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Grand RapidsFor millennia, people have gathered at the rapids of the Grand River, the place where downtown Grand Rapids now stands. From its earliest recorded history in the 1820s as a tiny frontier trading post, through many booming decades as the Furniture City, to its...
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Ham LakeHam Lake is a six-mile-by-six-mile township as prescribed in the Northwest Territories Act of 1787. One of the area's major lakes looks exactly like a slice of ham, with an island as the ham bone, thus the name. In 1856, a town named Glen...
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StuttgartJoin author Glenn Mosenthin as he recounts the history of Stuttgart, Arkansas and how the Mississippi River helped to create this progressive city.Stuttgart was founded in 1880 by a colony of German Lutherans who moved from Ohio to Arkansas's Grand Prairie. The city grew...
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Legendary Locals of Forest Hills and Rego ParkIn 1906, Cord Meyer Development Company purchased 600 acres in Whitepot and renamed it Forest Hills after its high elevation of rolling hills and proximity to Forest Park.After the Russell Sage Foundation acquired 142 acres and Grosvenor Atterbury and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. partnered,...
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Legendary Locals of DecaturA working-class city of 75,000 people on the banks of the Sangamon River and its largest lake, Decatur has a reputation for outstanding individuals with a strong community spirit and an unashamed sense of patriotism. To borrow a phrase from Adm. Chester Nimitz, in...
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Falling for London: A Cautionary TaleWhen Sean Mallen finally landed his dream job, it fell on him like a ton of bricks. Not unlike the plaster in his crappy, overpriced London flat. The veteran journalist was ecstatic when he unexpectedly got the chance he'd always craved: to be a...
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, SonThe authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the...
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If My Heart Could Talk: A Story of Family, Faith, and MiraclesDodie Osteen, mother of Joel Osteen, gives readers a personal account of her extraordinary life and shares what she has learned about love, faith, and family. As the wife of forty-four years to the late Pastor John Osteen, founder of Lakewood Church, Dodie Osteen...
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BalanceNik Wallenda, King of the High Wire, doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Wallenda family, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance. When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978...
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The Welsh the BiographyThe Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain's four oldest cathedrals, and how after one...
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Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a...
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and FoundA superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of The Killer himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed. The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee...
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The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV EpidemicThe incredible story of Joep Lange's life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic.When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared...
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Lemmy: The Definitive Biography'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK 'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most...
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle FrontierThe second in Richmond Hobson's beloved a trilogy, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, continues the adventure of cattle ranchers Rich and Pan. It is a story of hardship and endurance--of cattle drives, frozen faces, and marauding wolf packs. It is the story of...
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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane EyreDo you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong --I have as much soul as you, --and full as much heart Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers...
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Houdini: The Handcuff King"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of...
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Etched...Upon My Heart: What We Learn and Why We Never ForgetAuthor: Jill KellyPublisher: FaithwordsPublished: 01/22/2013Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.35h x 6.36w x 0.80dISBN: 9781455514274About the AuthorJill Kelly is the wife of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly. In September 1997, three months after their infant son, Hunter, was diagnosed with a fatal disease...
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It's Her Story Shirley Chisholm: A Graphic NovelAuthor: Markia Jenai, Patrice AggsPublisher: Sunbird BooksPublished: 02/15/2022Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.05lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.35dISBN: 9781503762411Audience: Ages 9-12Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2021
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisHistory remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, tend to skip over an equally important stage in her life: her almost two-decade-long career as...
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