Summary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUGangemi, Angelo.
Summary: Examines electricity, how it is produced, and how it ends up in the home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 GANSummary: 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 ARTTeatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRABryant, Kobe
Summary: In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant shares his vast knowledge and understanding of the game. Citing an obligation to teach young players, hardcore fans, and devoted students of the game how to play it "the right way," The Mamba Mentality takes us inside the mind of one of the most analytical and creative basketball players ever. Bryant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 BRYSummary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLWatson, Renée
Summary: "This unforgettable picture book introduces young readers to the life and work of Maya Angelou, whose words have uplifted and inspired generations of readers. The author of the celebrated autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya was the first Black person and first woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration, and her influence echoes through culture and history. She was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGAngell, Roger.
Summary: "The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. It goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche." "Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition - marked by league...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGNayani, Farzana
Summary: Nayani gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children. She offers practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege; and intentionally cultivate a sense of belonging. In providing an overview of key issues and current topics relevant to raising multiracial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 NAYAngell, Roger.
Contents: On the ball -- Starting to belong -- Buttercups rampant -- Stories for a rainy afternoon -- Season lightly -- Three for the Tigers -- Mets redux -- Landscape, with figures -- How the West was won -- Sunny side of the street -- Gone for good -- The companions of the game -- Agincourt and after -- In the counting house -- Scout -- Cast a cold eye.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGPearlman, Jeff
Summary: The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal combined-and collided-to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.323 PEAAngell, Marcia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 615.1 ANGAngell, Roger.
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGAngelo, Frank
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 ANGAngell, Harri
Summary: "Pilates for living contains over 70 simple and effective exercises, suitable for all levels and abilities, with clear explanations, tips and modification suggestions. You will also find expert osteopathic advice and motivational interviews"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sport 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ANGAngell, Roger
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGAngel, Dan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs Press 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIL2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 921 MIL
Angell, Marcia.
Summary: Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 ANGAngelo, Frank.
Summary: Text and approximately 400 historical photographs trace the history of Michigan from the earliest settlement to the 1950's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 ANGMcAllister, Angela
Summary: Collects fifty-two folktales and legends from around the world, including tales commemorating such holidays and events as Chinese New Year, Purim, World Oceans Day, World Food Day, and Kwanzaa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MCAJulivert, Angels.
Summary: Introduces the physical characteristics, life style, diet, and behaviors that are common to all birds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598 JULBahari, Maziar.
Summary: A former prisoner in one of Iran's most notorious prisons offers a moving memoir of how thoughts of his family got him through the days of torture, in a book that also sheds light on Iran's history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAHARI, MAZIAR BAHAngelo, Sandra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Discover Art Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Art Draw AngeloBatali, Mario.
Summary: Chef Mario Batali presents over one hundred simple seasonal recipes organized in month-by-month menus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011