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Theodore Boone 4Summary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRIAlexander, Jake
Summary: A story about a community coming together to save their library, led by one little girl. This inspiring book shows how every child has the power to change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Hoots 2021
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Summary: It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo are bold faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GONSummary: "In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists go to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BPMFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMBlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the world," Mama says. "How will the whole world hear?" Mari wonders. "They'll hear," says Mama, "because love is powerful." Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women's March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer's simple and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRENewson, Rasheed
Summary: "A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC NEWRoper, Jane
Summary: "In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROPGruen, Sara.
Summary: Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but animals she gets--especially the bonobos. Isable feels more comfortable in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRUSmith, April
Summary: Recently returned to the job after a traumatic shooting incident, FBI agent Ana Gray is tapped for an undercover operation in which she is assigned to infiltrate a "family" of domestic terrorists led by the unstable and charismatic Julius Emerson Phelps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISummary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014Benjamin, Ali
Summary: "Life for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility--or so they thought. When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Ethan finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: For ten summers, the extended Seton family met at their country home in New Hampshire, but during the eleventh summer everything changed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Randon House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOHGrisham, John.
Summary: "Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRIHornsby, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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Summary: An agent from the future where all the world's problems have been solved goes back in time to ensure that every disaster throughout history runs its course.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULRobinson, Peter
Summary: "A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ROBSimon, Clea.
Summary: Caught up in her probe into a dangerous new designer drug, reporter Theda Krakow puts her investigation on hold when an animal rights activist, who had been struggling to rescue feral cats on the eve of a ferocious winter storm, is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSmith, April
Summary: FBI agent Ana Grey goes under cover as an animal lover determined to save the wild Mustangs when one of her fellow agents is murdered by FAN (Free Animals Now).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIBenjamin, Ali
Summary: "Life for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility--or so they thought. When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Ethan finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENCatton, Eleanor
Summary: Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CATGruen, Sara.
Summary: When an explosion at the Great Ape Language Lab severely injures scientist Isabel Duncan and releases her special apes, she must connect with her own kind to save her family of apes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010