Summary: Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of China's 8,000 terracotta warriors begins two centuries before the birth of Christ. The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by a monumental army. Since then no one has seen these ancient warriors in their original splendor, brightly painted and fully armed, ready to protect their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHIBecket
Summary: "Anne Rice's cosmology of Vampiredom from Akasha to Zenobia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's. He was captured and sent to a concentration camp where he was ordered to write pro-Nazi propaganda films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRISummary: Go inside and meet the dedicated men and women who are sworn to protect the President at any cost. Get an agent's-eye view of the daily challenges faced through the decades by Secret Service veterans, from keeping tabs on the president's children to dealing with the privacy of the First Family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSHill, Clint.
Summary: Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the lone secret service agent who jumped onto the car after President Kennedy was shot. He recounts his memories of those five days leading up to, and after, that tragic day in November 1963. Told movingly by a man who still wishes he could undo it all, this is a rare and deeply personal look at the assassination that affected the entire world and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.922 HILSummary: Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV PLASummary: This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLASecrest, Meryle
Summary: The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 SECSummary: David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLUSecrest, Meryle
Summary: "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Summary: Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD SECSummary: Life in the extreme. In a fragile world of beauty and hostility, nature finds a way to survive and thrive. Sir David Attenborough explores a planet on the brink of major change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FROSummary: Millions of years ago, incredible forces ripped apart the Earth's crust, creating our seven continents, each with its own distinct climate, its own distinct terrain, and its own unique animal life. From the colorful paradise of South America to the scorching heat of Africa, this showcases the true character of each continent in turn and reveals just how it has shaped all life there.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEVBabylon Bee, LLC
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek guide to the left's intersectional insanity, the writers of the satirical social media site The Babylon Bee teach examine: how to choose pronouns; how to blame everyone else for your problems; how to show the world how wonderful you are; the art of virtue-signaling; the basics of race, gender, and intersectionality; the truth about American history; problematic books and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BABCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BABThe Gingham Apron, LLC
Summary: "The five Iowa farm-raised women of The Gingham Apron use beautiful stories, photographs, and recipes to inspire readers to gather around the table with those in their lives to show the love of Christ, relish moments together, strengthen families, and grow relationships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.54 GatSebree, Chet'la
Summary: Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others--a meditation on desire, race, loss, and survival.--Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive. Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SEBMecosta Area History Book Committee
Summary: Presents a look at the centennial celebration of the Mecosta area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morton Township Library 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 929.377452 MECPerret, Geoffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 PERPerret, Geoffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 PERKehret, Peg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.23 KEHSeckel, Al.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus Publishing Limited 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.148 SECBechet, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1955
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BECSegrest, Mab
Summary: "A look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020