Summary: Exposes how corporations spent millions on a propaganda campaign to distort Americans' view of lawsuits, forever changing the civil justice system. From the infamous case of the woman who sued McDonalds over spilled coffee to the saga of the Mississippi Supreme Court Justice deemed 'not corporate enough' by business interests, this program tears apart the conventional wisdom about 'frivolous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOTSummary: "Beginner's Weight Loss Transformation uses weights and body resistance to perfect form for optimal weight loss and muscle-toning performance. Trainer Bob leads through each dynamic movement to activate all muscle groups, keeping in constant motion for a maximum cardio-heightening, fat-blasting workout. Learn how to engage the core from start to finish, and compress each muscle movement for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watch It Now Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 BobSummary: The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CENSummary: The next generation of Tae Bo and Boot Camp workouts. Based on fan input the workouts will be more cardio-intensive and have higher production value.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: 613.7 DVDRipley's Believe It or Not
Summary: Provides bizarre yet true facts about sports, including a gravy wrestling championship, Spanish bull-leaping, the world's fastest inline skater, and the world sword-swallowing championship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 030 EXTThunderbirds Are Now!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ThundÁlvarez, Noé
Summary: "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALVAREZ, NOE ALVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALVAREZ ALVSummary: Cleopatra Thea Philopator was a woman no man could resist: strong, beautiful, and intelligent, she knew how to manipulate the patriarchal political system of Ancient Egypt to work in her favor. In many ways she seemed to have it all, so what could have driven her to take her own life at such a young age? From her noble birth to her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CLENoe, Fred.
Summary: An insider's look at the Jim Beam brand, from a 7th generation Master Distiller Written by the 7th generation Beam family member and Master Distiller, Frederick Booker Noe III, Beam, Straight Up is the first book to be written by a Beam, the family behind the 217-year whiskey dynasty and makers of one of the world's best-selling bourbons. This book features family history and the evolution of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Iftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFTSilver, Noa
Summary: Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America. Once there, she is eager to inspire a love of poetry and literature in her diverse but underprivileged students. Her own grandfather—a Holocaust survivor—was a storyteller and teacher who touched the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC SILTishby, Noa
Summary: "A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world-Israel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESummary: "Get inspired--and prepared--for your best life at 50+. Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2024
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Summary: In the spirit of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder, Rick Van Noy journeys out of his suburban home with his children and describes the pleasures of walking in a creek, digging for salamanders, and learning to appreciate vultures. Through these and other "walks to school," the Van Noys discover what nature has to teach and why this matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2083 VANSummary: It follows the story of Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods. While the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn't in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARTSummary: Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PRESummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces a new fashion exhibition with a gala event every year on the first Monday of May. A grand fashion and cultural exhibit fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute, the event is attended by A-list celebrities. The film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the the exhibition "China: Behind the Look Glass," conceived and organized by Met curator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIRSummary: In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STOIftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why western democracies still beckon to those looking to make a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IFTIN, ABDI NOR IFTSummary: Lain is accused of stealing people's secrets and is abandoned by her friends and family only to learn that her virtual self in the Wired is the one causing trouble for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004
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Summary: A discussion of the reasons that plants and animals become extinct and what scientists are doing to prevent it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.9516 BOWSummary: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, the celebration is still racially segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, the director traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, the gowns, the surreal masks, to the enormous paper mache...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009