Summary: Through candid interviews with first- and second-generation Vietnamese-Americans, this program documents the process of assimilation into American culture of refugees from the former Republic of Vietnam. Vu-Duc Vuong, of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as college students, professionals, and clergy explore what it means to be of Vietnamese descent in America today. Topics...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 BACSpring, Justin
Summary: During les trente glorieuses--a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis--Paris was not only the world's most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. American Gourmands in Paris explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chronicled the food and wine of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SPRGaines, Caseen
Summary: "For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.089 GAIMackell, Thomas
Contents: The fractured American retirement dream -- The new political reality -- The new realities of work and the workplace -- America's love affair with debt -- Employee benefits at a crossroad -- The retirement crisis -- The time is right for bold leadership -- A time for change -- How did we get where we are? -- A call to action -- Conclusion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: 331.25 MACKRum, Etaf
Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUMGood Marable, Karen
Summary: On the first day of spring, a young New Yorker, with her mother and aunts, takes the train to the ocean to make an offering of flowers and fruit to Mama Ocean, thanking her for her magnificence, and welcoming the new year.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOOClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLISummary: Authur Mitchell introduces this studio recording of Agnes de Mille's "Fall River legend'" based on the story of Lizzie Borden. Accused in 1892 of the brutal killing of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Borden experienced aa dramatic life of love, sadness, and ultimately murder, rendered here in a dance performance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS DANMarcom, Micheline Aharonian
Summary: "Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license--however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELRush, Elizabeth A.
Summary: "Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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Summary: Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNEWhyte, John
Summary: Drawing on the largest-ever survey of American diet and lifestyle, features three prescriptive weight-loss plans, advice, and research insights that will help readers get healthy, stay vital, and lose weight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 WHYIlʹf, Ilʹi͡a︡
Contents: The Road -- The Small Town -- Americans -- At the Birthplace of Mark Twain -- The Desert -- Indians -- California -- Hollywood -- Advertising -- Negroes -- New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cabinet Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ILFSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWGatwood, Olivia
Summary: One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GATEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGAMicklos, John
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Pennsylvania Colony"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.8 MICContents: Hot minerva -- Upside-down -- Slow dance -- The hare -- X -- Third man -- Over and over -- Line drawing #18 -- Toxic -- Smile at your graves -- Cosmology -- All is vanity -- Fleeing ghost -- Trista-Faux -- You must eat -- Stand and be counted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Wing 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE NEWHaley, James L.
Summary: The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996..9 HALSummary: Consists of video, audio, transcripts, and written lessons to teach basic English for work, home, and the community. Uses an immersion approach to cover a variety of situations encountered by new arrrivals in the United States. Intended for speakers of any language. Covers listening, speaking, reading, and writing English.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Information Group 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.34 ENGCall number: CD 428.34 ENG
Orr, Stephen
Summary: "Orr covers the entire spectrum of herbaceous plants, from culinary to ornamental to aromatic and medicinal, presenting them in an ... A to Z format packed with recipes, DIY projects, and ... examples of garden design highlighting herbal plantings"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2014