Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 DEEDeem, James M.
Summary: Discusses the discoveries of various human remains at glacier sites around the world, including that of a 5,000 year-old mummy in the Italian Alps, sacrificed Inca children in the Andes, and climber George Mallory, a member of the 1924 expedition on Mount Everest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.9 DEESummary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOBeer, Amy-Jane.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of muskrats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.35 BEEBeer, Amy-Jane.
Summary: Presents an introduction to the physical characteristics and habits of gazelles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.6469 BEEBeer, Amy-Jane.
Summary: Presents an introduction to the physical characteristics and habits of zebras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.6657 BEESummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDPeete, Holly Robinson
Summary: Teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and RJ Peete discuss what it is like for RJ as a teenager with autism and Ryan as a teenager with an autistic sibling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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Summary: Tells the story of rap musician Lil Peep, from the beginning of his career to his death of a drug overdose at the age of twenty-one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2020
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.132 WOOBeer, Amy-Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.9322 BEEBeer, Amy-Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.33 BEEBeer, Amy-Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.366 BEESummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMBest, James D.
Summary: "Sometimes the past refuses to remain sealed off from the present. In Old Haunts, Steve Dancy must deal with villains and locales from his early days exploring the Wild West. Years have gone by since violence was necessary to resolve problems, but his calm routines and growing family are shaken by dishonest characters intruding on his easy life. When Steve and his friend Jeff Sharp go to visit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BESJanes, Patricia
Summary: "Introduces the reader to tigers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: A laugh-out-loud real-life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams and...his parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MEE
Rodriguez, Janel
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 RODHanes, 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