Summary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IDuncan, Dayton.
Summary: In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 DUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.78 DUNDanon, Danny.
Summary: Outlines a plan for Israel's future, arguing against any acquiescence to U.S. foreign policy and discussing such topics as the "two state/one state" stalemate, nationalism, and the potential for severing the bond between Israel and the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 DANDunnan, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 DUNSummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BENCarson, Candy
Summary: "Like most Americans, you might think of Ben Carson as a trailblazing brain surgeon and, in the last few years, as an outspoken commentator on national issues. But his wife of more than forty years knows him as so much more: a loving husband, a devoted father, a devout Christian, a committed philanthropist, and a fierce patriot. Now Candy Carson introduces us to the private side of a very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CARDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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Summary: An account of Lewis and Clark's epic journey; the author's retracing of the historic trail; and the journey of the American West in the years in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.8 DUNLarson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LARDuncan, Dayton
Summary: The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the 20th century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019.2019.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 781.642 DUNDuncan, Dayton.
Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DUNGlancy, Diane
Summary: "In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue shipfinally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turtle Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAGlancy, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GLALawson, Nancy
Summary: "From Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener, an insightful and personal exploration of the vibrant web of nature outside our back door-where animals and plants perceive and communicate using marvelous sensory capabilities we are only beginning to understand"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.8 LAWLawson, Nancy
Summary: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 LAWYancey, Diane
Summary: "Approximately 20 percent of Americans have had a sexually transmitted infection. This timely and informative book outlines symptoms, treatment, and risk reduction practices for common STIs in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.95 YANWilson, Sandy
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BOYSwanson, Diane
Contents: Insects -- Bodies -- Exoskeletons -- Spiracles -- Legs -- Wings -- Mouthparts -- Eyes -- Antennae -- Hair -- Signals -- Eggs -- Metamorphosis -- Colors -- Shapes -- Weapons -- Size -- Success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 595.7 SWASwanson, Diane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walrus Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals SwansonWILSON, NANCY.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL WILTuckerman, Nancy
Summary: Advice geared to contemporary living on correct behavior in a wide variety of situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395 TUCBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRUSummary: "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