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Acropolis Americana/Bicentennial series Action heroes African American Library (Series) African American life series America's haunted roadtrip series American heroes American heroes series Columbia contemporary American religion series Journey to freedom Thorndike Press large print African-American seriesSeager, Richard Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 SEAGillis, Chester
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 GILFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTJacques, Geoffrey.
Contents: Saturday night fish fry -- Bursting out all over -- Intrusion -- Sepia-tones footage -- Commercial euphoria -- White supremacy is not eternal -- After midnight -- The present "crisis" -- Stomp -- Mesopotamia -- James Baldwin -- Well you needn't -- The wonderful fantasies of the colonized -- Giant -- The blab of the pave -- Supporting architecture -- Just for a thrill -- Reverie -- Evaluation --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JACKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMoon, Elaine Latzman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOFingeroth, Danny.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superheroes, the X-Men, including information on their creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 IngerForget, Thomas.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Captain America, including information on his creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 ForgeFein, Eric.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superheroes, the Fantastic Four, including information on their creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 791.4 FEIFein, Eric.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, the Incredible Hulk, including information on his creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 Fein,Kupperberg, Paul.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Spider-Man, including information on his creators, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 KuperMoulton, Candy
Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonLakin, Pat.
Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAKContents: Spike heels / by Theresa Rebeck -- Jar the floor / by Cheryl L. West -- The Baltimore waltz / by Paula Vogel -- Unfinished stories / by Sybille Pearson -- What is this everything? / by Patricia Scanlon -- Joined at the head / by Catherine Butterfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WOMBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: "A juvenile biography of the famous Native American woman who helped the Jamestown settlers"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POCDittman, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 DITSummary: Video scenes of steam locomotives and excursion trains set the stage for the fond memories of Americans who lived this bygone era of rail travel. Historic films and photographs capture nostalgic glimpses of small town depots and big-city terminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delaney Communications 1996
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DREColeman, Jon T.
Contents: Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England -- Beasts of lore : how stories turned fearsome monsters into skulking criminals -- Wolf bullets with adders' tongues : how to kill a wolf in colonial New England -- Predator to prey : wolves' journey through the northeastern woodlands -- Surrounded : fear and retribution in the northeastern forests -- Metaphors of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 COLVan Pelt, Lori
Summary: Documents the renowned female aviator's attainment of her pilot's license in her early twenties, her famous Atlantic crossings, her record-setting two-decade career, her tragic disappearance in 1937, and the theories surrounding her fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA VANPattskyn, Helen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clerisy Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 133.1 PATSantella, Andrew.
Contents: The pastor's son -- The education of a leader -- Montgomery -- A national leader -- The final years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINWilliams, Montel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004