Summary: "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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Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stoddart 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topaz Heart Pub. 2009
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Summary: In the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country's call in its time of need during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knightsbridge Publishing Co. 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland and Stewart 1977
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Summary: Having already killed the entire Marvel Universe, the Merc with a mouth takes aim at the most famous characters in classic literature: Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Tom Sawyer, Scrooge, Gulliver, the Three Musketeers, and Sherlock Holmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DEASummary: Five films and made-for-TV movies by director Alan Clarke, and a postumous documentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1972
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Summary: "A meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: An unprecedented explosion of creativity, insight, and breakthrough occurred in every field of science in the last century. These discoveries profoundly changed the way we understand the world and our place in it. Now physicist and novelist Lightman tells the stories of two dozen of the most seminal discoveries. He paints the intellectual and emotional landscape of each discovery, portrays the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Summary: "Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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Summary: Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic with intuition, questions with answers and questions without. Lightman explores the emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Summary: Meditates on scientific findings that are changing the understanding of the cosmos, exploring such topics as the debate between science and religion, the conflict between the desire for permanence and nature's impermanence, and the ways technology has changed physical experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LINSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Bruce is a grumpy bear who likes no one and nothing but cooked eggs, but when some eggs he was planning to boil hatch and the goslings believe he is their mother, he must try to make the best of the situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meridian 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meridian Creative Group 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0415 LARSummary: One of the most important documents of the AIDS epidemic was filmed in 1986 in the very early years of the crisis. The AIDS (Artists Involved with Death and Survival) Show deals with the impact of the epidemic on the community most affected by the disease -- gay men. This unique work, one of the first films to deal with the subject of AIDS, was based on San Francisco's long-running Theatre...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Journey to the Moon on the Apollo 12 mission with astronaut and artist Alan Bean! As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Introduces such notable mammals as the elephant, sloth, koala, and porcupine, explains what makes them unique, and describes the important characteristics of the entire group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1990
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Summary: "Discover how to achieve your dream home on an affordable budget using these inspiring pictures, practical tips, and easy-to-implement tutorials. Most of us don't live in a dream home that was custom built to suit our tastes. We have to work with a housethat brings its own style, quirks, and personality to the table. But imagine walking into this house, but it's perfectly designed and decorated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2021