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LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY New Materials LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY New Materials April 1, 2017- June 30, 2017 CIRCULATING MATERIALS B105.W6 H97 1996 Hypatia's daughters : fifteen hundred years of women philosophers / edited by Linda Lopez McAlister. CT275.C3458 A3 1981 The first third & other writings / Neal Cassady. D16.3 .B4 2016 A student's guide to history / Jules R. Benjamin, Ithaca College. D765.13.D38 2015 Trail of hope : the Anders Army, an odyssey across three continents / Norman Davies. D766.82 .A82 2002 An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 / Rick Atkinson. D767.25 H6 N3 2016 Barefoot Gen : a cartoon story of Hiroshima / Keiji Nakazawa ; translated by Project Gen. D769.25.G47 2003 Secret soldiers : how a troupe of American artists, designers, and sonic wizards won World War II's battles of deception against the Germans / Philip Gerard. D810.C82 M37 2013 Here on the edge : how a small group of World War II conscientious objectors took art and peace from the margins to the mainstream / Steve McQuiddy. D811 .H473 2016 Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge : the gripping true story that inspired the movie / Booton Herndon. DA225.P546 1990 The Plantagenet encyclopedia : an alphabetical guide to 400 years of English history / general editor: Elizabeth Hallam. DD881 .C495 2009 The candy bombers : the untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America's finest hour / Andrei Cherny. DS22 .R3713 1992 Genghis Khan : his life and legacy / Paul Ratchnevsky ; translated and edited by Thomas Nivison Haining. DS553.1 .L64 2012 Embers of war : the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam / Fredrik Logevall. DS98.6 .E75 2016 Inside Syria : the backstory of their civil war and what the world can expect / Reese Erlich ; foreword by Noam Chomsky. DT1365.N95 H49 2017 Njinga of Angola : Africa's warrior queen / Linda M. Heywood. DT87.5 .F34 2015 Lord and Pharaoh : Carnarvon and the search for Tutankhamun / Brian Fagan. E184.A65 B38 2014 The making of Arab Americans : from Syrian nationalism to U.S. citizenship / Hani J. Bawardi. E185.18 .G57 2000 Exodus! : religion, race, and nation in early nineteenth-century Black America / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. E185.2 .H15 2005 A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn. E185.61 .E525 2017 True south : Henry Hampton and Eyes on the prize, the landmark television series that reframed the civil rights movement / Jon Else. E207.P8 K35 2001 Casimir Pulaski, cavalry commander of the American Revolution / Francis Casimir Kajencki. E302.5 .E45 2000 Founding Brothers : the Revolutionary Generation / by Joseph J. Ellis. E338 .H69 2007 What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / Daniel Walker Howe. E444.T82 L37 2004 Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero / Kate Clifford Larson. E445.V8 T38 2013 The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 / Alan Taylor. E467.1.C99 S76 2015 Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America / T.J. Stiles. E470.4 .H47 2012 The Civil War in the West : victory and defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi / Earl J. Hess. E470.9 .E47 2015 Empire and liberty : the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff, exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken. E77.4 .B76 2005 A broken flute : the Native experience in books for children / edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin. E840.8.L43 A3 2016 March. / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. E99.O3 B4838 2014 Black Elk speaks / John G. Neihardt ; with a new introduction by Philip J. Deloria and annotations by Raymond J. DeMallie. F1030.7 .J47 2000 The Jesuit relations : natives and missionaries in seventeenth-century North America / edited with an introduction by Allan Greer. F149.6.E25 2017 Pennsylvania stories--well told / William Ecenbarger. F157.W9 H583 2016 The Hitchner Biscuit Company of West Pittston Pennsylvania : a small town treasure / by Boyd A. Hitchner. F2169 .J45 2016 Island People : the Caribbean and the World / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. F394.E4 R66 2005 Ringside seat to a revolution : an underground cultural history of El Paso and Juárez, 1893-1923 / David Dorado Romo. G465.F64 2016 Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders / Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton. G535 .D848 2017 Pirate women : the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas / Laura Sook Duncombe. GV706.5.Z57 2005 What's my name, fool? : sports and resistance in the United States / Dave Zirin. HC110.W4 C654 2006 The color of wealth : the story behind the U.S. racial wealth divide / Meizhu Lui [and others]. HD1286 .R69 2013 Our common wealth : the hidden economy that makes everything else work / by Jonathan Rowe ; edited by Peter Barnes ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; afterword by David Bollier. HD5324 .S64 2003 From blackjacks to briefcases : a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States / Robert Michael Smith with a foreword by Scott Molloy. HD5325.M62 B55 2011 The Molly Maguires / by Anthony Bimba. HD6053 .S417 2014 Breaking into the boys' club : the complete guide for women to get ahead in business / Molly D. Shepard and Jane K. Stimmler, with Peter J. Dean. HD66 .S4849 2017 Extreme teams : why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and other cutting-edge companies succeed where most fail / Robert Bruce Shaw. HD8072 .A35 2012 The man who never died : the life, times, and legacy of Joe Hill, American labor icon / William M. Adler. HF5547.5.F69 2015 The definitive personal assistant & secretarial handbook : a best practice guide for all secretaries, PAs, office managers and executive assistants / Sue France. HF5734.5 .C63 2004 Roberta's rules of order : sail through meetings for stellar results without the gavel : a guide for nonprofits and other teams / Alice Collier Cochran. HM141 .K29 1982 Organizing, a guide for grassroots leaders / Si Kahn. HM851 .A437 2017 Irresistible : the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked / Adam Alter. HN65 .G75 2000 Taking history to heart : the power of the past in building social movements / James Green. HN90.R3 E67 1991 Political protest and cultural revolution : nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s / Barbara Epstein. HV6433.I722 I8593 2016 Black flags : the rise of ISIS / Joby Warrick. HV6462.P4 D67 2011 Coatesville and the lynching of Zachariah Walker : death in a Pennsylvania steel town / Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser. HV6517 .G33 2008 Death row women : murder, justice, and the New York press / Mark Gado. HV6675 .L48 2016 Swiped : how to protect yourself in a world full of scammers, phishers, and identity thieves / Adam Levin with Beau Friedlander. HV8139.A465 2012 American policing in 2022 : essays on the future of a profession / edited by Debra R. Cohen McCullough and Deborah L. Spence. HV9466 .K55 2015 Understanding mass incarceration : a people's guide to the key civil rights struggle of our time / James Kilgore. HV9950 .H396 2017 A colony in a nation / Chris Hayes. JC319.M2744 2015 Prisoners of geography : ten maps that explain everything about the world / Tim Marshall. JC328.3 .S45 1973 The politics of nonviolent action / Gene Sharp ; with the editorial assistance of Marina Finkelstein. JC573.2.U6 M363 2014 Change elections to change America : democracy matters : student organizers in action / Jay R. Mandle, Joan D. Mandle ; forward by Adonal Folye. JK1764 .B44 1992 From the ground up : essays on grassroots and workplace democracy / by C. George Benello ; with commentaries by Harry Boyte [and others] ; foreword by Dimitri Roussopoulos ; edited by Len Krimerman [and others]. JK1846 .B47 2016 Give us the ballot : The modern struggle for voting rights in america. JQ1850.A91 W75 2013 Diaries of an unfinished revolution : voices from Tunis to Damascus / edited by Layla Al-Zubaidi, Matthew Cassel, and Nemonie Craven Roderick ; translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins ; with an introduction by Samar Yazbek. KF1263.M43 L35 2016 The face that launched a thousand lawsuits : the American women who forged a right to privacy / Jessica Lake. KF3455 .G84 2014 The manager's legal handbook / Amy DelPo, Lisa Guerin. KF373.D43 A3 2001 A lawyer's journey : the Morris Dees story / Morris Dees with Steve Fiffer. KF4541.K53 2016 The framers' coup : the making of the United States Constitution / Michael J. Klarman. LB1134 .V47 2017 Links between spatial and mathematical skills across the preschool years / Brian N. Verdine, University of Delaware, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, University of Delaware, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University, and Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University ; with commentary by Drew H. Bailey. LB2369.H33 2015 Research and Documentation in the Digital Age : 2016 MLA update / Diana Hacker, Barbara Fister. ML410.M9 S377 2013 Experiencing Mozart : a listener's companion / David Schroeder. ML420.D98 A3 2005 Chronicles : volume one / Bob Dylan. N6447.5 .G66 2013 What are you looking at? : the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150 years of modern art / Will Gompertz. N7113.D3 F76 2016 Dalí illustrator / Eduard Fornés. NA209.C73 2017 Fallen glory : the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings / James Crawford. NA2542.4.G64 2017 Welcome to your world : how the built environment shapes our lives / Sarah Williams Goldhagen. NC1499.S337 A2 2015 The Arab of the future : a graphic memoir : a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) / Riad Sattouf ; translated by Sam Taylor. NC1499.S337 A23 2016 The Arab of the future. 2 : a graphic memoir : a childhood in the Middle East (1984-1985) / Riad Sattouf ; translated by Sam Taylor. ND553.M7 K53 2016 Mad enchantment : Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies / Ross King. P85.C47 C63 1996 Chomsky : for beginners / David Cogswell ; illustrated by Paul Gordon.
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