Summary: In the 1970s, disco dominated American pop music. Originating in nightclubs that featured record players instead of live bands, disco was a major stylistic departure from rock, and its rise to the top of the music charts signaled a cultural shift that some found threatening. Disco's roots lay in a gay urban subculture, and the artists who created it were largely African American and Latino. In...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV WAR

Harvard, Joe

Summary: "The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than almost any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation, and from the creative input of Andy Warhol to the fine details of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 HAR

Rachlin, Harvey

Summary: "Growing in tandem with each other, pop music and the business of creating and distributing it have become a relationship that defines modern cultural history. This book not only charts the music that we all know and love but also reveals our active participation in its development throughout generations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 RAC

Tweedy, Jeff

Summary: Wilco singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy tells stories about his childhood in Belleville, Illinois; the St. Louis record store, rock clubs, and live-music circuit that sparked his songwriting and performing career; and the Chicago scene that brought it all together. He discusses his collaborators in Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and more; and writes lovingly about his parents, wife Susie, and sons, Spencer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWEEDY, JEFF TWE

Levy, Janice.

Summary: Simple text and color illustrations present the historical background and contemporary celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 LEV SPANISH

Chambers, John

Summary: Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.4 CHA

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: Laurie is now an award-winning TV producer. She is still haunted by her husband's murder. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new 'cold case' series. Revisiting unsolved crimes one at a time, she and her TV crew will gather a victim's friends and family, who have lived under suspicion of guilt for many years. By getting paid to reenact the crime on TV, each...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Bullard, Lisa.

Summary: Explains the history behind the holiday and discusses how it is celebrated.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.07 BUL

Ryan, Jack.

Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYA

Summary: "Explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a common enthusiastic vision to change the world one squeaky-clean song at a time. But its cheery facade...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Vision Productions 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SMI
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SMI

Baer, T. H.

Summary: Volume is the amount of space a liquid takes up in a container. This engaging book takes a look at how to measure volume and why its useful. Whether using the displacement method or simple containers marked with measurements, there are many different ways to measure liquids. Readers will learn to measure volume in both U.S. and International measurements to further their learning and ensure...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516.1 BAE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Number Baer

Cadillac County Genealogical Society

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.5774 WEX

Thornton, Neil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Printer's Devil Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 THO

Summary: Recounts how, on the streets of the Bronx in the summer of 1973, DJ Herc took the percussion breaks from an obscure album by the Incredible Bongo Band and extended them by playing them back to back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAM

Leon, Jesse

Summary: "In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon's childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEON LEO

Summary: A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PIR

Brenner, Michael

Summary: "In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 BRE

Stuever, Hank.

Summary: In "Tinsel," Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4556 STU

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane.

Summary: A young Mexican American from California learns about her heritage and celebrates the holiday with her friends, family, and community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.262 HOY

Summary: Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize 'The Floating Piers,' a project they conceived together many years before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAL

Otto, Carolyn.

Summary: An introduction to the history and traditions surrounding the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.262 OTT

Libbey, Theodore

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.266 LIB

Marillier, Juliet.

Summary: At every full moon in the magical Transylvanian forest, five very different yet very close sisters enter a secret portal leading to a mysterious land, the Other Kingdom.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC MAR

Wenk, Elizabeth

Summary: "The John Muir Trail contains the information you need for hiking or backpacking the route. The comprehensive guide describes the entire passage, with detailed directions as well as UTM coordinates for important junctions, lateral trails, campsites, food-storage boxes, and other points of interest. The book divides the trail into 13 sections, and each section includes an elevation profile and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 JOHN MUIR TRAIL WEN