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Bass guitarists United States Biography Beah, Ishmael 1980- Child soldiers Sierra Leone Biography Grateful Dead (Musical group) Interpersonal relations Lesh, Phil 1940- Rock musicians United States Biography Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991- Personal narratives Sierra Leone Social conditions 1961- VietnamSummary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NANPerrine, Stephen.
Summary: Presents a program that works with a reader's body to build lean muscle and burn stubborn belly fat -- in just 27 days! This title includes: the women's health fast-track tone up plan; a guide to the female body in your 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond; and, the 250 best foods for women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 PERSummary: When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? Follow former enemy combatants, Israeli soldiers from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison, who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say enough. The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DISSummary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORIFlea
Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Summary: Profiles Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ADVBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEASteichen, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 STEBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEALesh, Phil
Summary: In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead. Lesh chronicles how the Dead's signature sound emerged, flowed, and swelled to reach millions of devoted fans, from their first gigs at Frenchy's Bikini-A-Go-Go for an audience of three, to the legendary Acid Tests, to packed stadiums around the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 787.87 LeshSeah, Audrey
Summary: "The history of Vietnam is complicated and filled with conflict, and that history has impacted the nation's culture in major ways. Readers explore the relationship between Vietnam's history, geography, and culture in this thoroughly updated look at the Southeast Asian nation. With chapters highlighting economics, arts, religion, language, and the lifestyles of the Vietnamese people, readers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 SEABravo, Reah
Summary: "A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how we unintentionally condone sexual misconduct and other workplace abuses. When Reah Bravo was hired to work on the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's behavior toward women didn't deter her from pursuing a position she felt could launch her career in broadcast journalism. She believed that she would be more than capable of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, KEAH BROLesh, Phil
Summary: The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Lesh first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R & B, country, and rock and roll with an experimental fervor. Now Lesh offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howell Book House 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.70887 BENDuncan, Dayton.
Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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Summary: An overview and closer examination of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Every religion is different, but all religions share chertain core values, traditions and practices. This book looks at those common links and shows how faith connects us rather than divides us.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 200 STESteiger, Brad.
Summary: Do ghosts exist? Real ghosts, restless spirits, and haunted places expertly reports the evidence. More than a collection of true ghost stories, it's a defining work on spirit phenomena written by renowned "ghost-writer" brad steiger-whose resume begins where stephen king's and dean koontz's imaginations end. The culmination of steiger's 50 years of paranormal research, real ghosts is a bold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2003
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Summary: Describes what it was like dining at the table of Winston Churchill during World War II, discussing the good food, fine champagnes, and Cuban cigars that were served alongside arguments, diplomatic insights, and gossip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 STEStocker, Blair
Summary: "In Wise Craft Quilts, celebrated quilt designer and crafter Blair Stocker shares ways to use cherished fabrics to make quilts with more meaning. Each of twenty-one quilts featured here gathers a special collection of fabric, outlines a new technique, and spins a story. By using special fabrics as the starting point for each project -- from a wedding dress to baby's first clothes, worn denim,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 STOHeat Moon, William Least.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 HEABrecher, Erwin.
Summary: Astound your friends! Impress party guests! Annoy your relatives! This book contains 100 science puzzles. It includes answers to each problem that explains a scientific principle in easy-to-understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton 2010