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Families Lardner, Ring 1885-1933 One-person shows (Performing arts) Ring family Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 United States United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 19th (1862-1865) Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975 World War (1939-1945)Irvine, Joan
Summary: Offers step-by-step instructions for making pop-up cards, books, sculptures, and other objects out of materials found at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.54 IRVEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISSummary: On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOVIrving, John
Summary: The author presents a firsthand account of his involvement--or lack thereof--in the creation of the film versions of his novels, detailing his years of writing and rewriting his screenplay for "The Cider House Rules."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, JOHN IRVGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC GoethSummary: This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport. Told with actual video shot during the crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEMatthews, John 1948-
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Publisher / Publication Date: QUEST 0000
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Summary: "This chronological history of Detroit tells the story of the great industrial city from its begining as a French fur trading outpost in 1701 ot its new era of hope and renewal in 2001." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Vision Pub. 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Posing the question to one hundred and fifty of the world's leading scientists and thinkers, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 WHASummary: Working for change: Explores the birth of the social documentary in the U.S. and U.K. during the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOIrving, David John Cawdell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Congdon & Lattès 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 IRVGrant, John,d1949-
Summary: Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking--we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this "father of modern science" was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his bold curiosity extended to the dinner table as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 GRAIvins, William M
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760 IVILithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITSummary: Join the host of The Colbert Report as he celebrates the holidays with friends for a Yuletide evening of song, dance and nog-induced dementia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLGeorge, Jean Craighead 1919-
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GEOSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeWard-Perkins, J. B. (John Bryan)
Summary: Here in 450 plates--50 in full color--is the life and art of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae, the ancient Roman towns buried by a catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius for more than sixteen centuries until their discovery and excavation. This volume brings together more than 300 murals, sculptures, and artifacts recovered from the ashes and ultimately housed in the National Archaeological Museum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.7 WARSummary: "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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Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS LEWSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXISummary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREColletta, John Philip
Summary: Genealogical and historical information about George F. Ring, his brother Joe and Joe's wife Barbara Ring. Joseph was born in 1832 in France and married Barbara Miller. Their children were Magdalena, Anna, Joseph, George F., John M., Peter and Michael. Joseph's brother George F. was born in 1834 in France and married Catherine Hill. The "Rolling Fork tragedy" refers to a fire that occurred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Descent 2015