Summary: Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment 1997
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OUTMoloney, Mick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 MOLSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDMoloney, Ed
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 MOLMoloney, Ed
Summary: "On condition that their stories be kept secret until after their deaths, two key paramilitary leaders on opposite sides of Northern Ireland's troubles spilled the bloody secrets of their long and violent war"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2010
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Summary: "Did you ever wonder which animals are the biggest... and the smallest? Mammals can be found in all shapes and sizes. Did you know a bumblebee bat is the same size as a large bee? Or, that a blue whale is the largest animal on the planet? What do these animals look like and where do they live? Look inside to discover which of the ten mammals in this book are very small and which ones are really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J599 MALMoroney, Tracey.
Summary: Little Rabbit feels lonely but he learns everyone feels that way sometimes. He learns it is a good time to listen to his feeling and work things out for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Mile Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB MORAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIMaloney, Brenna
Summary: "Fish can be found in all shapes and sizes! Did you know there is a type of angler fish that is less than a quarter of an inch big? Or, that a whale shark is as large as a school bus? What do these animals look like and where do they live? Look inside to discover which of the ten fish in this book are very small and which ones are really big!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J597 MAL1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J597 MAL
Maloney, Brenna.
Summary: Stitch up a sweet and silly sock critter tonight!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Publishing 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liturgical Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 ButlerShipton, Alyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SHIStavans, Ilan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 STAMooney, Nan
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.4 MOOMoroney, Tracey.
Summary: Little Rabbit knows that feeling loved is very special.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Mile Press 0000
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Summary: A little rabbit knows how it feels to be sad and just what to do to feel better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Mile Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB MORAmeri, Anan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AMECarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CARAlyan, Hala
Summary: A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017