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History & Biography April 2021
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Building Open to the Public The Library building is open to the public in a limited capacity in compliance with the public health guidelines from the Restore Illinois plan and the Center for Disease Control. We offer browsing and check out of library materials, computer sessions, copying, printing, and faxing. Our plan may change at any time based on new information or directives from the State. Please stay up-to-date by checking our website regularly or signing up for our e-newsletter. Hours Monday: 9 AM-12 PM; 1-7 PM Tuesday-Saturday: 9 AM-12 PM; 1-5 PM For more information, please click here! |
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Crying in H Mart : a memoir by Michelle ZaunerThe Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. BIOGRAPHY ZAUNER
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The empathy diaries : a memoir by Sherry TurkleThe MIT psychologist and best-selling author of Reclaiming Conversation illuminates humanity’s search for authentic connection in the face of today’s unprecedented challenges, explaining how empathy shaped her own complicated coming-of-age and survival experiences. BIOGRAPHY TURKLE
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Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight by Julia SweigA magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappreciated impact the First Lady’s political instincts had on LBJ’s presidency. BIOGRAPHY JOHNSON
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Beautiful things : a memoir by Robert Hunter BidenWhen he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today--a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life. BIOGRAPHY BIDEN
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The beauty of living twice by Sharon StoneThe Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas and family bonds. BIOGRAPHY STONE
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Until justice be done : America's first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction by Kate MasurA groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But claiming the equal-rights promises of the Declaration and the Constitution, a biracial movement arose to fight these racist state laws. Kate Masur's magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. 973.92 MAS
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The Barbizon : the hotel that set women free by Paulina BrenThe award-winning author of The Greengrocer and His TV presents a history of New York’s famous residential hotel and its celebrity clients, from Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford to Grace Kelly and Liza Minelli. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, The Barbizon weaves together a tale that has, until now, never been told. It is an epic story of women's ambition in the 20th century. The Barbizon Hotel offered its residents a room of their own and air to breathe, unfettered from family obligations and expectations. It gave women a chance to remake themselves however they pleased. No place had existed like it before, or has since. 974.71 BRE
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The age of decadence : a history of Britain: 1880 to 1914 by Simon HefferThe popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire; she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance' marches, newsreels of George V's coronation, and London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet beneath the surface things were very different. In The Age of Decadence, Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. 941.081 HEF
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