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• Glendale History Room — Glendale Library, Arts & Culture

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  The Glendale History Room is committed to documenting local history by collecting, preserving and making available to the public materials related to Glendale, California. By preserving the collective memory of our community, we pass on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AncestryLibrary.com

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  Use your Glendale Library, Arts & Culture card to start searching billions of records and discover your family's story.

• Finding Your Family Tree

  a Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Genealogy

  Morgan, Sharon Leslie,

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 929.1 MOR

• The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy

  Bettinger, Blaine T.,

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 929.1072 BET 2019

• Genealogy for Beginners

  Pennavaria, Katherine, 1959-

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 929.1 PEN

• The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing

  How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-lost Family

  Weinberg, Tamar,

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 929.1072 WEI

• Faces of America

  How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts

  Gates, Henry Louis. Jr

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 920 GAT

• The Family Tree Toolkit

  a Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy

  Berry, Kenyatta D.,

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 929.1 BER

• Guide to Genealogy

  Resler, Tamara J,

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  Children's Non-Fiction: j 929 RES

• Toypurina

  Japchivit Leader, Medicine Woman, Tongva Rebel

  Stone, Cheyenne M.,

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  Montrose Library Children's Non-Fiction: j 92 Toypurina STO | The story of Toypurina and how she organized an uprising against the Spanish rule to fight for her people and their way of life.

• The Untold Story of Bridget Mason

  a Freedwoman Becomes An Entrepreneur

  Tyner, Artika R.,

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  Central Library Children's Non-Fiction: j 92 Mason,B TYN | "Bridget "Biddy" Mason won her freedom in a California court--and then went on to become the wealthiest Black woman in Los Angeles."

• The Distance Between Us

  Grande, Reyna,

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  Pacific Park Library Children's Non-Fiction: j 92 Grande,R GRA | "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clifton's Clifford Clinton

  a Cafeteria and a Crusader

  Clinton, Edmond, III,

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 92 Clinton,C CLI | "Clifford Clinton’s never-published story, and more stuff about L.A. you just won’t believe. And the pictures. So many. They’re like everything you remember about Clifton’s—delicious. Like green…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ron Finley

  the Gangsta Gardener

  Finley, Ron (Fashion designer),

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  Brand Library Non-Fiction: 709.2 Finley,R FIN | Featuring the contributions of South Central LA guerilla 'gangsta' gardener, Ron Finley, and his contributions to the the PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Corita Kent

  Art and Soul : the Biography

  Dammann, April,

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  Brand Library Non-Fiction: 769.92 Corita DAM | Los Angeles based, Sister Mary Corita became known as a rebellious nun who used her art and teachings as a vehicle for social justice.

• The Revolt of the Cockroach People

  Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 92 Acosta,O ACO | "Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's 'Dr. Gonzo'"

• I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation

  Nourigat, Natalie,

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  "When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California"

• Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

  Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967-

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  Central Library Non-Fiction: 92 Chude-Sokei,L CHU | "The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Angels

  a Book About L.A. Style

  Benjamin, Jasmine,

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  Brand Library Non-Fiction: 779.2 Benjamin,J BEN | "The book features iconic streetwear creators, free spirits from Topanga Canyon, surf and skate kids in Venice Beach, edgy Echo Park hipsters, Los Feliz vintage aficionados, shop girls and guys…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biting the Hand

  Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

  Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, 1976-

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  "With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching, Julia Lee lays bare the complex disorientation and shame that stems from this country's imposed racial hierarchy to argue that Asian Americans must leverage their liminality for lasting social…Read moreRead more of this annotation