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Constitutional law United States Dog owners Psychology Honda automobile Maintenance and repair Handbooks, manuals, etc Human-animal relationships Lardner, Ring 1885-1933 One-person shows (Performing arts) Political questions and judicial power United States Psychology United States. Supreme Court. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975Summary: On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOVLithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITSneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
Summary: Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SNEMeijer, Hendrik G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 MEIBreyer, Stephen G.
Summary: Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BREBreyer, Stephen G.
Summary: "Americans increasingly believe the Supreme Court is a political body in disguise. But Justice Stephen Breyer disagrees. Arguing that judges are committed to their oath to do impartial justice, Breyer aims to restore trust in the Court. In the absence ofthat trust, he warns, the Court will lose its authority, imperiling our constitutional system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BREClear, Helen G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.G. Clear 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 COMMeijer, Hendrik G.
Summary: The idea that a Senator—Republican or Democrat—would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn’t always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the model of a consensus builder, and the coalitions he spearheaded continue to form the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANDENBERG, ARTHUR MEIBreyer, Stephen G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.029 BREBreyer, Stephen G.
Summary: "In this original, far-reaching and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of SCOTUS in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of public and private activity--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade--obliges the Court to consider and understand circumstances beyond America's borders. At a time when ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 341.0973 BREPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC POWBreyer, Stephen G.
Summary: An analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Explains the historical stories behind such famous American trees as Johnny Appleseed's apple tree, Amelia Earhart's sugar maple, George Washington's tulip poplar, and the Gettysburg Address honey locust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MEYMeyer, G. J.
Summary: Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TUDOR, HOUSE OF MEYMaher, Kevin M. G.
Summary: Covers all U.S. and Canadian models of Honda Civic and del Sol for model years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes North America 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Honda CivicMyers, David G.
Summary: Over the past three decades, millions of students have learned about psychology from textbooks by David G. Myers. To create these books and to satisfy his own endless curiosity about the human mind, Myers monitors the leading journals to discover the most extraordinary new developments in psychological science. How Do We Know Ourselves? is a compendium of the most wondrous verities that Myers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 MYESummary: The all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WRIChester, John (John G.)
Summary: Farmer John and his team work together to save a sick pig who's just given birth to 17 piglets and is unable to care for them in this heartfelt picture book, the first of three depicting stories about the animal, plant, and human life of Apricot Lane Farms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESummary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZELErving, Julius
Summary: With startling honesty and an unmistakable voice, Dr. J is a historic self-portrait of an American legend, Julius "The Doctor" Erving. With his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this cultural icon, few have ever known of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013