Born To Be Hanged
"Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England.
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copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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The Happiest Man On Earth
"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jaku, eddie, auschwitz (concentration camp), buchenwald (concentration camp), jewish holocaust, world war, 1933-1945, world war, 1939-1945, nazi concentration camp inmates, immigrants, holocaust survivors, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), jews, centenarians, happiness, guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, d?tenus de camp de concentration nazi, survivants de l'holocauste, holocauste, 1939-1945, juifs, centenaires, bonheur, biography & autobiography, history, concentration camp prisoners, holocaust, 1939-1945, germany, allemagne, australia, autobiographies, autobiography, personal narrative, biography, biographies [X], history [X], personal narratives, r?cits personnels
Soldiers Don't Go Mad
"A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1914-1918, post-traumatic stress disorder, war neuroses, gay military personnel, soldiers, sassoon, siegfried, owen, wilfred, craiglockhart war hospital (edinburgh, scotland), biographies [X], history [X]
The Last Honest Man
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: church, frank, legislators, political corruption, intelligence service, politics and government, united states, united states, biographies [X], history [X], 1900-1999
We Set The Night On Fire
"Martha Shelley didn't start out in life wanting to become a gay activist, or an activist of any kind.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shelley, martha, lesbian activists, lesbians, gay liberation movement, gay liberation front (new york, n.y.), daughters of bilitis, united states, autobiographies, biographies [X], history [X]
The Lady From The Black Lagoon
"A true-life detective story and a celebration of a forgotten feminist trailblazer, Mallory O'Meara's The Lady from the Black Lagoon establishes Patrick in her rightful place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little has changed since.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: patrick, milicent, creature from the black lagoon (motion picture), women animators, makeup artists, women in the motion picture industry, film makeup, motion pictures, biographies [X], history [X]