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The Demmer Memorial Library connects directly (physically and archivally) to the Three Lakes Historical Museum and Visitor Center.
The Demmer has dedicated research computers, a ScanPro 3000 microfilm scanner, offer access to books, microfilm, local archive materials, and other resources highlighting our rich local history.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
[viii], 322 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2017 season saw the most homers ever, with 2016 and 2018 close behind, a shift that has transformed the way the game is played. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxix, 274 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her own time, she was recognized as a woman of unparalleled power. Beautiful and intelligent, she was portrayed as alternately a ruthless murderer and helpless victim, the most loving mother and the most powerful woman of the Roman empire, using sex, motherhood, manipulation, and violence to get her way, and single-minded in her pursuit of power for herself and her son, Nero. This book follows Agrippina as a daughter, born in Cologne, to the expected...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxi, 441 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an understatement: known for his profound Irish roots and staunch...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank account, never paid tax, never received social security. He simply did not exist. He had been hard-wired into a life of shadows and secrecy by his own...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 240 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift, is among them. What shapes does this kind...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 682 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : Illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, deliciously dramatic, and ultimately heartbreaking story of King George III's radical pursuit of happiness in his private life with Queen Charlotte and their 15 children. In the U.S., Britain's George III, the protagonist of A Royal Experiment, is known as the king from whom Americans won their independence and as "the mad king," but in Janice Hadlow's groundbreaking and entertaining new biography, he is another character altogether--compelling...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xviii, 311 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and death; his career had destroyed his marriage. Seeking...
1908) Antoinette's sister
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 386 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will soon take her place as queen. Before Josepha can journey...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 258 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : some color illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nothing consumed Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than his desire to produce a legitimate male heir and perpetuate the Tudor dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest, and growing religious intolerance and discord. Henry fathered four children...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost diplomatic urgency, a last-ditch attempt to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 509 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as...
1912) Crown & sceptre: a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xx, 555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne: "shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue's gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs," as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these 955 years has the...
Author
Series
Stephen Fry's Greek myths volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
351 pages : color illustrations, color map, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder. Classical artwork inspired by the myths and learned notes from the author offer...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
356 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart. King James I is looking to expand England's influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the Palatinate to London and offers him his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth's hand in marriage. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle, Frederic's ancestral home, where she is favored with whatever she desires,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble--and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I. Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized-- and largely mythical-- notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
198 pages : color illustrations, genealogical tables, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible presents the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, and other primary figures in a continuous narrative that upholds the complexities of the original text.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men; all of them innocent....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 513 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-- the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip-- elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible-- is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'. Who was he? What...
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