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: "Find out more than you ever thought possible about creatures both cute and weird, large and small, while discovering new stories about human history from the perspective of our animal companions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 WARWarner, Andy
Summary: "In 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world's most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 WARParker, Nancy Winslow.
Summary: Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 1994
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Summary: "The eighth edition of A Pocket Style Manual covers everything you need for college writing - especially researched writing. New step-by-step advice applies to writing assignments in any course. There's also new advice for revision, summary, paraphrase, and quotation. When you add all that great new help to Pocket's tested, trusted grammar and style advice plus more than 300 documentation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Depicts people's opinions and thoughts worldwide on Election Day, 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president. All segments were filmed between 8:00 a.m. EST on November 4, 2008 and 4:00 a.m. EST on November 5, 2008, and were filmed by friends of the producer and submitted to him for editing / compilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bev Pictures 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELESummary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANWalser, David
Summary: Gathers eight traditional stories from Poland, including "The Trumpeter of Kraków" and "The Warsaw Mermaid" that feature dragons, magic, mythical events from Polish history, and the evil witch Baba Jaga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WALWalder, Tracy
Summary: "A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antique Acres Press 1985
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Summary: The creators of the Making It competition series share in-depth instructions for some of the top-selected DIY crafts featured on the show, outlining projects in the genres of woodworking, paper craft and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crafts WelkerSummary: An alien being comes to Earth to colonize its water riches but instead becomes head of a large corporation and is gradually destroyed by the pleasures, the technology and the richness of life on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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Summary: "This is a story about a wisecracker, firecracker, knucklecracking crook named Jack. Jack devises a ploy to rob a bank, with a duck as his unlikely accomplice. This villainous duo bumbles their way through a robbery, in which Jack ends up knocked unconscious, arrested for the crime, and thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the duck makes off like a bandit, escaping with all the dough to live a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books, Inc. 2018
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Summary: Old and new verses for a popular folk song about hunting and capturing an animal--and then letting him go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1974
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 784.4 LANHalber, Deborah.
Summary: In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 HALUllrich, Volker
Summary: "The best-selling author of "Hitler: Ascent" and "Hitler: Downfall" reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun,killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 ULLWilner, Barry.
Summary: In On the Clock, Ken Rappoport and Barry Wilner chronicle the history of the proceedings. The veteran sports writers take you from the first grab bag in 1936, when Philadelphia chose Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago and saw him decline to play in the NFL, to the 2014 draft—considered one of the deepest in talent ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 WILWilser, Jeff
Summary: Structured around key moments in Biden's life and career--and filled with Biden-isms like "That's a bunch of malarkey" and "I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid"--this blend of biography, advice, and humor will reveal the experiences that forged Joe Biden, and the lessons we can use in our own lives. Along the way, readers will also encounter fun sidebars on his love of muscle cars, his most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDEN, JOE WILSummary: The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label's beginnings to 1972.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC STASummary: Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca face threats from Darth Vader and Black Sun leader Xizor as they try to stop Boba Fett from handing Han Solo over to Jabba the Hutt; Luke Skywalker tracks a human-droid who is trying to get in touch with her humanity; and the Emperor's assassin carries out her last mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2010
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Summary: "Around the world, our ancient ancestors' mysterious art is left behind on cave walls, in rain forests, and with ink made from charcoal and crushed clay. These people told their stories in magnificent drawings that still speak to us today, echoing across generations. In her own stunning artwork that features the deserts of North America to the caves of Papua New Guinea, Hannah Salyer showcases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023