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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIOSnyder, Scott
Summary: "Batman's city is burning. In the months since Commissioner Jim Gordon fell from grace, criminal empires have risen. Martial law has been declared. Arkham Asylum has been emptied. Bruce Wayne has been bankrupted. And Gotham City has been torn apart. Batman and his allies have fought their way up the food chain and put down a slew of madmen and masterminds. Yet each hard-earned victory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LINSummary: Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, historians, and military veterans, scour the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for and recover the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans who have been missing in action since World War II. They aim to deliver closure, solace, and kinship to MIA families who have gone generations without answers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOSummary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LINSummary: With over 12,500 locations listed across the United States and Canada, the new Good Sam RV Travel & Savings Guide is the only print edition of RV parks and campgrounds in North America. Includes 2,100+ Good Sam Parks, RV travel articles and lifestyle tips. Good Sam's exclusive RV park ratings help travelers decide where to stay, and the state and provincial maps -- indicating Good Sam discount...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Sam Enterprises, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.94 GOOGailey, Sarah
Summary: "In the first arc of WILLOWVERSE, trying to help Buffy heal from her trauma proves to be more than Giles and Willow bargained for! She's left without her powers or identity, and it's up to an unprepared and inexperienced new Slayer to take up the mantle--Willow. But thankfully Willow isn't alone, as the spell also leads to another newly-activated Slayer, serving as a guide for this speed-run of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAMSummary: Viewers will follow the scientists planning and monitoring the deflection of hazardous near Earth objects and the real-life procedures in place in the event of an asteroid collision with the earth. From the SETI Institute and NASA to the White House and United Nations, viewers will meet the people who are responsible for protecting the planet from a potentially devastating asteroid impact.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DISChapman, Sandra Bond.
Summary: One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve readers' brainpower for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 CHASummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWWoog, Adam
Summary: Discusses children's book author Roald Dahl including his childhood, his time spent in the military, his marriages and children, his books and screenplays, and the film and stage versions of his books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DAHL WOOWoog, Adam
Summary: Describes the invention and development of YouTube. The book begins with a brief history of video sharing on the Web and then goes on to discuss the three young men who came up with the idea for YouTube after working together at PayPal, and what getting the start-up off the ground entailed. Details of how the site works (and makes money) are explained, as are questions of copyright and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.7 WOOWoog, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.53 WOOArchambeau, Shellye
Summary: "Full of empowering wisdom from one of high tech's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for readers of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from theauthor's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 ARCSullenberger, Chesley
Summary: Presents conversations with men and women from such fields as medicine, education, sports, the military, and finance who embody the truest sense of moral courage and leadership by personal example.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 SULNoor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NOOSheeler, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.8 SHEScheller, Stuart
Summary: A combat-decorated Marine officer, Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout. As the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, came to light he stood up for the American service members, demanding accountability for the hasty and ill-planned exit that cost thousands of lives. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knox Press, an imprint of Permuted Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 SCHSmalley, Greg.
Summary: Every couple who wants a happy marriage will appreciate the revitalizing secrets in Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage. In it, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley explore the traits of a healthy and thriving marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 SmaTygielski, Shelly
Summary: Shelly Tygielski shows that self-care can be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action. She shares her evolution from a Jerusalem-born child of traditional Sephardic Jewish parents to a middle-class American suburban youth who questioned her faith to a young executive in corporate America. As she used radical self-care practices to manage a serious chronic health issue, she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.2 TYGTygielski, Shelly
Summary: "A combination of memoir, manifesto, and how-to guide that shows how mindfulness can be a powerful tool for spurring collective action"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2021
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Summary: A new cross-genre collection that engages historical and personal explorations of gender and self. Aligned with queer theories of temporality, fragments of memoir rub against the language of psychiatric and medical regimes at the site of a body that does not conform to a gender binary. Some Animal draws out dream-like and supernatural resonances between the literature of pathology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SHISullenberger, Chesley
Summary: Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on the essential qualities--leadership, responsibility and service--that he believes have been vital to his success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009