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Mitchell, John Hanson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1984

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.44 MIT

Mitchell, John Hanson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 MIT

Mitchell, John Hanson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.3 MIT

Jackson, Mitchell S.

Summary: With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MITCHELL JAC

Jackson, Mitchell S.

Summary: "Equal parts stunning, photo-rich lookbook, and cultural commentary, Fly is the story of the extraordinary intersection of high fashion and basketball. Each chapter explores the style of an era and the cultural influences that shaped it: The league's inception in 1949, pre-Civil Rights Movement, when the NBA was mostly comprised of white players who wore suits and skinny ties. The years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2023

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 391.4 JAC

Jackson, Lauren Michele

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "This book provides a cultural, political, and social survey through the most American of pastimes that continues to thrive today. With narrative, accessible criticism, research, and popular cultural touchstones we can all recognize, I'd like to introducereaders to the black presence that holds up daily life as they know it. It is a crucial account of the people, stories, and culture that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 JAC

Summary: A look at the history and legends of ancient Ireland. Begins in 2000 B.C., when Stone Age farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments in Europe, and continues through 1167 A.D, when the Norman invasion placed Ireland under English control.

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 IN

Summary: Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas),...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ECH

Summary: A documentary film about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, starring Jodorowsky's own 12-year-old son, as well as Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali with music by Pink Floyd; film includes interviews with Jodorowsky and others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC JOD

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Hanson, Jason

Summary: "When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life. In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 HAN

Hanson, Jason

Summary: Reveals high-stakes techniques and survival tactics from intelligence officers who have employed the same measures in life-or-death situations throughout the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 HAN

Michell, Marti.

Summary: Includes tips and tricks, detailed instructions for cutting with the large and small Kaleido-Rulers [Item# 7977 & 7976], full-size patterns, and how-to’s for making 14+ quilts in a variety of styles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michell Marketing, Inc. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 MIC

Summary: Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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

Summary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUI

Michell, Tom.

Summary: "Whether as rugby team mascot or assistant swimming coach, the penguin known as Juan Salvador touches and transforms everyone he encounters, including Tom Michell, the young teacher who finds him and rescues him from an oil spill disaster. After a time, Juan Salvador (meaning "the saved one") receives a new name: Juan Salvado, or "the savior." Set against the turbulent world of political unrest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MICHELL MIC

Gaddis, Jayson

Summary: "The fastest way to indestructible relationships is to become good at working through conflict, together. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our familyor our job, all connected to our security and survival. So we do just about anything not to lose those relationships, including avoid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Go Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 GAD

Summary: Tap World is an award-winning feature-length documentary starring the most cutting-edge tap dancers from across the globe. Brought to you by the Executive Producers of the highly acclaimed short film, Tap Heat, this documentary follows leaders of the art form who are shaping the community around them. Their personal stories of inspiration, struggle, and triumph are keeping this art form alive...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2015

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

Johnson, Javon

Summary: "Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JOH

Wason, Betty

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1969

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 WAS

Summary: Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2012

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

Summary: Reba McEntire sings the Broadway role of Nellie Forbush in the stage production of South Pacific accompanied by Broadway and Hollywood icons Brian Stokes Mitchell as the French planter Emile de Becque, and Alec Baldwin as wise-guy sailor Luther Bills.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Co. 2006

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2 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SOU

Contents: disc 1. Broke (79:00) / director, Billy Corben ; 9.79 (79:00) / director, Daniel Gordon -- disc 2. There's no place like home (59:00) / directors, Maura Mandt and Josh Swade ; Benji (77:00) / directors, Coodie and Chike ; Ghosts of Ole Miss (51:00) / director, Fritz Mitchell -- disc 3. You don't know Bo (76:00) / director, Michael Bonfiglio ; Survive and advance (101:00) / director, Jonathan...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Aaron, Jason.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC AAR

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