Jones, Shirley
Summary: Shirley Jones is an American film legend of the first order, having starred in Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man, as well as playing her Oscar-winning role as a prostitute in Elmer Gantry long before The Partridge Family. On that iconic show, she portrayed the epitome of American motherhood, a symbol to generations of families in the 1970s, and she remains a cult icon today.But for those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JONES, SHIRLEY JONAbbott, Shirley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 ABBHalperin, Shirley.
Summary: A celebration of the hit show "American Idol" chronicles each season with profiles of the finalists, judges, and winners, and includes more than seven hundred images depicting memorable moments from the show's ten-year history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HALGlubok, Shirley.
Summary: A survey of American art from 1940 to the present which includes "white writing," action painting, abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, stabiles, and kinetic sculpture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 709 GLUGoerz, Gillian
Summary: Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GOERedmond, Shirley-Raye
Summary: Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.308 REDSummary: Shirley Clarke was brilliant, scandalous, bold, and incredibly talented. Had she been a man, film historians would have long ago placed her in the pantheon of great auteurs, alongside Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. Today, her triumph can be recognized in her ability to be herself--one of the great originals of her time. A true artist, Clarke combined her innate impishness and sense of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGBolden, Tonya
Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHISmithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOHarper, Judith E.
Summary: Portrays the treatment and struggles of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and their contributions to the war effort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HARSummary: A visual history of the Jacksons combines exclusive interviews, anecdotes, quotes, and previously unseen family archive photographs to trace their meteoric rise and history-making tours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 JACLevy, Janey
Summary: "It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. But it's not true. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. And second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 LEVBiel, Steven
Summary: Presents a comprehensive examination of the classic 1930 painting "American Gothic" by artist Grant Wood, describes how it came to represent traditional American values, and how it was later used in television, politics, advertising, and popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BIEMeier, Matt S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 MEIEakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLCurwood, Anastasia Carol
Summary: "Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an 'unbought and unbossed' firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHISHOLM, SHIRLEY CURJackson, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Young 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 JACSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Calkhoven, Laurie
Summary: "A ready-to-read level 3 biography of Shirley Chisholm, who, in 1972 became the first African-American woman to enter the Democratic presidential race in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CALWilliams, Cindy
Summary: The star of Laverne & Shirley tells stories of her struggles as a child growing up with meager means and dreaming of becoming an actress. She also shares many misadventures and amusing anecdotes about some of the most famous actors in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, CINDY WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLIAMS WILHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: Describes the often heroic stories of Mexican American immigrants, largely through their own words and pictures. Includes original documents such as selections from letters, memoirs, and newspapers to relate their experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 HOOJackson, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 JACSummary: "This collection of yummy recipes contains cool ideas for every day of the week - whether you need grab-and-go meals for busy mornings, want to surprise someone you love with a beautiful breakfast tray, or can't wait to host your friends for a superstar brunch party on the weekend."--Page 2 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2017