Summary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXIRobb, J.D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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Summary: Collects three novellas starring Lieutenant Eve Dallas, in which she must attend an off-planet police conference, put an escaped serial killer back in prison, and solve an eighty-five-year-old murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS Robb,Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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Summary: Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952 SOUStruthers, Rebecca
Summary: An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 STRJ.D. Loizeaux Lumber Company
Summary: Unabridged republication of rare plan book published by Loizeaux building-supply and lumber companies of New Jersey in 1927. Illustrations and floor plans for 134 houses in many styles — New England Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Gothic or Half Timber, Modern English, Italian, Spanish Mission and more. Over 230 halftone and line illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athenaeum 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 CLAStruthers, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 747.9 STRSteinberg, Robin
Summary: "How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you've ever done? We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest. But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don't know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Optimism Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 340.092 STESouter, Gillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 SouterHeathcote, Jud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sagamore 1995
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Summary: Since prehistoric times, humans have used the plant life around them to help cure ailments. In more recent times, researchers and scientists have started to reexamine these early folk remedies in hopes of creating more available forms of treatment. Today, more and more people are attracted to pure forms of these folk medicines, while others hope to gain knowledge from them so that new drugs may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 KIDSouter, Gillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 SouterRowling, J.K.
Summary: When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens, the war against Voldemort has begun. The Wizarding world has split down the middle, and as the casualties mount, the effects even spill over onto the Muggles. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods, and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered grievous losses. And yet, as in all wars, life goes on. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, having...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pottermore 2012
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Summary: Documents the life and career of the sixth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World, Inc. 2002
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Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 LEEPotter, J.R.
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Thomas Creeper hasn't been dealt the best hand. He lives in the seaside town of Gloomsbury-a damp and miserable place overrun by scabber weed, where the sun shines for only a few days each year. With the inexplicable death of his older brother, David, Thomas becomes heir to Creeper & Sons, the family's funeral business, and his place as a mortician's apprentice seems set....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fitzroy Books 2021
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Summary: The true story of a car-jacking in New Orleans chronicles the death of a white housewife at the hands of a young black man and the subsequent trials, which gradually reveal a story of passion and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HORPerl, Jed
Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERDavis, Jed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Amato Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.17 DAVHorne, Jed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 HORRasula, Jed
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Summary: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is midway through both his training as a wizard and his coming of age. He wants to get away from the malicious Dursleys and go to the Quidditch World Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about his crush, Cho Chang (and maybe do more than dream). And now that he's gotten the hang of things at Hogwarts—he hopes—he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pottermore 2012