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Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOUTerry, Jim
Summary: "A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 TERSummary: A visual history of the Jacksons combines exclusive interviews, anecdotes, quotes, and previously unseen family archive photographs to trace their meteoric rise and history-making tours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 JACReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REIThundercloud, Ria
Summary: "In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB THUNDERCLOUD THUChack, Erin
Summary: The Buzzfeed senior editor reflects on the highs and lows of the millennial experience, sharing such stories as escaping a bear attack and her battle with cancer at nineteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHASummary: With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The artist describes his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthouse Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHUPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: "In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PALAHNIUK, CHUCK PALYeager, Chuck
Summary: Wit wisdom from New York Times #1 best-selling author (sold over 1.2 million books), the original badass Right Stuff, fighter ace, test pilot, greatest pilot, a pilot's pilot, a man's man, a woman's man: Chuck Yeager, his favorite wingman, Victoria. Find out why Maverick, the new Top Gun movie, pays homage to Chuck Yeager! Chuck Yeager risked his life to break the sound barrier opening up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit YeagerHenry, Marian S.
Summary: "This book paints a picture of the early settlers of the Genesee Country who were among the first wave of migrants moving westward after the Revolutionary War. Author Marian Henry begins with families enumerated in the 1790 Federal Census and links these first settlers of present-day Steuben County to their eastern origins -- usually New England, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey. The sketches cover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 HenryJamison, Kay R.
Summary: "The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 JAMJacobson, Abbi
Summary: When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one: Why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 JACMeacham, Jon.
Summary: A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANDREW MEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MeachamStine, Megan.
Summary: "Born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, Michael Jackson was definitely not a regular kid. A superstar with The Jackson 5 before he was eight years old, he became the King of Pop as a solo artist. Michael was a creative--yet deeply troubled--genius who always remained devoted to his art right up until his death is 2009 before a much anticipated tour. He had a pitch-perfect voice and footwork...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS. MEDGAR WILHalperin, Ian.
Summary: Delivers new revelations about Michael Jackson's controversial life and legacy: his multiple plastic surgeries, his skin bleaching, his sexual identity, and his potentially fatal genetic condition ... and dispels the popular myths" about the King of Pop. The conclusion was written after "Michael Jackson's died just as this book was going to press."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MICHAEL HALBogle, Donald
Summary: "An eye-opening and unique biography of two larger-than-life legends--Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson--and their unlikely yet enduring friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 BOGMartina, Guido
Summary: Celebrates the spirit of the holidays with this heart-warming adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic ghost story, starring Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
Haidle, Elizabeth
Summary: Brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HAIRamsey, Donovan X.
Summary: "The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today--a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023