Dilts, Brenna Stevenson
Summary: Everyone knows that a woman's place is in the kitchen. Brenna Stevenson Dilts knew it too. In rural small-town Michigan, that was life: mom in the kitchen, dad at work, brother out hunting. If life had gone according to plan, she'd never have questioned it. But life did not go according to plan. As a teen, Dilts' world was upended when her father's ALS diagnosis sent her mother back to work....
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILTS, BRENNA STEVENSON DILSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Go behind the Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWESummary: Writer/detective Jessica Fletcher continues to follow the clues to uncover the truth, both at home in the charming town of Cabot Cove and on her many travels. With incredible guest stars and plot twists that leave viewers wanting more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Mu 4Dionne, E. J.
Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIOMiller, Brenda Rhodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.86 MILBrand Miller, Janette
Summary: "The low GI (Glycemic Index) nutrition approach ... ranks foods based on how quickly they raise your blood-sugar levels ... low-GI foods satisfy your hunger, increase your energy levels, and eliminate your desire to eat more than you should."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOOSummary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IVOSummary: "In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King at point blank range. Unraveling this tragedy from point of impact, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as the aftermath"--Movie Web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shapeshifter 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VALSummary: "[This program] looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller 'Silent Spring' to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EARBrende, Eric.
Summary: The author and his spouse spent 18 months in Amish country living without electricity and its dependent technologies. Here he recounts the experience, not only detailing the daily activities and frequent difficulties they found necessary to maintain existence without electricity, but also touting the benefits of such a life and exploring the culture of their adopted community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 BRESummary: An unprecedented array of never-before-seen footage of Gould, photographs, and excerpts from his private home recordings and diaries, plus personal interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some who have never spoken about him publicly before, to reconstruct his thoughts on music, art, society, love, and life. An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GENAiles, Roger
Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVNILES, BLAIR
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1946
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NILBenda, Camille
Summary: "Dressing the Resistance' explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Archetectural Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.0086 BENChallis, Myles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ward Lock 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 CHASummary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STEFiles, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words FilesBader, Myles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northstar Pub. Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.64 BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6423 BADJiles, Paulette
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 JIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 JIL
Biles, Simone
Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BILSummary: "A landmark documentary ... Captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door slesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALMilles, Harriet.
Summary: This book looks at Japanese, and examines where it is spoken, who speaks it, what alphabet the language is written in, and other interesting facts including introductions on how to say key phrases in Japanese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012