Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUWilson, August
Summary: The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 WILWilson, August.
Contents: Ma Rainey's black bottom -- Fences -- Joe Turner's come and gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILWilson, August.
Summary: Explores the life and career of American playwright August Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service. 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUGSummary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLCameron, Angus (Donald Angus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.691 CAMBaxter, Angus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAXGunn, Angus M. (Angus Macleod)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551 GUNBaxter, Angus
Summary: Guide to tracing your ancestors in every country in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAXBaxter, Angus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAXWason, Betty
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 WASAgus, David
Summary: "From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life. After considering the discoveries that have led to progress in treating some diseases, Dr. David B. Agus asked an essential question: Why aren't we better at curing illnesses like cancer?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 AGUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 613 AGUAngus, Charlie
Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANGAngus, Julie.
Summary: Accompanied by her husband and their ten-month-old son, Angus collects samples from ancient trees to determine where the first olive tree originated, feasts on inky black tapenades and codfish drizzled with olive oil, witnesses the harvesting of olives in Greece, and visits perhaps the oldest olive tree in the world on Crete. The result is a fascinating history and biography of this most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 ANGKonstam, Angus.
Summary: The History of Pirates traces piracy from the seas of antiquity to the New World and beyond. Piracy flourished in the early eighteenth century, even Julius Caesar was captured by pirates-and it still exists today; boats sailing through the South China Sea are regulary attacked by modern-day buccaneers. Detailed maps bear vivd testimony to the far-ranging exploits of these capricious, sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 KONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910.45 KONMurdoch, Angus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.W. Drier and L.G. Koepel 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.343 MURBaxter, Angus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAX1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 BAX
Baxter, Angus
Summary: Offers information on locating birth, marriage, and death certificates, emigration registers, guild records, vaccination lists, census returns, church records, orphan lists, and other documentation necessary to trace an ancestor's European roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 BAXBaxter, Angus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 BAXDeaton, Angus
Summary: "The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting two hundred and fifty years ago,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DEAFletcher, Angus
Summary: "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 809 FLEFletcher, Angus
Summary: "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FLEHanson, Jason
Summary: "When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life. In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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Summary: "With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021