Summary: "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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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUBroderick, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co. 1974
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.63 GREAnscombe, Roderick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANSJoinson, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 775 JOIJoinson, Suzanne.
Summary: Years after photographer William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem with British parks against a backdrop of growing nationalist unrest, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOIBeaton, Roderick
Summary: We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises have convulsed Greece repeatedly since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 BEACave, Roderick
Summary: Each of the 100 books chosen has played a critical role in the development of books in all their forms and with all that they bring: literacy, numeracy, technological progress and the expansion of scientific knowledge, religion, political theory, entertainment, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 CAVJonson, Ben
Summary: This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Paperbacks 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 JonsonSummary: In 1957, Rogosin travelled to South Africa and created a powerfully, moving drama exposing the harsh reality of life under the system apartheid. Filmed secretly under the noses of the feared South African police, Rogosin, his crew, and cast risked arrest and deportation. Miriam Makeba was banned from her country after travelling to Venice for the movie's premiere. The scenes shot in the vibrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMBrodnick, Caitlin
Summary: "After watching too many family members die of cancer, at age 28, public speaker and comedian Caitlin Brodnick was tested for the BRCA1 gene mutation and tested positive, indicating an 87% chance she'd likely be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. She had a preventative double mastectomy, thereby becoming an everywoman's Angelina Jolie. Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up with My Time-Bomb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRODNICK, CAITLIN BROJohnsen, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.7044 JOHJohnsen, Linda
Summary: Covering the long history of how the Hindu religion has developed from its fragmented origins, this is a comprehensive guide to Hindu religion and culture, from karma and reincarnation to dietary habits and the caste system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel JohnsenJohanson, Paula.
Summary: This book describes how processed foods get to the point that they are no longer healthy, natural food and how foods that are deep-fried put extra calories into human bodies that become obese and have health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 642 JOHBeaton, Roderick
Summary: A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MONOwen, Rodrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.42 OwenJonsson, Erik
Summary: "Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness? How - and why - do we get lost at all?" "In this book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.752 JONKnight, JohnTom
Summary: "It's nearly nighttime, but the sun won't set in Xus National Park! Kodi, Summer, and Eddy Skycedar go to Spirit Park to discover why, and learn an important lesson about what it really means to be a hero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green KnightMcFadden, Johnjoe
Summary: "Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham's razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries, taking us from a geocentric cosmos to quantummechanics and DNA, arguing that simplicity has revealed profound answers to the greatest mysteries. This is no coincidence. From the laws that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 MCFMonson, Ander
Summary: Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MONOhlson, Kristin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 255.9 OHLJohnsen, Gregory D.
Summary: A former Fulbright Fellow who studied in Yemen describes the rise and fall of al-Qaeda and how they grew out of their defeat by the United States into one of the most dangerous and threatening groups in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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Summary: "When the truth cost her everything, she thought there was nothing left to lose. Mikayla Gordon loves nothing more than sleeping under the stars, reeling in the "big one," and long hikes in the wilderness. A medical crisis reveals a 30-year-old secret that turns everything she's known and believed upside down, unraveling her dreams and her identity. In search of answers, she follows a trail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: His Image Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Monson 2019Ohlson, Kristin
Summary: Thousands of years of poor farming, ranching, and land practices, especially modern industrial agriculture, have led to the loss of 80 billion tons of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist Kristin Ohlson makes a case for "our great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2014