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Avery, Jaha Nailah Fig, Joe Kennedy, Kerry Mallis, Fern Meckler, Laura Saslow, EliSummary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PORSaslow, Eli
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow, a powerful portrait of a country grappling with the pandemic, told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 SASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 SASMeckler, Laura
Summary: "In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MECAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVESummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ART1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV ART
Mallis, Fern
Summary: "No topic is off-limits to Fern Mallis, award-winning creator of the Fashion Week in New York, when she hosts 'Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis' at New York's prestigious 92nd Street Y, a series of riveting in-depth interviews with the fashion industry's most talented, successful, and legendary personalities. Featuring nineteen inspiring interviews with American fashion luminaries, this engaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publicatoins, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 643.9 MALFig, Joe
Summary: Twenty-four painters, video, mixed- media artists, sculptors, photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools, techniques, quotidian habits, strategies for getting work done: music they listen to; hours they keep; relationships with gallerists, curators, friends, family, fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2015
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Summary: "Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.922 KENSummary: Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UNFSummary: Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015