Summary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010

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Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Kleist, Reinhard

Summary: The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days after the fight, Paret, who had directed a homophobic slur at Griffith during the weigh-in, died from his injuries. In Knock Out!, Reinhard Kleist draws a powerful, emotive portrait of a bisexual black athlete who, facing racism and homophobia in 1960s America,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2021

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Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Picard, Marc

Summary: "Monsieur Picard, who has previously written about the etymologies of the French migrants who settled Quebec and Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries, now follows the spread of those surnames to various English-speaking parts of North America. Besides its derivations and Anglicizations, this resource references the first French-Canadian settlers bearing the names found in the dictionary....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Beck, Glenn.

Summary: Radio host, television personality, and author Glenn Beck revisits famous patriot Thomas Paine's Common Sense to reexamine today's political arena and present a case against big government.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Radio Arts/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009

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Prine, John

Contents: Disc one. Spanish pipedream (3:25) ; Often is a word I seldom use (3:32) ; Angel from Montgomery (4:44) ; Fish and whistle (3:25) ; Crooked piece of time (4:02) ; Blue umbrella (4:23) ; Illegal smile (5:51) ; Sabu visits the Twin Cities alone (5:13) ; The bottomless lake (7:09) ; Sam Stone (4:52) ; That's the way that the world goes round (4:00) ; There she goes (3:04) ; I had a dream last...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Prine, John

Contents: Chinatown / John Prine -- Automobile / John Prine -- Killing the blues / Rolly Salley -- No name girl / Billy Lee Riley and Jack Clement -- Saigon / John Prine and John Burns -- This cold war with you / Floyd Tillman -- Baby let's play house / Arthur Gunter -- Down by the side of the road / John Prine -- How lucky / Joh Prine -- Ubangi stomp / Charles Underwood.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1979

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Prine, John.

Contents: Be my friend tonight -- Aimless love -- Me, myself and I -- The oldest baby in the world -- Slow boat to China -- Bottomless lake --Maureen, Maureen -- Somewhere someone's falling in love -- People puttin' people down -- Unwed fathers -- Only love.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Oh Boy Records 1989

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Prine, John.

Summary: Several of indie music's most inventive artists and songwriters come together to pay homage to one of America's most acclaimed folk musicians, John Prine, who has been cutting great records since the early 1970s.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Oh Boy Records 2010

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Summary: Selected, annotated and produced by Stephen Wade, the 30 tracks on this release were all recorded during 1933 and 1946. There are recordings from Kentucky, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

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Vine, David

Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020

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Quinn, Anna

Summary: "A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules? After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

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Summary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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Chin-Quee, Anthony

Summary: "The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist--an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described "not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

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Summary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000

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Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: "In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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Summary: A feature documentary film following six individuals deploying and grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: America's first superstar designer rose to international fame in the 1970s, creating an empire and personifying the dramatic social and sexual revolution of the last century. Reaching beyond the glitz and glamour, acclaimed filmmaker Frederic Tcheng reveals Halston's profound impact on fashion, culture, and business.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Guin, Jerry

Summary: "Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Bradford, Richard

Summary: "Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Caravel 2021

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