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100 greatest books ever written Barnes & Noble classics Classic literature with classical music Combating Conflict with Character Dover thrift editions Focus Features spotlight series George Michael vol. 1 Marvel illustrated Tantor unabridged classics What would you do? (New York, N.Y.)Howell, Izzi
Summary: Prejudice takes many forms: sexism, racism, and ageism. It can be intolerance to those with different religions, bodies, sexual preference, or gender identity. Additionally, prejudices can sometimes be hard to identify in one's self since they are often formed from the society in which we live. This book is an essential part of any young reader's library. The main text not only explains common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.3 HOWSummary: Prejudice isn't something we're born with-and if we learn it, we can unlearn it. The first step in that process is to study it objectively, as this video does through candid interviews, dramatizations, and expert commentary. Offering a practical definition of prejudice, the video explores its basis in ignorance and fear of outsiders, the qualities it most frequently targets (race, ethnicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Pittman, Allison.
Summary: After moving to Northfield with her family in 1984, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse's effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team, Elyse finds herself curious about Charlie's popular and brooding best friend, Billy Fitz....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wander, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PITSummary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BrideSummary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PGButler, Nancy
Summary: An adaptation of the original by Jane Austen that tells of Lizzy Bennet and her loveable, eccentric family as they navigate through tricky British social circles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The problem of obesity is discussed against the backdrop of the recent trial of a San Francisco mother convicted of child abuse after her seriously overweight daughter died as a result of obesity. Topics discussed include prejudice against the overweight population; how medical communities and the social system are failing the obese; our society's habit of equating beauty with being thin; what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Austen, Jane
Summary: Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighborhood. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beauty Panic Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chatham River Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: The classic story of class-conscious eighteenth-century England and the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The clash between opinionated Elizabeth and proud Mr. Darcy is set against a backdrop of wonderful minor characters and the social system in which they all live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: Alternately enchanted and affronted by the haughty, opinionated Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet suspends her usual, more rational judgment concerning him, putting her chance for romance in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION Austen 1980Austen, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1993
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Summary: Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSSummary: Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this group of ABC News segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses-from overt hostility towards other races and cultures to acts of genuine compassion. Scenes include a bakery clerk's refusal to serve a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf; cruelty towards an overweight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Austen, Jane
Summary: Social and romantic misunderstandings combine against the Bennet sisters in their pursuit of suitable romantic attachments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: The story of Mrs. Bennett's finding husbands for her five daughters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: InAudio 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006Michael, George
Contents: Praying for time -- Freedom 90 -- They won't go when I go -- Something to save -- Cowboys and angels -- Waiting for that day -- Mothers pride -- Heal the pain -- Soul free -- Waiting (Reprise)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MICAusten, Jane
Summary: Much has been said of the light and sparkling side of Pride and Prejudice -- the delicious social comedy, the unerring dialogue, the satisfying love stories and its enchanting and spirited heroine. None the less, the novel is also about deeper issues in which Jane Austen demonstrates her belief that the truly civilized being maintains a proper balance between reason and energy. As Tony Tanner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSSummary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001Austen, Jane
Summary: Elizabeth Bennett's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by his arrogant pride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AustenSummary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYAusten, Jane
Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1995