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Gladwell, Malcolm Gornick, Vivian. Jacob, Merle. Kidder, Tracy. Simons, Lisa M. B.Summary: America’s magnificent storyteller Mark Twain has crafted an intriguing and classic tale of mistaken identity, deceit, and murder. At the center of it all is a slave woman who cradle-switches her master’s son with her own light-skinned baby…a child, though raised as white, who never fulfills her hopes and dreams for him as he becomes an arrogant and cruel man. Acclaimed actor Ken Howard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1983
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Summary: For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESGornick, Vivian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9492 GORSummary: The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, letters, scholarly essays, news articles, excerpts from plays, mission statements, lyrics, and herstories looking across time, generational, and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. Together they open a window that reveals a range of Latina perspectives on important contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8092 LATSimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Introduces readers to the basic features of nonfiction books, such as headers and indexes. Readers will learn how to use these features to gather information and write reports. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, labeled diagrams, a quiz and answer key, a phonetic glossary, an index, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J005.118 CWSummary: A latest anthology for tween boys collects ten true stories, biographies, essays, and other engaging short entries by leading nonfiction writers and journalists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GUYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCIFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Story Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a time of reckoning, this year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein's depredations (New Yorker), along with Rebecca Traister's charged commentary for New York and Laurie Penny's incisive Longreads columns, speak to the urgency of the #MeToo moment. Ginger Thompson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.008 BESSummary: A selection of Frost’s poems chosen to suit a perfect New England autumn day. Filmed in the beautiful farm country of Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Julie Harris takes viewers into Emily Dickinson’s everyday world in a small New England town to compare and contrast facts about the poet with her extraordinary, original insights. Dickinson’s reclusive life in her father’s mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, meant that she wrote almost all of her surviving work in this house. From cellar to cupola, we invoke her “certain slant of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1977
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Gladwell, Malcolm
Summary: Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 814 GLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 GLASummary: In this introduction to George Orwell's life and work from the Famous Authors series, viewers follow Orwell through his privileged education, during which he nurtured his writing talents from an early age. He joined the Burmese military police but grew disillusioned with his role as an oppressor, returned to depression-era England, and committed himself to writing, notwithstanding stints in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Hadleyburg has a reputation for unshakable honesty. The smug townspeople are proud of this virtue and keep themselves honest by simply avoiding temptation. That is until “the man that corrupted Hadleyburg” arrives in town. Robert Preston stars as the stranger who plots a revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to the citizens who once showed him charity many years before....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: This program from the Famous Authors series begins by contextualizing W.B. Yeats' early life in 19th century Ireland and introducing the Yeats' artistic family and the Irish legends that were so influential in his life and work. Yeats eventually became a ring leader of a group of artists in London called the Tragic Generation. Yeats became known as a political and literary voice of Ireland and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kidder, Tracy.
Summary: The authors share stories from their literary friendship and respective careers, offering insight into writing principles and mechanics that they have identified as elementary to quality prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 KIDSummary: This program from the Famous Authors series traces James Joyce's life from his childhood and university days in Ireland, during which he was strongly religious, through his time in Paris where he denounced Catholicism, studied medicine, and began writing poetry, articles, and book reviews. The film introduces viewers to the city of Dublin, the background of Ulysses, Dubliners, and his other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Edgar Allan Poe was truest to his heart a poet. He has blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving imagery ever created. His phrasing and lyricism have forever changed the landscape of poetic verse. Includes “The Conqueror Worm,” “To My Mother,” “Israfel,” “Annabel Lee,” “The City in the Sea,” “Eldorado,” “To Helen,” “The Haunted Palace,” “Evening Star,” and “The Raven.”
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: This overview of Henry James' life and literature from the Famous Authors series begins with James' comfortable boyhood in New York, during which his father moved James and his brother around and back and forth from Europe frequently for the sake of education. He eventually went to Harvard to study law and began writing, but felt uncomfortable with American culture and left for England, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006