number

709 GOP

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SD_ILS:796430

John Lewis : a life

Greenberg, David, 1968- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

923.273 LEW

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SD_ILS:729929

Carson McCullers : a life

Dearborn, Mary V., author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

928.152 MCC

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SD_ILS:707714

Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II

Graham, Elyse, 1985- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.548673 GRA

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SD_ILS:726737

This part is silent : a life between cultures

Kim, SJ, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

973.04957 KIM

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SD_ILS:723667

That librarian [large print] : the fight against book banning in America

Jones, Amanda (Librarian), author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

025.213 JON

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SD_ILS:788358

Livin' just to find emotion : Journey and the story of American rock

Golland, David Hamilton, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

782.42166 GOL

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SD_ILS:707177

Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum

Hylton, Antonia, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

362.21 HYL

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SD_ILS:707769

Viewfinder : a memoir of seeing and being seen

Chu, Jon M. (Jon Murray), 1979- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

791.430233 CHU

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SD_ILS:707812

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Ghost dogs : on killers and kin

Dubus, Andre, III, 1959- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.6 DUB

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SD_ILS:707740

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The six [large print] : the untold story of America's first women astronauts

Grush, Loren, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

629.40973 GRU

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SD_ILS:704452

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American breakdown : our ailing nation, my body's revolt, and the nineteenth-century woman who brought me back to life

Lunden, Jennifer (Jennifer L.), 1967- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

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Call Number

616.0478 LUN

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SD_ILS:684118

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