Starr, Douglas P.

Summary: With high drama and stunning detail, relates the infamous crime and punishment of French serial killer Joseph Vacher, interweaving the story of how Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, Emile Fourquet and colleagues developed forensic science as we know it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2010

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Keller, Shana

Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020

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Field, Cynthia R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993

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Murray, Stuart A. P.

Summary: Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished--while the treasures they housed evolved from early stone tablets, to beautifully illumined vellum, and to the mass-produced, bound paper books and the digital formats of our present day. This book opens doors to the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009

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Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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Sears, Stephen W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage Pub. Co. : book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster 1975

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Summary: A handbook written by the fictional captain William Lubber describes what life was like for pirates in the 1800s, including the duties of the crew, weapons and tools, kinds of ships, where they sailed, punishments, and famous real pirates.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008

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Starr, Paul

Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017

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Starr, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1990

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Summary: In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2018

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Summary: The "geologic staircase" of the Southwest includes the Bryce Canyon, Zion, Glen Canyon, Monument Valley and Grand Canyon National Parks. A rugged, arid region, encompassing parts of Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau is home to these geographically close, but utterly unique, landmarks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rugged Land 2003

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Douglass, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999

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Summary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Starr, Dwaine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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Starr, Michael

Contents: Introduction -- Every word he said was funny -- The funniest dishwasher on this earth -- Redd Foxx looked better on a marquee -- I gave it to them funky -- The king of the party records -- It's not easy out there -- Los Angeles is a rotten town for nightlife -- Sanford and son -- The godfather of sitcom -- The way it is, I'm still in slavery -- A cross between Disneyland and a circus -- Like...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2011

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Summary: Exposes the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, with a number of species facing imminent extinction. This poignant documentary explores the wonder of these tiny globe-trekking marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Storr, Will

Summary: Who would we be without stories? Stories mold who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. There have been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020

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Stahr, Celia

Summary: "The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Flaming Stars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Ockenga, Starr.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2001

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