Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Havel, James T.
Contents: v. 1. The candidates -- v. 2. The elections, 1789-1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Library Reference USA 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 324.63 HAVHavel, James T.
Contents: v. 1. The candidates -- v. 2. The elections, 1789-1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Library Reference USA 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 324.63 HAVElmore, Bartow J.
Summary: How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula to Coke’s success was its strategy, from the start, to offload costs and risks onto suppliers, franchisees, and the government. For most of its history the company owned no bottling plants, water sources, cane- or cornfields. A lean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ELMElmore, Bartow J.
Summary: "A deeply researched and eye-opening history that shows how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed enterprise. Monsanto merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018, but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ELMGarrow, David J.
Summary: Publisher's description: Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR. GARBarton, E. T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 657 BARHaney, Jill
Summary: Provides advice on the basic financial skills involved in managing credit, along with a simple story about using a credit card to build credit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 HAN 1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 332 HANGarrow, David J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 GARVan Bavel, Jay J.
Summary: "A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior--and how these shared identities can inspire both personal change and social movements"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown Spark 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 VANHotez, Peter J.
Summary: "With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1969 HOTBERNSTEIN, BARTON J., ED
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 BERBarton, Barbara J.
Summary: This is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan focuses on the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The story travels through time from the days before European colonization and winds its way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.1 BARSmith, J. T. (John T.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HOWKaminkow, Marion J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magna Carta Book Co. 1967
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 973.36 MARSummary: This volume brings a new crop of quality shorts to audiences hungry for a second helping. This latest collection features 7 new films that encompass an incredibly diverse range of topics and styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FULNave, Orville J. (Orville James)
Summary: Nave's Topical Bible, " the best known of all topical bibles, has been a valuable Bible-study reference and a best-seller for more than 75 years. It is a comprehensive digest of over 20,000 topics and subtopics with more than 100,000 associated Scripture references. The most significant references for each topic actually include the full text of the verse cited--saving the need to separately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topical Bible Pub. Co. 1897
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.3 NAVSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWEnglish, T. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime--and law enforcement--that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger--the brother of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 ENGJones, T. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NTC Publishing 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016