Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: Clark Terry, an internationally renowned trumpeter, began his career in the 1940's. He has worked with legendary greats such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. His love of music even crossed over into the education field and is a noted author of books on trumpet techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CLAMax
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MAXSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERRIOT, JAMES WRIVarley, Dax
Summary: In the four months since his mother was taken by demons, Max has been studying and perfecting a means of killing them with a slingshot, witch hazel, and an arcade token with a sunburst emblem--but now other women have been disappearing and finding out what the demons are up to has become a matter of increasing urgency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC VARWright, John C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7089 WRIKing, Rax
Summary: "TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KINMak, Tim
Summary: "A blistering exposae of the National Rifle Association, revealing its people, power, corruption, and ongoing downfall, from acclaimed NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 MAKMak, Geert.
Summary: Journalist Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. In the voices of prominent figures and unknown players, Mak combines the larger story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 MAKWeight Watchers International
Summary: "Really hungry? In a rush? Weight Watchers Cook It Fast has 250 delicious, healthful, quick and easy recipes that will help you put food on the table in thirty minutes or less. Weight WatchersCook It Fast has you covered for every meal of the day--and desserts too! You'll find ideas for *Breakfasts that will get you going* Lunches that can be enjoyed at home or brown-bagged*Robust dinners for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 WEIBright, Anna
Summary: "Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "In a handsome, four-color 250-recipe volume, here is a complete compendium of Weight Watchers®best-ever recipes for America's favorite dinner: chicken Everyone loves chicken, it's delicious, versatile, economical, and perfect for everything from quick weekday dinners to leisurely weekend meals. It's also a go-to ingredient for anyone trying to lose weight. These chicken recipes are loved by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5635 WEIJohnson, Mat.
Summary: "The early 20th Century: an era when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South. To most of the press, this epidemic of racial murder wan't even news. But a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were light-skinned African-American men who could 'pass' for white. They called this dangerous assignment 'going incognegro.' Zane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo, DC Comics 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JohnsonBright, Michael
Summary: Explores the history of human origins, highlighting such early humans as Ardipithecus, Homo habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo erectus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: words & pictures 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 569.9 BRIBright, Michael.
Summary: Introduces the concept of extinction, discussing how extinction occurs, mass extinctions from the Earth's past and possible explanations, extinctions caused by humans, and current efforts to protect the endangered species of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.84 BRIBright,Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIST Publishing 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14 BrighPember, Mat
Summary: The Little Veggie Patch Co. DIY Garden Projects includes thirty-eight hands-on, step-by-step activities that will help cultivate your handiness and get you out in the garden. Chapters include projects for kids, vertical gardening, garden basics, using recycled materials, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2016
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Summary: "A look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 SEGBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESMah, Ann
Summary: Author of Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah is undoubtedly an expert on all things relating to French food. But when she discovered the electric pressure cooker, she realized that it was the secret weapon the French have used for years to speedily prepare the complex dishes of la cuisine de grandmère. In her first cookbook, Ann celebrates everything gastronomically French that an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023