Jones, Amy Robin
Summary: A biography of the African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune, discussing her role in creating opportunities for African-Americans in education and government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BETSummary: "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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Griffith, Elisabeth
Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRIJonnes, Jill
Summary: Nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four fifths of Americans live in or near cities, surrounded by millions of trees, urban forests containing hundreds of species. Despite the ubiquity and familiarity of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 JONRodriguez, Janel
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 RODChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHATobin, Paul
Summary: "This year as Halloween draws near, strange creatures and weird contraptions start appearing in every lawn in Neighborville. While a Neighborville Halloween tends to be a fun night, with everyone welcome to celebrate in costume, Dr. Zomboss years to find the ancient deed to this holiday in order to turn it into his own Lawn of Doom celebration! With Dr. Zomboss filling everyone's yards with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TOBFoner, Eric
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONSummary: Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 FONFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONJovin, Ellen
Summary: When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 JOVHines, Debbie
Summary: "An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.089 HINJoyner, Chris
Summary: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 JOYRobison, Peter
Summary: "A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation Boeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. It remains a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ROBSummary: In this shocking and sensitive exploratory journey through the thunderstorms of the mind of paranoid-schizophrenic Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer, viewers follow his discordant encounters in the music business. Institutionalized at the age of sixteen after attacking his mother with a knife, Fischer wandered the mean streets of LA singing his unique brand of songs for ten cents a pop to passersby. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MVD Visual 2011
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Summary: "Prefabricated housing is a practical solution since it is faster to build, less expensive than site-built houses, and potentially more energy efficient -- all aspects that are attractive to homeowners. According to manufacturers, they are seeing the trend for house size coming down but with higher quality amenities. Sheri Koones has authored a series of five prefabulous books; this one is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 KOOTobin, Paul
Summary: "Kirby is about to start a new school with three talking primates in tow. Unlike other students, Kirby Steinberg begins her time at Forest Edge school with a speech to the entire student body introducing her unusual entourage that's composed of three talking simians: eggheaded orangutan Chuck; Go-Go the gorilla, who is hungry and tired in equal measure; and spider monkey Knobby, who has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TOBTobin, Paul
Summary: Imps are everywhere, and it seems everyone in Neighborville's been invited to an ice cream cruise . . . except for Nate and Patrice. Is Zomboss trying to keep them from ice cream?! The kids decide to investigate and they discover a giant robotic orange, a mall full of goats that bleat "Brainz!", and a magical flying rose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TOBTobin, Paul
Summary: "This year as Halloween draws near, strange creatures and weird contraptions start appearing in every lawn in Neighborville. While a Neighborville Halloween tends to be a fun night, with everyone welcome to celebrate in costume, Dr. Zomboss years to find the ancient deed to this holiday in order to turn it into his own Lawn of Doom celebration! With Dr. Zomboss filling everyone's yards with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TOBDolin, Eric Jay
Summary: "The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 DOLKleist, Reinhard
Summary: The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days after the fight, Paret, who had directed a homophobic slur at Griffith during the weigh-in, died from his injuries. In Knock Out!, Reinhard Kleist draws a powerful, emotive portrait of a bisexual black athlete who, facing racism and homophobia in 1960s America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 KLEHoxie, Jim
Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020