Cooper, James Fenimore
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Publisher / Publication Date: State University of New York Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOLe Guin, Ursula K.
Contents: The first contact with the Gorgonids -- Newton's sleep -- The ascent of the north face -- The rock that changed things -- The Kerastion -- The Shobies' story -- Dancing to Ganam -- Another story, or, A fisherman of the Inland Sea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1994
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SC LEGHoare, Philip.
Summary: Navigating between human and natural history and between science and myth, chronicles the author's journey through the oceans to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts, and to seek encounters with animals and people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4092 HOABartlett, Anne.
Summary: Describes the traditions, culture, music, food, and family life of the Aborigines; and how they are working to revive their heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 994 BARSummary: A startling look at preacher Jim Jones, his life prior to the mass-suicides in Guyana, and the event that took place leading up to that fateful day in 1978.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JONStone, Joel (Joel Lagrou)
Contents: Introduction: steam navigation on the Great Lakes -- Steam navigation from 1817 to 1860 -- Harnessing steam -- Early years on the lakes -- Opening the frontier -- Birth of an industry -- Regional development -- Maritime politics -- The palace steamer era -- Steam navigation from 1860 to 1900 -- The Civil War years -- New era, new business models -- Changing tastes and technologies -- Steam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime StoneIrving, Robert.
Contents: Sunrise on the sea -- Pure paradise -- Balancing -- Island smile -- Daydreams -- Garden of wonder -- Another world -- Sweet euphoria -- Watching the waves roll in -- Spirit reborn
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Somerset Entertainment, Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE ISLBowen, Natasha
Summary: Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Summary: An unforgettable fantasy debut inspired by West African mythology, this is Children of Blood and Bone meets The Little Mermaid, in which a mermaid takes on the gods themselves. A way to survive. A way to serve. A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata--a mermaid--collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home. But when a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOWThompson, Christina
Summary: "A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: The pioneering naturalist's works exploring the Earth's oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 CARBritish Sea Power
Contents: Men toghether today -- Apologies to insect life -- Favours in the beetroot fields -- Something wicked -- Remember me -- Fear of drowning -- The lovely -- Carrion -- Blackout -- Lately -- A wooden horse -- Childhood memories -- Heavenly waters.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Trade Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BritiBlackhawk, Ned
Summary: "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 BLA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Contents: King of kings / Prince Buster & the Skatalites -- Magic star / The Skatalites -- Can't you see / Doreen Shaffer & the Skatalites -- The stage / The Toasters -- Crazy bald heads / Fishbone -- Honky tonk parts 1 & 2 / Ernest Ranglin backed by Jump with Joey -- Barefootin' / Dan-I & Jump with Joey -- Penny reel / Hepcat -- Stop that train / Ocean 11 -- Take five / Rico & Freetown -- Rudy girl /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SKAEarthen Sea
Contents: The present mist -- About that time -- Delicately in the sunlight -- Apparent lushness -- Exuberant burning -- Above the clouds -- The flats, 1975 -- Also an act of love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC EARJars of Clay (Musical group)
Contents: After the fight (4:32) -- Age of immature mistakes (3:53) -- Reckless forgiver (3:52) -- Human race (3:57) -- Love in hard times (4:31) -- Pennsylvania (4:33) -- Loneliness & alcohol (4:45) -- I don't want to forget (3:49) -- Fall asleep (4:41) -- Skin & bones (3:52) -- Left undone (3:58) -- Inland (4:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS JARSummary: The Greeks prayed to Poseidon before embarking on sea journeys. They offered him the first fish caught, called him "the savior," and attributed their naval victory over the Persians to him. In this program, we learn how Poseidon was saved by his mother Rhea, and how he acquired his trident and used it to help his brother Zeus in his struggle against the Titans and Giants. We see some of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 TOLEllis, William Donohue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 ELLDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNPermanent Peoples' Tribunal
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Synthesis Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 ONTSummary: Galileo's recantation in 1633 opened a gap between Christianity and science, a separation that widened as the first great age of European exploration came to a close. This program studies the second great age ushered in during the latter half of the 18th century amidst a thickening web of French and British colonialism-an age in which maps and charts facilitated political and economic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC INLSummary: As controversy swirls around the issue of same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian couples in North America and abroad are speaking out for the right to marry. Filmed in British Columbia after the legalization of same-sex unions, this program introduces the victorious litigants, who share their views on marriage, religious and political opposition, child adoption, and, most of all, love. Interviews...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006