Mills, Stephen Tukel

Summary: "At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLS, STEPHEN TUKEL MIL

Sills, Stephen (Stephen Maxey)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 SIL

Summary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWO

Summary: "As iconic a group as has ever existed, The Velvet Underground were so far ahead of their time, musically, visually and culturally, it's as if they were dropped, ready formed, into New York's avant-garde art scene, from a parallel universe. And in addition to their unique imagery, so perfectly designed by maverick artist and impresario Andy Warhol, their experiments with form and sound that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VEL

Summary: In his unique fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark is expanded 35 years later by its unconventional follow-up, Take 2 1/2. The sequel sees the actors reunited in a more personal,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SYM

Summary: A compilation of clips from over 50 Hollywood films by blacklisted screenwriters & directors, with expert commentary and other period footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RED

Summary: Follows the lives and careers of a group of artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEA

Summary: Join Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach as they travel to unique and forbidding ice caves in Greenland, underwater caves in the Yucatan, terrestrial caves in the Grand Canyon and other spectacular locations. For those compelled to push their limits in the world's most hostile environments, the risk of fatal danger and thrill of new discovery are the everyday factors that make cave exploration...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOU

Takei, George

Summary: Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2019

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Takei

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC TAK

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TAK

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA B TAKEI

Summary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALI

Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Platt, Richard.

Summary: Cross-sectional illustrations present an inside view of a medieval castle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 1994

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 Pla

Krensky, Stephen

Summary: In 1778, ten-year-old Johnny Adams and his father make a dangerous mid-winter voyage from Massachusetts to Paris in hopes of gaining support for the colonies during the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America Krensky

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRE

Summary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IVO

Summary: An intimate look at the personal journeys of five very different gay, straight and transgender people whose lives are forever changed by LGBTQ+ hate crime. As their world's intertwine, the film juxtaposes their inspirational stories of recovery with the powerful connections their public actions have produced, over three generations. Including India's only openly gay Prince, Manvendra Singh...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIE

Tatar, Steven.

Summary: A collection of twenty-six colorful knitted projects adapted from original patterns from the 1940s through the 1970, with detailed directions, schematic charts, and color guides.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 TAT

Summary: He was called 'the bionic kid'. Todd Marinovich was molded by his father to be an athlete from birth, including stretching exercises in his crib and a strict diet and fitness routine. A pioneer who developed ground-breaking strength and conditioning techniques, Marv Marinovich believed his strict systems would sculpt his son into a top athlete. But along with the pursuit of perfection came...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: ESPN Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAR

Turkel, Nury

Summary: Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURKEL, NURY TUR

Summary: A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEO

Alexander, Stephon

Summary: "Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 ALE

Alexander, Stephon

Summary: "A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics,"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 ALE