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Blackhawk Films collection Honor bound novel ; 5 Japan past and present Mack Rhino, private eye 1 Matters of Race Mojo (London, England). July 2019 National parks, America's best idea Racial justice in America: Histories The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Thorndike Press large print biography seriesFilter By Series
Blackhawk Films collection Honor bound novel ; 5 Japan past and present Mack Rhino, private eye 1 Matters of Race Mojo (London, England). July 2019 National parks, America's best idea Racial justice in America: Histories The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Thorndike Press large print biography seriesPoe, Harry Lee
Summary: Slowing down to focus on his younger years, this detailed portrait of "Jack" Lewis helps us discover seeds of what would inform his later writings--such as his delight in literature, his key relationships, his suffering and struggles, and his intense pursuit of joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, C.S. POEJacobs, Paul DuBois
Summary: Mack Rhino, a private detective, is on the case when a big race is in town and all the runners are missing the laces to their sneakers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Quix 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE JACHartfield, Claire
Summary: "Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.8 HARDubois, Philippe J
Summary: "A French ornithologist and philosopher teach us to pause, look to the sky, and reconnect with the natural world, in twenty-two short lessons inspired by the secret lives of birds. There is a lot we can learn from birds if we pay attention. This elegant volume invites us to take a step back from our busy lives, to reconnect with nature, and to listen to the tiny philosophers of the sky. From...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.15 DUBWinn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINRussell, Jan Jarboe
Summary: A biography of LBJ's wife and a centering force in his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JOHNSON, LADY BIRD RUSRace
Contents: If you can -- Safe and sound -- Can get home -- Rose -- Ark again -- Sinking feeling -- The hours eat the flowers -- Seed -- Out like a lamb.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flameshovel Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RaceDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DU BOIS, W.E.B. DUBDuBois, Ellen Carol
Summary: Explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its leaders and activists, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 DUBSummary: The arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854 marked the stage for Japan's dramatic leap from the Middle Ages into modernity. The ports of Japan were forced open; the English, French, Russians, and Dutch promptly demanded-and got-the same privileges. In 1868, the last shogun gave way to a 15-year-old emperor, who dressed in Western-style clothes. Edo became Tokyo, education became a national passion,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Feist, Peter H.
Contents: Renoir's family, friends and teachers, 1841-1867 -- A new style of art, 1867-1871 -- The great decade of Impressionism, 1872-1883 -- Masterpieces of realist Impressionism -- The crisis of Impressionism and the "dry period," 1883-1887 -- Sickness and old age, 1888-1919 -- Renoir's late works -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919 : his life and work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B. Taschen 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 FEIDuBois, Brendan
Summary: To say that Brendan DuBois writes Thrillers is equivalent to saying that Fabergé was pretty good at decorating eggs. Not exactly wrong but a vast understatement of their accomplishments. Brendan DuBois's stories are not only filled with conflict, tension, and mystery, but they also dig into the issues that dominate our times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBAllman Brothers Band (Musical group)
Contents: Statesboro blues / Will McTell (4:17) -- Ramblin' man / Dickey Betts (4:46) -- Midnight rider / Gregg Allman (2:57) -- Southbound / Dickey Betts (5:08) -- Melissa / Gregg Allman, Steve Alaimo (3:54) -- Jessica / Dickey Betts (7:28) -- Ain't wastin time no more / Gregg Allman (3:40) -- Little Martha / Duane Allman (2:07) -- Crazy love / Dickey Betts (3:43) -- Revival / Dickey Betts (4:03) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM AllmanCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALLSummary: In the early 20th century, America had a dozen national parks, but they were a haphazard patchwork of special places under the supervision of different federal agencies. This episode traces how the conservation movement pushed the government to establish one unified agency to oversee all the parks. This led to the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. Its first director, Stephen...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Pacyga, Dominic A.
Contents: Introduction: Writing an urban biography -- Location, location, location! -- Emporium of the West -- The era of urban chaos -- Reacting to chaos : Pullman, the West Side, and the Loop -- The progressive and not so progressive city -- The immigrant capital and World War I -- Twentieth-century metropolis -- Years of crises : Depression and war -- Chicago after the war : changing times -- Daley's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 PACGriffin, W.E.B.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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Summary: Delegates at the Versailles Treaty. Group includes Australian PM Hughes; Serbian, Greek, Japanese leaders; Berthelot of France.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919
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Summary: Twenty two of the best early films directed by D.W. Griffith which helped shape cinematic narrative for two generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2002
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Contents: 21st century schizoid man (radio edit) Cadence and cascade (feat. Greg Lake, Gordon Haskell, Adrian Belew and Jakko Jakszyk) -- Starless (edit) -- Red -- Requiem (extended edit) -- Eyes wide open (acoustic version) -- Frakctured (from The Reconstrukction of light) -- Easy money (from Live in Chicago) -- Epitaph (from Live in Vienna) -- Meltdown (from Radical action to unseat the hold of monkey...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: This episode looks at the black/white paradigm in America today. Co-directed by Lulie Haddad and Orlando Bagwell, the program weaves the personal memoirs of John Edgar Wideman (Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race, and Society) and Jane Lazarre (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) with the stories from the staff at King-Drew County Medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Griffin, W.E.B.
Summary: August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRISummary: "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FOUMiller, T. Christian
Summary: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MILKennefick, Daniel
Summary: In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019