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Jacobs, Ann Blumenthal.

Summary: You'll find great advice on: Transforming dating from a drag to a delight, revealing your history and hopes for the future, blending friends, family and kids, creating a home together, dollars and common sense for grown-ups , and your wedding, your way...and much more!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Summary: As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--political, social, religious--Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEWIS, C.S. JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Contents: Introduction -- 1. Worlds of reading -- Sentences -- A commonplace book -- Robert Alter's fidelity -- A religion for atheists -- Bran flakes and harmless drudges -- On the recent publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works -- The poet's prose -- The brightest heaven of invention -- Opportunity costs -- The youngest brother's tale -- 2. Signs and wonders -- Reading the signs -- The secret...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9338 JAC

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)

Summary: "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John S....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, HARRIET JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Summary: Traces the life of the twentieth-century Christian literary master, drawing on themes from the Narnia series to offer insight into Lewis's experiences, from his work as a medieval scholar to his role as a beloved children's book author.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 LEWIS, C. S. JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Summary: "In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.8 JAC

Jacobs, Alan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2004

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Dunbar, Erica Armstrong

Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.72 DUN

Lewis, J. Patrick

Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEW

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

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

Williams, Yohuru

Summary: "Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 WIL

Summary: From acclaimed Chicago filmmaking collective Kartemquin Films comes a collection of three important labor stories of the 1970's. These films not only allowed the workers and their union to tell their compelling stories but they also affected the course of events for each union. -- container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006

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

Kelley, Kitty

Summary: Recounts Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, describing the hardships and triumphs King encountered along his journey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017

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

Jacobs

Summary: "Jacobs was a Civil War-era slave who was brutally murdered. In the present day, the author meets Jacobs's ghost and learns the story of his life as a slave, a runaway, and a vagrant in nineteenth-century America"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., Inc. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 DEW

Contents: v. 1. 1831-1850.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1989

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744

Summary: An osprey soars over a small saltmarsh at the delta of the Connecticut River. From somewhere along the east coast of South America, he has just flown 4,000 miles to the place that is imprinted on his memory since birth, the saltmarsh where he will rejoin his mate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEA

Jacobs, James Ripley

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorn Books 1969

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Harris, Duchess.

Summary: John Lewis is an influential African American politician who played a key role in the civil rights movement. He raised awareness of racial discrimination and violence in the 1960s. This book explores Lewis's activism and political career. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEWIS HAR

Wittenstein, Barry

Summary: "The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019

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

Blumenthal, Eileen

Summary: Presents full-color and black-and-white illustrated photographs and drawings depicting the history of puppetry throughout human history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2005

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.53 BLU

Blumenthal, Sidney

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 BLU

Blumenthal, Brett

Summary: "Small changes work. In this practical book, wellness expert Brett Blumenthal reveals how to hone in on the mind as the foundation of overall health and well-being. She presents one small, achievable change every week--from developing music appreciation to eating brain-boosting foods, practicing mono-tasking, incorporating play, and more. The accumulation of these lifestyle changes ultimately...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind Blumenthal

Blumenthal, Heston

Summary: Well, it's full of Heston's typically brilliant, delicious and inventive recipes, including green gazpacho, beetroot and pea salad, quinoa with vegetables, Moroccan pasties, hemp panna cotta, banana and parsley smoothie, tomato and coffee muffins, parsnip granola, rice ice cream, sherry vinegar posset, cricket ketchup and thyme and orange kombucha, not forgetting popcorn chicken with real...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BLU

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