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Administrative agencies Administrative agencies United States Comic books, strips, etc Bundy, Ted Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark) 1880-1965 Large type books Marshall, Garry Motion picture producers and directors Social service Social service United States Comic books, strips, etc United StatesSummary: Vivid illustrations enhance concrete details and convey the courage and triumph of this remarkable American, beginning with her harsh childhood of slavery, escape to freedom, pivotal role in the Underground Railroad, and through into old age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nutmeg Media 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV APPThompson, Gare.
Summary: A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Summary: "Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBKepner, Tyler
Summary: "From the New York Times baseball columnist, a ... history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KEPSelzer, Adam.
Summary: Abraham Lincoln is one of the most haunted--and haunting--presidents in U.S. history. Sightings of Lincoln's ghost, as well as the ghost of his assassin, have been reported for more than 150 years. Visited by eerie premonitions, morbid dreams, and unusual events that seem too bizarre to be coincidence, Lincoln has become the source of dozens of myths and paranormal mysteries. Investigating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.70 SELSummary: An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRIGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: When you work for Black Ops SOcial Services, there's never a slow day at the office. Maybe today's the day the clockwork receptionist's evil gears will kick in. Maybe the office supplies will vote to go on strike. Maybe a mad scientist will escape the facility and go on a high-fashion funkadelic rampage. But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of topless mud-wrestling, the staff of Project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: In its ongoing mission to assist America's nonhuman citzenry, Project Skin Horse is dispatched to Alaska, where someone's been dining on National Guardsmen. Snowbound, the field team falls back on its basic survival skills: Unity's zombie strength, Sweetheart's canin (and Canadian) instincts, and Tip's talent for coordinating boots with leggings. Will the frozen North be tamed? WIll Tip find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Couscous Collective 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARKepner, Tyler
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly-entertaining history of the World Series, based on years of archival research and interviews with hundreds of players and managers, filled with never-before-heard details of the most exciting and fascinating tales from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is baseball's greatest stage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KEPNeiman, Garrett
Summary: "It's no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth inequality - and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men. Over the past three decades, America's richest white men have only become richer, while those suffering in poverty have only gotten poorer. The divide may seem too great to bridge, but Rich White Men exposes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit, Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 NEIGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: "Somewhere in this great nation of ours is Project Skin Horse, an overworked, underfunded secret agency dedicated to assisting America's nonhuman citizens. The receptionist is a clockwork robot, the project head is a swarm of bees, the field team consists of Sweetheart the talking dog and her faithful zombie Unity, and Dr. Tip Wilkin, the lone human staffer, feels he can only do his job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrett, Kent
Summary: The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen 'Negro' boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.1 GARFeiler, Bruce
Summary: America's workforce is at a once-in-a-generation turning point: unprecedented numbers are quitting their jobs, rethinking their routines, breaking away from stifling expectations. The most suffocating iron cage of all is the idea that each of us must follow a linear career" lock into a dream early, always climb higher, never stop until you reach the top. Few ideas have squandered more human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 FEIKemper, Steve
Summary: "In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks. Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America's most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed to serve as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KEMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73 KEMSummary: Contains the entire third season of the television program "House" in which the controversial Dr. Gregory House and his team diagnose and treat mysterious illnesses. Includes special features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOURubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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Summary: "Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 MEIMarshall, Garry.
Summary: In My Happy Days in Holly wood, Marshall takes us on a journey from his stickball-playing days in the Bronx to the joys and challenges of working with the Fonz and the young Julia Roberts, the "street performer" Robin Williams, and the young Anne Hathaway, among many others. This honest, vibrant, and often hilarious memoir reveals a man whose career has been defined by his drive to make people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MARSHALL, GARY MARSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: A portrait of late actor Anton Yelchin, "Love, Antosha", explores his successes and struggles through his journals, photography, original music, and interviews with his colleagues, including Chris Pine, Kristen Stewart, and Jennifer Lawrence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOVContents: Roll, Alabama, roll : The Alabama / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:00) -- Shenandoah / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:27) -- Clear the track and let the bullgine roll / Sam Eskin (1:31) -- Greenland whale fisheries / Stuart Gillespie (2:11) -- Paddy Doyle's boots / Alan Mills and the Shanty Men (:36) -- The black ball line / The Foc'sle Singers (:59) -- The sloop John B. / The Dicey Doh Singers...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CLAMeier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017