Fowler, Jermaine
Summary: "Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who have come before us, Fowler brings hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Row House 2023
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Summary: Sabrina Galloway is one of the top scientists at EchoEnergy, a company that has made a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. There is the promise of a cleaner tomorrow, and the economic impact on world markets could be staggering. But in the euphoria of excitement, Sabrina makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVButterfly Child.
Contents: Blind Me So I May See -- Still Learning to Crawl -- Playfair Steps -- Our Delays -- No Longer Living in Your Shadow -- Sheets of Whitewashed Sun -- A Shot in the Dark -- Night Music -- Holding On -- The Only Sound -- Futures -- Lost in These Machines -- Beauty #2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell'orso Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUTKava, Alex
Summary: Sabrina Galloway is one of the top scientists at EchoEnergy, a company that has made a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. There is the promise of a cleaner tomorrow, and the economic impact on world markets could be staggering. But in the euphoria of excitement, Sabrina makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVWildman, Terry M.
Summary: Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Thunder Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILChugh, Dolly
Summary: "A revolutionary, psychology-based guidebook for developing resilience and grit to confront our whitewashed history and build a better, more just future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 CHUSummary: Join European travel expert and best-selling author, Rick Steves, to experience the quintessence of Spanish culture in Andalucía. Starting up high, in Spain’s whitewashed hill towns, we roll down to the coast to enjoy the windsurfing mecca of Tarifa. Then we catch a bit of Britain on the Rock of Gibraltar, and sail to Africa for a Moroccan finale in Tangier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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McGarrity, Michael.
Summary: Kerney is a brand-new sheriff in Santa Fe when an ambassador's wife is found dead. Before he can do anything, the Feds come in and take over. But Kerney is convinced they've whitewashed the whole thing, and that there are agents acting outside the law, so he mounts his own investigation, knowing full well he might not survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGWoods, Thomas E.
Summary: Libertarian author Woods sets the record straight with a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation's history--the ones that have been buried because they're too politically incorrect to discuss. Woods draws on real scholarship--as opposed to the myths, platitudes, and slogans so many other "history" books are based on--to ask and answer tough questions about American history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WOOSummary: Sevilla is the flamboyant city of Carmen and Don Juan. It’s where bullfighting is still politically correct and where little girls dream of growing up to become flamenco dancers. Become a “temporary local” and discover the hidden treasures of this Spanish gem with best-selling author and travel expert, Rick Steves. Sevilla has soul - and we feel it in its lacy Moorish palace, massive cathedral,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Amvrazi, Alexia
Summary: Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink bougainvillea, blue-domed Greek Orthodox churches, picturesque villages, and famous historical sites have lured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2018
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Summary: Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAMountain, David
Summary: The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations. Today history is often used to justify xenophobia, nationalism and inequality as we cling to grand origin stories and heroic tales of extraordinary men. Exploring myths, mysteries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books, Limited 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MOUClarke, Lucy
Summary: "The latest twisty psychological thriller from internationally-bestselling author Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls is the delicious story of a bachelorette trip on a stunning Greek island... that ends in murder"-- It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi's upcoming wedding. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASamatar, Sofia
Summary: "In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAMATAR, SOFIA SAMSummary: The attack on Pearl Harbor on the seventh of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW Two. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. With the arrival of the Cold War, the enemy image had to change quickly, and Hollywood obliged. Clara and Julia Kuperberg found the right interview partners in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV YELBrown, Kate Lord.
Summary: "High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn. Emma's free-spirited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2015Usitalo, Kath
Summary: To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the 1600s French voyageurs, explorers, missionaries, and fur traders arrived at Mackinac Island. Its strategic location in the straits between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas made it a military outpost the British and Americans found worth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press, LLC 2018