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"In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan, killing everyone on board. In that instant, machine gunner Caleb Daniels lost his best friend, Kip Jacoby, and seven members of his unit. Back in the US, Caleb begins to see them everywhere--dead Kip, with his Alice in Wonderland tattoos, and the rest of them, their burned bodies watching him. But there is something...
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"Christine Schwab has lived a life of Hollywood and New York glamour most people can only dream about. For twenty years she appeared as a fashion and beauty reporter on the nation's leading television shows...But for most of those years, she was hiding a devastating illness that threatened to take over her entire life...In 'Take Me Home from the Oscars', Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering...
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'Beyond the Orange Shirt Story' is a unique collection of truths, as told by Phyllis Webstad's family and others, that will give readers an up-close look at what life was like before, during, and after their Residential School experiences. Phyllis's hope is that all Canadians honour the lives and experiences of Survivors and their families as we go 'Beyond the Orange Shirt Story.'
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"Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years before. His misspelled name is etched on the crown, but the many bones in boxes around him remain unidentified. Who was Yokununna, and how did he die? His story reveals the layered, exploitative white Australian mindset that has long rendered Aboriginal reality all but invisible. When policeman Bill McKinnon's...
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Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
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Scope and content: A small collection containing publications authored by Merrill Moore concerning topics such as bromide intoxication, alcoholism, psychiatry, poisoning, nervous disorders and mental disease. Most of the medical articles in this collection are reprints from professional journals. Also included are a few essays and a poem entitled, "Ego." A few items concern Moore's service in the Medical Corps during World War II, and describe his...
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Scope and content: Collection contains 6,302 slides taken by architect Charles W. Warterfield, Jr. over the course of his adult life, and span the period from about 1957 to 1998. The primary focus of this collection is various styles of architecture in Tennessee, especially in Nashville. These include: pioneer log cabins and houses, vernacular architecture, Greek Revival mansions, Victorian residences and commercial buildings. Warterfield documented...
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Scope and content: Photocopy of scrapbook of newspaper clippings, ca. 1937-1941, concerning public health, school health programs, and related topics in Nashville, Tenn. compiled by Margaret McGee Higgins. Many pages in the scrapbook are arranged in a "layered" fashion. Such pages have been photocopied in their entirety, in their original layout, followed by copies of the individual articles from the same page. Each original layered page is identified...
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Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...
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Scope and content: The Flood 2010 Oral Histories document the historic Nashville flood of May 1-2, 2010 and the aftermath, as told by the people who lived through it. The project includes 174 oral history interviews conducted by library staff and volunteers. Individuals interviewed include first responders, city officials, musicians, artists, and others. Interviews were conducted in two stages (city officials & response teams, then business & community)...