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Conflicting worlds Criterion collection ; 1082 Everyman's library Women in the WestSummary: Employing a mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in his work, the transformative filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SIGSummary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALDionne, Evette
Summary: "In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty- nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIONNE, EVETTE DIOSummary: In sharing their stories, uses every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing to reveal long-buried secrets. Spanning the globe, the series compiles family trees that trace throughout the United States and Canada; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Germany, Poland, Ireland, Russia, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: Presents the story of Marion Cloete, who left a life of privelage in Johannesburg, South Africa, to open an orphanage that has provided for more than 550 children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANGGeer, Donne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 704 GEEAdler, Margot.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.Mifflin, Margot
Summary: "Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers anddissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 MIFRosenberg, Margot.
Summary: Offers instructions for maintaining and repairing old books, discussing general cleaning principles, hazards against which books should be protected, and how to house and handle books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.84 ROSDionne, Evette
Summary: Describes a history of the role of African American women as a significant force in the suffrage movement and their efforts to be accepted as equal partners by their fellow activists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 DIOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 DIOFord, Dionne
Summary: "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, DIONNE FORMorrell, Margot.
Summary: Lessons in being an effective leader in any field or activity, based on the leadership principles used by Sir Ernest Shackleton from 1914-1916 to preserve himself and the lives of his crew as they were stranded on an Arctic ice flow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4012 MORGuralnick, Margot
Summary: "Low-impact living is about making thoughtful, eco-friendly choices in your home. But being sustainable doesn't have to mean sacrificing style. That's where Remodelista comes in. In this comprehensive guide, they decode the secrets to creating a home that's good for the planet-and totally livable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Mifflin, Margot
Summary: Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.004 OATMAN, OLIVE ANN MIFDonne, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONDionne, E. J
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America's future for the 2020 presidentialelection. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 DIODionne, E. J
Summary: Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 DIODIONNE, JOE
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 811 DIODionne, Karen
Summary: "Two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIOSearcey, Dionne
Summary: "In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEARCEY, DIONNE SEADonne, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONBRETON, MARCOS
Summary: Examines the story of Latin baseball as seen through the eyes of Miguel Tejada, a promising young Dominican shortstop in the Oakland A's organization; and provides insight into the efforts of Latin ballplayers to succeed in America's professional sports arena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SIMON 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BREBlanton, DeAnne
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BLADivine, Mark.
Summary: Ex-Navy Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train the mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014