Summary: There has been a Laemmle in the movie business since there's been a movie business. This is the story of a beloved Arthouse Cinema chain in Los Angeles with an astounding legacy. Over four generations, Laemmle's have dedicated themselves to supporting, innovating, and elevating the art of filmmaking. Popularizing independent films, documentary films, and their filmmakers, the LaemmleTheatres'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONLMartin, Jacqueline Briggs
Summary: Welcome to Sandor Katz's no-desk, new-ways school! There are no tests, no rules - just happy, hungry people learning how to make fermented food. All they need are their favorite vegetables, salt, and the TINY WILD. These invisible microbes change cucumbers into crunchy pickles, and cabbages into zingy-zangy sauerkraut and kimchi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Readers to Eaters 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KATZ MARMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORMaltin, Leonard
Summary: Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books, an imprint of Paladin Communications 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALTIN, LEONARD MALSummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOHardin, David
Summary: "A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against the author's personal journey as his mother declines into dementia and eventual death. Written with a poet's eye for detail and quiet metaphor, Standpipe is an intimate look at one man's engagement with both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDIN, DAVE HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South HardinWessels, Marcie
Summary: "A picture book biography of Ralph Baer, nicknamed "The Father of Videogames," which shows how a great inventor found a way to transform the early television set into a vehicle for gaming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAEHartig, John H.
Summary: "The stories of fourteen people who led efforts to clean up environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes are told to inspire others to get involved and care for the place they call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HARSilko, Leslie Marmon
Summary: Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILKO, LESLIE SILKurtz, Jane.
Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
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Summary: "Helen Keller was an activist, rebel, performer, romantic and so much more! Most stories about Helen Keller focus on the story of her deaf-blindness and scholarship, but there is more to Helen than her disability. This story teaches children to look beyond the surface with everyone they encounter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PINGellman, Barton
Summary: "Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 GELSeletzky, Leta McCollough
Summary: In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. He had a second identity: an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOLLOUGH, MARRELL SELHolub, Joan
Summary: "Little dreamers make our big world better"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HOLWeaver, Martin G. (Martin Good)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Publication Board] 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374815 WEABaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARKratt, Martin
Summary: "Meet Chris and Martin Kratt, two brothers who turned a love of animals into an amazing career! They have produced, written, directed, and starred in several PBS series and specials over the years. Most recently, they have become known for PBS's smash hit animated show Wild Kratts. Along the way, they traveled the world and encountered incredible creatures, all while combining science education...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: "A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEBFreeman, Martha
Summary: "A collection of biographies of twenty groundbreaking women scientists who were curious kids and grew up to make incredible discoveries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FREHerman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina
Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HERSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLEMicklos, John
Summary: "English explorer Henry Hudson had long searched for a quicker, northern sailing route from Europe to Asia. Three previous expeditions had failed. In 1610, he embarked again to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But when icy waters stranded Hudson and the Discovery in a bay for the winter, tensions flared. The crew lost faith in their captain's leadership and began to plot...mutiny! Told...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 MICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.92 MICSánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel)
Summary: From an early age, Maria Montessori challenged the norm, studying science at an all-boys school. As an adult, she became the first female doctor in her country, specializing in the care of children. She went on to make important discoveries that completely changed the course of traditional education, setting up Montessori schools around the world. This inspiring story of the revolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONKatz, Jonathan
Summary: "Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian feminist Eve Adams, and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912, took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021