Summary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "Anne Rice's cosmology of Vampiredom from Akasha to Zenobia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK XSummary: An astonishingly intimate portrait of a deeply haunted but truly unstoppable virtuoso and the music that has enthralled legions of the world's most devoted fans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: "The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BECBeckett, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beckett Publications 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.1 BeckettBeckett, Samuel
Summary: As Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot, they discuss their lives and consider hanging themselves, but choose to wait for Godot instead, in the hope that he can tell them what their purpose is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.91 BECBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BeckettBeckett, Simon.
Summary: Forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter is prevailed upon to leave London and travel to a remote island in the Outer Hebrides to inspect a corpse that has beenbadly burned--except for one hand and one foot--and left in an unoccupied cottage that shows no fire damage, and the situation deteriorates as more bodies turn up and a storm moves in, trapping a now endangered Hunter with little hope of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BECBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Books 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704 BECBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759 BECBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759 BECBeckett, Galen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spectra 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECSummary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTBeckett, Samuel
Summary: This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.914 BECBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759 BECBaskett, Mickey.
Contents: Introduction -- Furniture preparation -- Supplies -- Old furniture -- New unfinished wood -- Decorating techniques -- Rooster cabinet -- Fern forest chest -- Diamonds bookcase -- Grapes & vines pie safe -- Leaves in a circle -- Orange checked chest -- Elegant console table -- Red & gold drop leaf table -- Geranium chest -- Fall leaves tray table -- Bee skep storage bench -- Rose armoire -- Baby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.7 BaskettLuckett, Oliver
Summary: "From visionary tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett and MIT Media Lab's Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media how it works, how it's changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit. In barely a decade, social media has positioned itself at the center of twenty-first century life. The combined power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 LUCTackett, Michael
Summary: Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the corn fields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl's original long shot projects, a skinny kid from the ghetto in Los Angeles who would one day become a beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.357 TACLuckett, Richard
Summary: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.23 LuckeFranks, Norman L. R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grub Street 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4494 RICHTHOFEN, MANFRED, FREIHERR VON FRAKING'S X.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990