Summary: Examines immigration policy under both the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of zero tolerance, and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEPWatson, Doc.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WATSummary: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HE RATED PG-13Summary: The powerful documentary examines the life of Muhammad Ali beyond the boxing ring to offer a personal perspective on the American sporting legend. Investigating Ali's spiritual transformation includes his conversion to Islam, resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and humanitarian work. The documentary connects Ali's transcendent life story to America' struggles with race, religion, and war in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRISummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LINWatson, William Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Conference 1961
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 280.4 Watson Vol. 2Summary: Collects three stories featuring Disney characters, including "Minnie-rella," in which Minnie falls asleep after doing a lot of hard work and is transformed into Minnie-rella.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LOTSummary: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5" -- a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CEN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CEN
Patterson, James
Summary: A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2018Summary: From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together cinema verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUNBrown, Carron
Summary: Watch as astronauts blast off into space with this beautifully illustrated book. By simply holding the book up to the light, or shining a torch behind each page, young readers will be able to discover how astronauts work, eat and exercise on a space station, and will delight in following a crew from lift-off to touch-down. The innovative see-through feature fulfills a similar function to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPANISH BROSummary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEEKuh, Patric
Summary: "An award-winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine and a former restaurant cook profiles the major figures in the so-called artisanal food movement who brought exceptional taste back to food and inspired chefs and restaurateurs to redefine and rethink the way we eat,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 KUHPetran, Tabitha.
Contents: From empire to colony: Mount Lebanon and Grand Liban -- The early years: independence and the national pact -- The beginning of nationalism(s) and the emergence of political parties -- The Shehab experiment: the failure of reform -- The forgotten south: Israel and the Palestinians -- Winds of change: the emergence of a sociopolitical opposition -- 1970: the tide turns -- The gathering storm:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Monthly Review Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 PETSummary: An unearthly child: Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they follow student Susan Foreman home to an odd police box in a junkyard and meet the Doctor, a strange old man who claims to be Susan's grandfather, who takes them on a short excursion back to 200,000 B.C. ; The Daleks: When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly dead planet Skaro, the Doctor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCScholastic Inc
Summary: In this series, based on the popular children's books, two new claymation characters Spyler and CeCe lead children on delightful search and find adventures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD ISPScholastic Inc
Summary: Join Spyler and CeCe as they take you on searching adventures in the bright and busy world of I Spy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD ISPBrown, Carron
Summary: Desde los autos, los autobuses y las bicicletas que van por las calles, hasta los museos, los restaurantes y lost teatros llenos de gente. Las páginas de este libro te invitan a descubrir muchos lugares de una ciudad llena de actividad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BROPaton, Alan.
Summary: Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPlaymore, Inc
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Playmore 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PlaymCapron, Janet.
Summary: New York City, 1971, a balmy August evening: Just seven blocks from her childhood home, a young woman walks into a Park Avenue apartment and into the troubled arms of her first trick. So begins Blue Money- a mostly true account of life in New York's gritty downtown scene- and an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of prostitution in the lawless era before AIDS and the War on Drugs. Janet quickly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Unamed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPPayton, Geoffrey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. & C. Merriam Co. 1970