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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA B TAKEISummary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYNoble, Allen George
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 NobleGeorge-Allen, Sam
Summary: "A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the "cool girl" or the "catty workplace". Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. In Witches, Sam George-Allen explores how wherever women gather, magic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 GEOSummary: Science fiction tales of derring-do, heroism and romance. Set in the distant past, they relate the adventures of Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo as they battle the forces of the evil Imperial Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Entertainment 2004
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STACopies Available at Peninsula
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Contents: Batman #1, spring 1940 -- The legend of the batman -- who he is and how he came to be! -- (The joker) -- (Professor Hugo Strange and the monsters)-- (The cat) -- The joker returns -- Batman #2, summer 1940 -- (Joker meets catwoman) -- (Wolf, the crime master) -- The case of the clubfoot murders -- The case of the missing link -- Batman #3, fall 1940 -- The strange case of the diabolical puppet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATGeorge, Alice L.
Summary: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a. rocket and soared into space. . . He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLENN, JOHN GEOSummary: In one tale Terry McGinnis hunts a murderer throughout the streets of Neo-Gotham. In another magical adventure, Zatanna and Batman come together every year the two to defeat an evil curse. This year they fail, and the world is in peril because of it. And that's just the beginning of the twists and turns collected in Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 4! --Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. finds out who we are and where we come from.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTBrownridge, Lucy
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From humble beginnings living on a prairie farm, to taking the New York art scene by storm, to living a solitary life in the New Mexican desert, find out how Georgia's extraordinary life unfolded and how each place changed the ways her paintings came out. See how her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 O'KEAdams, Georgie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.9505 ADABaldwin, Alec
Summary: A satirical memoir written in the style of Donald Trump shares lampooning insights into the forty-fifth president's election, disdain for the press, backroom strategy sessions with White House advisers, and world-changing decisions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817 BALRoss, Alec
Summary: "For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the marketconsolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322 ROSWilkinson, Alec
Summary: Documents the dramatic 1897 flight of a visionary Swedish explorer who attempted to discover the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, describing the formidable environmental conditions that challenged his efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WilkinsonWilkinson, Alec
Contents: The blessing of the fleet -- The riverkeeper -- The uncommitted crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILNorwich, Grace.
Summary: I always had big dreams as a child. I created the world of Indiana Jones and Star Wars, two of the most profitable movie franchises in history. I am George Lucas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LUCPosta, Alec
Summary: "In LEGO Build Every Day, Master Model builder Alec Posta show readers how to build their way through problems -- by using LEGO techniques to solve real life challenges. Filled with bite-sized lessons on creativity, perspective, and process, each chapter explores a LEGO concept and follows with a building prompt to put the idea into practice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 620.0011 POSRoss, Alec
Summary: Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what's next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338 ROSRyrie, Alec
Summary: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 RYRSummary: Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 943.086 RAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAPBaldwin, Alec
Summary: The actor highlights parts of his life that he's long kept private, from his troubled childhood and efforts to make it as young actor to his struggles with addiction and his failings as a husband and parent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALDWIN, ALEC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BALDWIN BALBaldwin, Alec.
Summary: One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir.Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading men. From his work in popular movies, including Beetlejuice, Working Girl, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cooler, and Martin...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017