Summary: "This collection of essays and interviews presents 36 contributors to this emerging movement discussing a broad range of topics--activism, healthcare, education, LGBT issues, the environment, to name a few--affecting the political and cultural environmentof future generations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 WESummary: Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930's Harlem at the famed Apollo and Cotton Club. Together again, they're dancing to standing ovations and sharing stories of the Harlem Renaissance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEEPelly, Jenn
Summary: The Raincoats were not the most famous band of late 70s London punk, nor were they the most critically acclaimed. But the peculiar charms of this pioneering feminist punk band helped bolster the iconic Rough Trade label at its radical beginnings. The brilliantly anti-commercial Raincoats is one of our earliest documents of D.I.Y. as an aesthetic-timeless spiritual music for Riot Grrrls, indie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 PELWeiss, Lynne
Summary: In graphic novel format, retells the adventures of Odysseus as he tries to return home after the Trojan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEIWeiss, Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Pub. Co. 1992
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Summary: Presents the story of Perseus and Medusa, includes historical background.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEIWeller, Theresa Lynn
Summary: "This book tells a story of the Native and Metis inhabitants of Mackinac Island based on the people (mostly women) enumerated in the Agatha Biddle Band of 1870. Theresa Weller provides a genealogy of the Band members and their families. Adding to their stories, she has provided images, stories, and newspaper accounts to provide a larger picture of people in a time and place-Mackinac Island in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 WELKelly, Lynne
Summary: In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 KELKelly, Lynne
Summary: Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.1 KELKelly, Lynne
Summary: ""Yet again I was screaming in the night" is the opening sentence in this book. The author decided to deliberately overcome her fear of spiders by observing and studying them, and learning as much as she could about them. As well as being an authoritative book on spiders this book is a personal account of how the author came to love them; and how any other arachnophobe can do the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85225 KELWeiss, Dara-Lynn.
Summary: For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother's unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss's daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how can a woman with her own food and body issues--not to mention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 209.2 FYNSummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEEFynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FYNBeeby, Betty.
Summary: Tells the story of the author's childhood visit to her great-grandmother's picnic table workshop in Eastport, Michigan near Grand Traverse Bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B. Beeby 2004
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket BEESegal, Marilyn M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newmarket Press 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The time of the cuckoo / by Arthur Laurents -- Bernardine / by Mary Chase -- Dial "M" for murder / by Frederick Knott -- The climate of Eden / by Moss Hart -- The love of four colonels / by Peter Ustinov -- The crucible / by Arthur Miller -- The emperor's clothes / by George Tabori -- Picnic / by William Inge -- Wonderful town / book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; music by Leonard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESVan Laan, Nancy.
Summary: Shingebiss the duck bravely challenges the Winter Maker and manages to find enough food to survive a long, harsh winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 VANLSummary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC FORWard, Lynd
Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARWard, Lynd
Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARMaestro, Betsy.
Summary: Presents the story of immigration. Includes important dates and facts about immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996