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Library of America special publicationKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: A bilingual collection of thirty-seven political and protest poems about the social conditions of America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 KINWarhus, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WARSummary: This program builds a plausible case for reincarnation in a country known to be skeptical of that phenomenon: America. Starting with the rigorous studies of Ian Stevenson, author of Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, the video provides both expert commentary by researchers and therapists and testimony from people who have had past-life experiences-everything needed to stimulate empirical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Campbell, James.
Summary: A retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. Among the great World War II conflicts, the three-week battle for Saipan is often forgotten--yet historian Donald Miller calls it"as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5453 CAMYounge, Gary
Summary: "On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in theUnited States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 YOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.6 YOUMichaelson, Ingrid
Summary: Ingrid Michaelson's music taps into universal themes like self-doubt, betrayal, and of course love, but her spirit is fiercely indie.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MICBranan, Cory
Contents: I Only Know -- Imogene -- Blacksburg -- Yeah, So What -- You Got Through -- The Vow -- Walls, MS -- Cold Blue Moonlight -- Another Nightmare in America -- Chameleon Moon -- Equinox -- Don't Go -- Visiting Hours -- My Father Was an Accordion Player.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRASupertramp (Musical group)
Contents: Gone Hollywood -- The logical song -- Goodbye stranger -- Breakfast in America -- Oh darling -- Take the long way home -- Just another nervous wreck -- Casual conversations -- Child of vision.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1979
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUPEmling, Shelley.
Summary: "Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURIE, MARIE EMLWatson, Bruce
Summary: Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WATBlur (Musical group)
Contents: Beetlebum -- Song 2 -- Country sad ballad man -- M.O.R. -- On your own -- Theme from retro -- You're so great -- Death of a party -- Chinese bombs -- I'm just a killer for your love -- Look inside America -- Strange news from another star -- Movin' on -- Essex dogs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parlophone 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BlurStanley, Ralph
Contents: CD one. We'll be sweethearts in heaven -- Mother no longer awaits me at home -- Our last goodbye -- Lonesome river -- I love no one but you -- It's never too late -- Loving you too well -- Too late to cry -- Little glass of wine -- I long to see the old folks -- Are you proud of America -- Rock bottom -- Another song, another drink -- Take me back -- You're going away -- Hulla-gull --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STASummary: South America has tilted to the left, and its socialist governments are forging an economic alliance that places public power, not market dynamics, at the center. The plan? To exploit revenues from the continent's abundant natural resources to build a better future where all will benefit from that wealth-and, in the process, to become free from North American interference. To explore the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Watson, Bruce
Summary: "In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 WATLichtman, Allan J.
Summary: "A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America There's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7305 LICKeith, Toby.
Contents: Made in America -- I need to hear a country song -- Clancy's Tavern -- Tryin' to fall in love -- Just another sundown -- Beers ago -- South of you -- Club Zydeco Moon -- I won't let you down -- Red solo cup -- Chillaxin'.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Show Dog Nashville 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KEIAmerica.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM AmericaSupertramp (Musical group)
Contents: Gone Hollywood (2010 Remastered) (5:20) -- The Logical Song (2010 Remastered) (4:11) -- Goodbye Stranger (2010 Remastered) (5:50) -- Breakfast In America (2010 Remastered) (2:39) -- Oh Darling (2010 Remastered) (4:02) -- Take The Long Way Home (2010 Remastered) (5:08) -- Lord Is It Mine (2010 Remastered) (4:10) -- Just Another Nervous Wreck (2010 Remastered) (4:25) -- Casual Conversations (2010...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M 2010
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Pollan, Michael.
Summary: Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 394.12 POLJarrow, Gail
Summary: Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J614.5 JARAmerica (Musical group)
Contents: Riverside -- Sandman -- Three roses -- Children -- A horse with no name Here -- I need you -- Rainy day -- Never found the time -- Clarice -- Donkey jaw -- Pigeon song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1972
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Place a hold to request this item.Sandoval-Strausz, A. K
Summary: "The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.3 SANHirsch, Edward
Summary: "We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRThomas, R. Eric
Summary: "The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home. After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life. Or,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023