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Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOU

Summary: The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIN

Qu, Lei Lei

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4251 QU

Wooldridge, Adrian

Summary: The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented disruption of business over the past five years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 WOO

Eldridge, Roy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1986

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELD

Zub, Jim

Summary: "Ultron hacks into Vision's mind to trick him into rebuilding the metallic menace, and now Ultron's ready to unleash his revenge"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

Aldridge, Rebecca.

Summary: Describes the history of the Hoover Dam and how it was built.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 627.82 ALD

Aldridge, Rebecca.

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the third president of the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JEFFERSON ALD

Zub, Jim

Summary: "Following Ultron's orders, the Vision faces off against the Avengers, but as time passes, he begins to question his creator's plans."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ZUB

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

Zub, Jim

Summary: "Riddled with guilt for rebuilding his creator, the Vision searches for Ultron on his own, which leaves the Avengers to wonder whose side he's really on"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ZUB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

Lem, Stanisław.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 LEM

Loe, Meika

Summary: Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and mostly alone, to understand how they create and maintain meaningful lives for themselves. Meika Loe explores how the very old navigate the practical challenges of living as independently as possible while staying healthy, connected, and comfortable--Book jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 LOE

Aldridge, John

Summary: "In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented search effort that culminated in a rare and exhilarating success" -- dust jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALDRIDGE, JOHN ALD

Klee, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9494 KLE

Lei, Sida

Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEI, SIDA LEI

Zub, Jim

Summary: "The Scarlet Witch, Wonder Man, and the Beast join the Avengers as Ultron alters Ant-Man's mind, which makes him turn his ant army on his friends"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ZUB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

Zub, Jim

Summary: "When an experiment comes back to haunt him, Ant-Man calls upon the Avengers to stop Ultron, but it seems the android has unleashed his own creation - the Vision!"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ZUB

Zub, Jim

Summary: "In the aftermath of Ultron kidnapping Ant-Man and Wasp, can the Avengers figure out what he's up to and save their friends before it's too late?"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ZUB

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC ZUB

Fee, Jacqueline.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 FEE

Leed, Percy

Summary: "David Beckham starred for great soccer teams in England, Spain, and the United States. Off the field, he's one of the biggest superstars in sports. Read about the life of a soccer celebrity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BEC

Mee, Benjamin.

Summary: When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home—a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors—his friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. Mee's dream was to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. The grand reopening was scheduled for spring, but there was much work to be done and none of it easy for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2011

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Clarke, Zee

Summary: This practical guide features thirty-three mindfulness exercises centered on healing for the Black community, each focusing on the systemic challenges that people of color face and designed to deal with the emotions these experiences create.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.8 CLA

Lees, Christoph.

Contents: Preparing for pregnancy -- Your prenatal care -- Your developing baby -- Your changing body -- Staying fit and healthy -- Issues in pregnancy -- Labor and birth -- The first six weeks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 LEE

Mee, Benjamin.

Summary: A former British newspaper columnist describes how he uprooted his family to the English countryside and purchased a dilapidated zoo, home to more than two hundred exotic animals, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money, skeptical staff, family tension, and his wife's devastating illness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 MEE

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