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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After taking an assignment as a supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, agent Lucinda Schroeder felt chafed by the restrictions of her desk job. She'd spent her career making cases against wildlife poachers, smugglers, and people who exploited wildlife for huge sums of money. As a supervisor she wasn't allowed to carry a case load. Her responsibility was to oversee the work of five other agents as they investigated wildlife crimes. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
249 pages : images of manuscripts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this remarkable diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system.At the back of these exercise books there is a blurred snapshot and a note, "Chistyakov, Ivan Petrovich, repressed in 1937-38. Killed at the front in Tula Province in 1941." This is all that remains of Ivan...
1804) Season of darkness
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Who was Isabella blackmailing, and why? Led on by fragments of a journal discovered...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side...
1806) Street warrior: the true story of the NYPD's most decorated detective and the era that created him
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend. Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield and was the most decorated detective in the NYPD's 170-year history. Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname "Fort Apache," Friedman...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xix, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the unique personality and reported death of a man who was a pivotal agent in U.S./Hmong history. Friends and family share their memories of Daniels growing up in Montana, cheating death in Laos, and carousing in the bars and brothels of Thailand. First-person accounts from Americans and Hmong, ranchers and refugees, State Department officials and smoke jumpers capture both human and historical stories about the life of this dedicated...
1808) Katherine Johnson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Find out about Katherine Johnson and how her calculations helped with some of the first flights into space. Discover why Katherine Johnson was a role model for black women working in science and which missions she worked on.
1809) Radium girls
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
135 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fire in the heart is a powerful memoir by once a weak, bullied schoolgirl who reinvented herself as a professional wildlands fire fighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver person, Mary climbs to unmitigated heights for a woman in the field, eventually becoming a team commander of a Florida wildfire division. Filled with literal struggles for survival, tough choices and Mary's burning passion for what she does, Fire in the Heart,...
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
122 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and '40s. That is the amazing true story of Bessie Stringfield, the woman known today as The Motorcycle Queen of Miami and the first black woman to be inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Hall of Fame and the Harley Davidson Hall...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Something special happened when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez met. Together, they fought for the rights of countless farmworkers. Side by side, inspiring hope, they changed history.
Algo especial sucedió cuando Dolores Huerta y César Chávez se conocieron. Ellos lucharon juntos por los derechos de los campesinos. Lado a lado cultivaron esperanza, cambiando el curso de la historia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
Sigue la vida y el legado de Pura Belpré, la primera bibliotecaria puertorriqueña del ciudad de Nueva York.
Describes the life and accomplishments of Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who introduced the folk tales of her native island first to the children of New York and afterwards throughout the country.
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