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Hyde, Anne Farrar

Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYD

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HYD

Summary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Minato, Kanae

Summary: "After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yūko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yūko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIN

Summary: 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 FOY

Hbo Video.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Entertainment 2000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS

Summary: Follows the evolution of Ireland through waves of migration and emigration and highlights the key moments of Irish history from the adoption of Christianity through the Protestant plantation, Great Famine and Partition to the Good Friday Agreement. Ireland is living through a significant period in its cycle of history, as since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement the island has been at peace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 STO

Summary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Kanzer, Jessie Asya

Summary: "Here are forty-seven inspirational pieces that are smart, hip, accessible, and rich with insight; forty-seven bite-sized stories of struggle, triumph, and contemplation based on sharp observations and anecdotes from the author's life. Each chapter begins with a verse from the Tao, followed by anecdotes and observations that give the teachings of Lao Tzu's applicability to contemporary life....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 KAN

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1984

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Summary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004

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

Summary: The heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace as the Clone Wars continue to sweep through the galaxy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STA

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STA RATED PG

Summary: "In 2011 The World health Organization stated, 'The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possibly carcinogenic to humans.' The cell phone industry has vigorously disputed these findings."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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

Summary: Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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

Summary: T.E. Lawrence helped unify the Arab tribes against the Turks during World War I, but he also set in motion a chain of events that even he would be powerless to stop, events that would shape Arab-Western relations for generations to come.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2003

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

Summary: "This dramatic documentary, with full scale battles, elaborate sets, and a large cast, tells the fascinating story of three world powers - England, France and an alliance of Native American nations - whose struggles planted the seeds for the American Revolution. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hader, Berta

Summary: This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow. Each of the more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations has been painstakingly restored from the Haders' original art stored at the University of Oregon. Game songs, tales of boys and girls, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAD

Kander, Jason

Summary: "Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote, and a bold new voice in American politics. In OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Jason Kander writes candidly about his life, from joining the military following...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hatchette Book Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANDER, JASON KAN

Kanfer, Stefan.

Summary: In an insightful portrait of an iconic artist, the author of The Eighth Sin interweaves Marlon Brando's tumultuous personal life with his remarkable acting career as he documents the actor's troubled childhood, stage and film work, self-destructive nature, often contradictory attitude toward his craft, and the tragedies that marked his final years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Large Print Home Library 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRANDO, MARLON KAN

Kanipe, Jeff

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 KAN

Lande, Nathaniel.

Contents: The Revolutionary War -- The War of 1812 -- The Mexican War -- The Civil War -- The Spanish-American War -- World War I -- World War II -- The cold war and the Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4333 LAN

Mineo, Baldassare.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9672 Min

Sanbe, Kei

Summary: "Satoru Fujinuma's power of Revival has sent him eighteen years into his past to relive his middle school days and prevent the death of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki. But even with the advantage of foreknowledge, Satoru finds himself unable to prevent Kayo from becoming a victim yet again. Back in the present, twenty-nine-year-old Satoru is still on the run from the police and no closer to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ERA

Wider, Susan

Summary: "A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAL

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