Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: When a dissident from the Martian-conquered future, Erik Killraven, threatens to overthrow Wakanda, the disgraced prince must wager what little is left of his soul to save his people! And for years, the Maroons have lain dormant, planning the next stage of their rebellion. At last, it is time to strike - with a treasure hunt for unstable Vibranium! And with the Black Panther once again in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLABendis, Brian Michael.
Summary: "Captain America has called th New Avengers to war against the X-Men, and Luke Cage will be forced to reconcile a decision that has been hanging over his head for months: Stand with his wife and child? Or suit up alongside the Avengers? Then, Iron Fist discovers the shocking secret history of the Phoenix in K'un-Lun's Book of the Iron Fist! Hope Summers journeys to Iron Fist's magical home to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Wordwide, Inc. 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther diamond, Clouseau is assigned to a dream team of international detectives who are under pressure to bring the master thief to justice before he strikes again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PZub, Jim
Summary: Nick Fury is slowly learning things are about to get much worse when news breaks out that Iron Man is losing control and to top it all off, the Avenger is being poisoned and could die at any moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AVEBlack, Mary
Contents: [Disc 1]. Turning away -- Still believing -- One & only -- Wonder child -- Don't say OK -- Wildest dreams -- Dimming of the day -- Babes in the wood -- Speaking with the angel -- I misunderstood -- I will be there -- Bless the road -- The circus -- Just a journey -- Flesh & blood -- Song for Ireland 2001. [disc 2]. Who knows where the time goes -- Ring them bells -- Saw you running -- Ae fond...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Curb Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BLASummary: The horrors of World War II are the subject of this episode. We’ve been told all our lives that this war was our greatest triumph, the moment when the forces of light - the Western democracies and the Soviet Union - prevailed over the forces of darkness, the Nazis and the other Axis powers. It was a conflict that began in Europe in September 1939 and ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Contents: 1. About archaeology. The old stone age and the evolution of man. The new stone age and the beginning of farming. Mesopotamia and Palestine. The Egyptian world.--2. Asia Minor, Greece and Italy: the classical world and its background. India, China and elsewhere. Britain and Europe. America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1963
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 WORBlack Thought
Summary: Through vivid vignettes, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots tells dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him, each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma and loss, illuminating the redemptive power of the upcycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK THOUGHT BLABendis, Brian Michael.
Summary: "1959. Under presidential orders, Nick Fury assembles the first Avengers: Victor Creed. Namora. Kraven the Hunter. Dominic Fortune. Silver Sable. Ulysses Bloodstone. Their mission? Stop the rise of Red Skull's Fourth Reich--or die trying. Present day. Luke Cage's New Avengers are settling in to life at Avengers Mansion. But as the team begins to gel, Norman Osborn's H.A.M.M.E.R. is secretly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 AVEWulf, Andrea
Summary: A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity's relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON WULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HUMBOLDT WULSummary: This program studies European exploration and conquest, beginning in the late Middle Ages and leading up to the emergence of the major colonial powers. Byzantium's fall in 1453 sets the narrative stage for Henry the Navigator's massive initiative to find new trade routes into Asia. Henry's nautical school at Sagres is described in detail, along with the voyages of Columbus, Gil Eannes, Vasco da...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Hagens, Gunther von.
Summary: Catalog of Gunther von Hagen's exhibition of human bodies preserved by "plastination"and presented as "natural art" (p. 13). Work also includes a short history of anatomy and essays on ethical perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute für Plastination 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.New Riders of the Purple Sage
Contents: Chapter 1, August 1, 1969, The Bear's Lair, Berkeley, California, set 2. Disc 1. Six days on the road (3:33) ; Henry (3:47) ; What's made Milwaukee famous (5:05) ; I've got a tiger by the tail (3:54) ; Don't take any chances (6:53) ; Connection (4:37) ; Delilah (4:12) ; Bonus tracks from set 1. A-11 (5:28) ; Garden of Eden (5:22) ; Hello trouble (4:32) ; Last lonely eagle (5:20) ; Whatcha gonna...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This final episode describes the Cold War as a continuation of the “war of the world” in which millions died in proxy wars conducted by the two superpowers. World War II may have been the central act of an epic struggle between rival empires, but the Cold War continued the turbulence that marked the entire 20th century as the most violent period in history. The end of the Cold War led to great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1911, the first newsreels flickered in America's nickelodeons. In the mid-1960s, they vanished from movie theaters as nightly television newscasts came to dominate visual journalism. In between, newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. In this program, Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Black, Frank
Contents: Whatever happened to pong? (1:34) -- Thalassocracy (1:33) -- (I want to live on an) Abstract plain (2:17) -- Calistan (3:22) -- The vanishing spies (3:37) -- Speedy Marie (3:33) -- Headache (2:52) -- Sir Rockaby (2:54) -- Freedom rock (4:16) -- Two reelers (3:01) -- Fiddle riddle (3:29) -- Olé Mulholland (4:41) -- Fazer eyes (3:36) -- I could stay here forever (2:27) -- The hostess with the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 4 A D/Elektra 1994
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLASummary: This chapter of the acclaimed series New York: A Documentary Film provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following the 2001 terrorist attacks on September 11, reaching back to when the idea of a “world trade center” was first conceived and the towers were constructed. Filmmaker Ric Burns explores the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the 9/11 attack - and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to take on a dangerous wave of street-level threats in a new series by co-writers Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me and Marvel's Black Panther) and Yona Harvey (Black Panther: World of Wakanda), and legendary artist Butch Guice! The death of a Harlem activist kicks off a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASummary: This first episode posits that economic volatility, ethnic conflict and empires in crisis combined to spawn the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts. This led to the rise of the brutal regimes of Germany, Japan and Russia, the “age of genocide” and a preoccupation with racial purity. It gives an excellent work up to the 20th century in conflict. Spanning Asia and Europe, it portrays the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Winston, Sherri
Summary: "Wednesday's brother's drone went missing in their own backyard. And that can mean only one thing--the thief is one of their friends! Can the neighborhood's newest service dog help Wednesday sniff out the bandit? Or will the case of the missing drone be a doggone disaster?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WINBlack, Robin.
Contents: The guide -- If I loved you -- Immortalizing John Parker -- Harriet Elliot -- Gaining ground -- Tableau vivant -- Pine -- A country where you once lived -- Divorced, beheaded, survived -- The history of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores the turbulent and often harrowing years from 1945 to 2003. Emerging from the Depression and the Second World War as the most powerful metropolis on Earth, New York soon confronted urban woes of unprecedented proportions, and fought for its very existence. In exploring the social, economic, and physical forces that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Black, Mary.
Contents: Still believing (3:40) -- Bright blue rose (4:00) -- Golden mile (4:18) -- Babes in the wood (4:13) -- The thorn upon the rose (4:10) -- Brand new star (2:35) -- Prayer for love (4:32) -- Adam at the window (4:13) -- The dimming of the day (3:36) -- Might as well be a slave (3:00) -- Just around the corner (4:00) -- The urge for going (5:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gift Horse/Curb Records 1991