Summary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARIssa, Islam
Summary: An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962 ISSSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: 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: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMChayes, Sarah
Summary: A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the common role of corruption in today's international uprisings, tracing corruption since the 1990s while arguing that corrupt governments have been largely responsible for extreme acts of rebellion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol ChayesChayes, Sarah
Summary: A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the role played by acute government corruption in fostering violent extremism.--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1 CHAChayes, Sarah
Summary: Presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 CHAHanes, Stephanie.
Summary: "The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western philanthropy: revive the park and tourists would return, a win-win outcome for the environment and the impoverished villagers living in the area. So why did some researchers find the local communities actually getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 HANMayes, Frances.
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYMayes, Frances.
Summary: The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914.04 MAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 MAYHays, Daniel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.6 HAYSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILHawes, Judy.
Summary: Describes how and why fireflies make their light, how to catch and handle them, and several uses for firefly light.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1991
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Summary: The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical country's offerings. In See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband, Ed, eat and drink their way through thirteen regions--from Friuli to Sicily. Along the way, she seeks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.093 MAYHawes, Annie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HAWHawes, Judy.
Summary: A brief study of the first creatures on earth to develop voices and an aversion to dry skin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETAsimov, Isaac
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 ASIAsimov, Isaac
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1981
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASIMOV, ISSAC ASMNewton, Isaac
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 531 NEWAsimov, Isaac
Summary: The six-sun planet Lagash is about to experience night for the first time, as one by one each of its sun eclipses, but neither the scientists who predicted it nor the religious fanatics capitalizing on it foresee the destruction that darkness will bring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIButler, Isaac
Summary: The oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and an exuberant backstage tale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020