Hill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 HILHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In the midst of loss, death, and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means--and how we take steps to get there. The uprising of 2020 marks a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 HILHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HILHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.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 PAULing, Mary.
Summary: Photographs and text depict the habits, diet, and characteristics of several kinds of crocodiles, alligators, turtles, snakes, and lizards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 597.9 LINLing, Mary.
Summary: Simple text and photographs depict the early stages of an owl's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kindersley/Houghton Mifflin,c 1992. 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Nature Ling 1992Ling, Mary.
Summary: Photographs and text depict the growth and development of a calf from the moment it is born through its early stages of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.2 LINSummary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEOSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUMarz, Ron
Summary: The Skylander Trap Team must work together to conquer grueling tests, win outrageous challenges, and defeat the vile villains to receive champion status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARCary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARMarz, Ron
Summary: When the first purple dragon, Malefor reappears Spyro, Hex, and Cynder struggle to prepare for the evil he unleashes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARLeaming, Barbara.
Summary: Recreates Rita's life from medical records, government documents, trial transcripts, movie-lot memoranda, and the testimony of many eyewitnesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYWORTH, RITA LEALaing, Olivia
Summary: Olivia Laing examines the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ArcoLeaming, Barbara.
Summary: A book that explores the seemingly magical world of Jackie Onassis' youth, her fairy-tale marriage to a wealthy and handsome senator and presidential candidate and her astonishing transformation into a deft political wife and unique first lady also explores what the author asserts was Jackie's 31-year struggle with PTSD after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom OnassisLeaming, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENSummary: 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 LOVBorges, Marco
Summary: "Accessible and easy-to-follow, The Greenprint is a movement to embrace your absolute best and healthiest life. Through his more than two decades of experience working with clients, including some of the world's biggest celebrities, and spearheading exercise and nutrition research, Borges developed the groundbreaking "22 Laws of Plants," which he's determined are the most important plant-based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BORLaing, Olivia
Summary: ""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 LAILaing, Olivia
Summary: ""One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of thetwenty- first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 701 LAIFlaming Stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FlamiMarz, Ron
Summary: Collects the latest adventues of Spyro and his friends as they work to stop Kaos and other villains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2018