Summary: "Explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a common enthusiastic vision to change the world one squeaky-clean song at a time. But its cheery facade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Vision Productions 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SMI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SMI
Weschler, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WESSummary: "This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROMeckler, Laura
Summary: "In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MECStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 STEGury, Al.
Summary: "This guide explores one of the great traditions of Western painting: alla prima, or direct, painting. Bold brushwork and a painterly surface are the hallmarks of this renowned technique, and one of the great masters of alla prima was Arthur DeCosta, the legendary Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts teacher." "In Alla Prima, author Al Gury reveals the step-by-step lessons he learned in his years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751 Gury 2008Garay, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: How Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.1 GARGeary, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25092 HELFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGGeary, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.08 GEAWeschler, Toni
Summary: Offers a natural alternative to ineffective procedures and a biologically proven method of fertility control for avoiding or achieving pregnancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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Summary: The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.5 WESThompson, Gare.
Summary: Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THOMentler, Michael.
Summary: To learn from Michael Mentler is to learn from the many past masters he has studied, absorbed, internalized, and reimagined. Through his work you will learn to create; points, lines, planes, and forms that engage the viewer by leading their eyes in and out of a notional space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Mentler 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.2 MENMettler, Suzanne.
Summary: "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 METTichler, Heleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 BotermansDary, David.
Summary: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US DaryDary, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DARGardy, Jennifer
Summary: "What works all day and night to give you energy and keep you healthy? Your guts, that's what! You probably know that your digestive system (aka your guts) takes everything that you eat and drink, keeps what your body needs, and poops out the rest. But that's not all it does for you! It Takes Guts explores of all the amazing things that happen when we eat and drink: the different tools that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2021
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Summary: Describes the physical traits and behavioral habits of this bird of prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals WechslerMealer, Bryan
Summary: In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEAMeller, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.62 MELMichler, J. Marsha
Summary: Your one-stop source for crazy quilting know-how! From Victorian quilts to contemporary works of art, crazy quilting has evolved into a beautiful mixture of piecing, embroidery, and fabric techniques. Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide tells you everything you need to know to create your own beautiful heirloom crazy quilts, including: •10 different methods for piecing. •More than 100...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KP Craft, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Sew MichlerGaby, Elena
Summary: Explores the use of implantable technology in the human brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2020