Summary: Queen Elizabeth's realm is divided, politically unstable and dangerous. We see her troubled reign through the eyes of her spymasters, Willian and Robert Cecil, a father and son team in charge of counter terrorism and the protection of the fragile life of the one woman on whom everything depends. Looks at the entrapment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the capture and escape of Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV QUESummary: 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 SOUBessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESNorman, Jessye.
Summary: Jessye Norman is not only one of the world's most admired and beloved opera stars--she is an American icon whose life story is as inspiring as the fictional plot triumphs she sang onstage. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of many generations of hardworking slave and free ancestors, she grew up amid the challenges of Jim Crow racism, with the civil rights movement just beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORMAN, JESSYE NORSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSakhai, Essie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.7 SakhaiSummary: Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUChilds, Laura.
Summary: Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChilds, Craig
Summary: "From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.7 CHIChilds, Craig
Summary: Discusses the Earth's inherent instability and susceptibility toward violent natural disasters and climate extremes, challenging beliefs about apocalyptic inevitabilities while revealing how to change humanity's place within the planet's cycles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 550 CHIBloom, Jessi.
Summary: Presents advice for keeping chickens in the garden, discussing such topics as housing, garden design, landscaping, fencing, plant choices, and predator control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal BloomKlein, Jessi
Summary: "YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLEBessire, Lucas
Summary: "This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 BESSchild, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Auto Review 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 SchildChiles, James R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Book 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 CHIChilds, Craig
Summary: Written in his trademark lyrical style, Childs' riveting book carries readers directly into his adventures and discoveries, lifting the curtain on the ethical dilemmas and dark side of archaeology and exploring the field's transgressions against the cultures it tries to preserve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 CHIChilds, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Putnam Inc 2001
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Summary: Meet Bessie Coleman. She was the first African-American woman to earn her international pilots license. And she did so against great odds. No one in America was willing to teach a black woman to fly. Still, Bessie never gave up on her dream of becoming a world-famous aviator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLEMAN ALELessig, Lawrence
Summary: "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LESLessig, Lawrence.
Summary: "... takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Lessig seeks out the root...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LESMebane, Jeanie
Summary: Freshwater marshes are found throughout the United States and in many countries around the world. And in every marsh, there is an opportunity to view dozens of species of animal life. Written in a rhyming cumulative style like The House that Jack Built, At the Marsh in the Meadow portrays the wetlands food chain, showing how all forms of life, from the mud at the bottom of the marsh to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.8 MEBAlkire, Jessie
Summary: "Kids will explore one of Earth's important energy resources with Biofuel Energy Projects. They'll read about the history of biofuel, where it comes from, and how we use it. They'll make candles out of butter, create ethanol from different types of sugar, and more. Projects include color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.95 ALKAlkire, Jessie
Summary: Read all about volcanology in Super Simple Volcano Projects. Kids will learn about different kinds of volcanoes and how they form. Discover how scientists study volcanoes and try to predict when they will erupt. Then, build an erupting volcano, create a volcano landscape, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle 2018