Summary: This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists, comedians, and more to explore a variety of cosmic topics, colliding pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life and the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASeth
Contents: "The story presented here was originally serialized in issues ten through fifteen of the comic book series, Palookaville."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SETMcCarty, Meredith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Pub. Group 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 MCCBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABesh, John.
Summary: From organizing your kitchen and stocking your pantry to demystifying fish cookery, John Besh shares his favorite recipes he cooks with his family every day. Master recipes Risotto of Almost Anything and Creamy Any Vegetable Soup show you how to make the food without worrying about having the right ingredients or mastering complicated techniques. Filled with mouthwatering photographs of each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5973 BESMcCarty, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Reilly 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.446 LINUX MCCMcCarty, Celia
Summary: "Some observers describe video games as modern art museums that contain visual works, performance art, and audio. Highly skilled athletes, craftspeople, and technicians in the game industry work hard to entertain us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 794.8 MCCBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEANiCarthy, Ginny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1982
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEABekh, Olena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder Education 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 491.79 UKRPerez, Beto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellness Central 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Fit PerezNiCarthy, Ginny
Contents: Safety plan for you and your family -- Introduction -- Emotional safety plan -- Why does abuse go on? -- Is it ever right to break up the family? -- What do you owe yourself? -- "But I still love him" -- To leave or to stay : how to decide -- Getting help from professionals -- You can be your own counselor -- A courageous act a day -- Steps to finding friends -- Reaching out -- The first week...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom NiCarthyMcCarter, Jeremy
Summary: "What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCNICARTHY, GINNY
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Publisher / Publication Date: SEALA 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 NICWhite, Betz.
Summary: By its nature, do-it-yourself sewing is environmentally friendly. In Sewing Green, Betz White takes stitching to an even higher level of sustainability, presenting 25 projects made from organic cloth and 'repurposed' thrift-store and back-of-the-closet finds and organic fabrics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.4 WHIMcCarty, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE MCCBorgeson, Bet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORMcLarty, Ron.
Summary: Taking a three-month stint as a playwright-in-residence at Colorado's Creedemore Historical Society, bumbling writer Steven Kearney is commissioned to write a play based on the town's history, but his efforts are complicated by a local land dispute.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLBorgeson, Bet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 BORMcCarry, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 MCCMcCarty, Jennifer Hooper.
Summary: Applies cutting-edge forensic technology to the mystery of why the Titanic sank, analyzing how the ship was designed and constructed, discussing its vulnerabilities, and exploring the events of the night it sank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2008