Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: On April 29 and 30 of this year, a variety of artists spanning genres and generations came together with Willie Nelson to celebrate the legend's 90th birthday for a star-studded, once-in-a-lifetime event at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. This two CD+Blu-ray set captures the highlights of this amazing night, including 39 performances across the two CDs and the same songs captured in HD on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OURStrange, Cordelia.
Summary: Discusses water pollution, including how drinking water becomes polluted, how it affects one's health and the environment, and what is being done to prevent it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AlphaHouse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7394 STRStrange, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Tree Press 5000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STRSummary: Two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb, have worked together to create some of the greatest non-fiction books in history. Now 86, Caro is determined to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, wants to edit it. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TURLargo, Michael.
Summary: "A one-of-a-kind treasury of the most strange and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals. Largo tells us their most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing--and often hilarious--fact about their oddest behavior. Largo also looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 LARJefferson, Margo
Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFTrue, Margo.
Summary: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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Summary: "Mel imagines collaborating with other artists in a vibrant community, honing her craft, and becoming an accomplished artist. But it turns out that art school isn't quite the same in real life. Based on the author's experience attending art school in the early 2000s, this funny, heartfelt book will resonate with anyone with a youthful dream--or a DeviantArt account."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 STRTaylor, Saranne
Summary: This fun title explores different kinds of animal homes and how they are built. From a beavers dam to a termites mound, readers will love learning all about animal architects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 TAYCollodi, Carlo
Summary: The adventures of the wooden puppet boy whose nose grew whenever he told a lie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC COLLOD'Este, Carlo
Summary: A biography of Winston Churchill's astonishing military career from his youth through World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON D'EsteLe Strange, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arco Pub. Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.63 LESStringer, Chris
Summary: Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 STRStringer, John
Summary: Information about various topics related to machines, especially those used for transportation, forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 629.04 StrinPrice, Margo
Summary: "Margo Price is from Aledo, in western Illinois; she's a Midwest farmer's daughter who moves to Nashville to become a musician. She waits tables, busks on the street, plays open mics, and talks to her uncle, Bob Fischer, a songwriter for dozens of country music legends. Uncle Bob's advice is to throw away her TV and do nothing but write. So, discouraged but determined, she does. Price writes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRICE, MARGO PRIStrang, James Jesse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.30924 STR1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 STR
Strand, Claudia.
Summary: This book explores all sorts of portraits by artists ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali and teaches young readers how to paint a face, draw a cartoon and create a face-themed collage. Young readers will learn about self-portraits, double portraits and masks, and challenge themselves with quizzes, puzzles, and optical illusions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 704.942 STRCarlo, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 CARRovelli, Carlo
Summary: Traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity. "A closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.14 ROVStrager, Hanne
Summary: "This book delves into our dual nature with orcas, as they are both feared and persecuted, as well as admired and worshiped"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1854
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Caro, Ina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011