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Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
June 15: Juneteenth
June 29: Pride Month
July 6: Independence Day
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- -- -- —Entertainment Weekly “A well-written, profoundly rational analysis of the trial and, more specifically, the lawyers who conducted it.”—USA Today “Engrossing . . . Toobin’s insight into the motives and mind-set of key players sets this Simpson book apart from the pack.”—People
11) The Titanic Sinks! (Totally True Adventures): How the Unsinkable Ship Met with Shocking Disaster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Here is the exciting true story about the "unsinkable" Titanic! Dramatic accounts, white-knuckle suspense, and fast-paced action of how the world's biggest, safest ship sank on its maiden voyage. Includes black-and-white photos and full-color underwater photos of the wreck.
13) The Big Fella
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York TimesOmaha World HeraldThe Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
-- Those Angry DaysThose Angry Days The stakes could not have been higher. The combatants were larger than life. With the immediacy of a great novel, Those Angry Days Praise for Those Angry Days “Powerfully (re-creates) this tenebrous era . . . Olson captures in spellbinding detail the key figures in the battle between the Roosevelt administration and the isolationist movement.”—The New York Times Book Review “Popular history at its most...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
-- -- Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon’s eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers’ history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times July 20, 1969. It’s a day that has earned a spot in history. It’s the day that America was the first nation to succeed in sending two astronauts—Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong—to the moon.But what led to this unforgettable event? What were the stakes riding on the Apollo 11’s safe landing? In acclaimed author Douglas Brinkley’s first young readers' edition,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
-- New York Times Go behind the scenes of World War II’s top-secret Doolittle Raid with the -- Hornet The Doolittle Raid, as it became known, went down in miliary history as one of the most creative and harrowing missions of World War II. The pilots and crews became American heroes. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare! -- Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale -- Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War TaleMajor Impossible:...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Born to Fly Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age seventeen made...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Some events that transform a nation are frozen in time. Others pass with little public awareness and we only appreciate their momentous nature long after they occurred. Regardless, these events are few and-almost always-far between. But fifty years ago, in 1969, four such events took place within the span of only 100 days. In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first Moon landing, Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s TodayThe Storm of the Century brings this legendary hurricane and its aftermath into fresh focus. No other natural disaster has ever matched the havoc caused by the awesome mix of winds, rain, and flooding that devastated Galveston and shocked a young, optimistic nation on the cusp of modernity. Exploring the impact of the tragedy on a rising country’s confidence—the trauma of the loss...
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