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Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc United States Culture conflict Fiction Families Graphic novels Sales personnel United States Drama Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Drama Terrorism Fiction United States United States Foreign relations Soviet Union DramaOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Leth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETHale, Nathan
Summary: "The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Follow a 10-year-old urban revolutionary, Huey, and his hip-hop obsessed little brother, Riley, as they move to the suburbs with their unwise old granddad, Robert Freeman. In this quiet neighborhood, the laughs, pop culture and pretensions, from Martin Luther King to Chicken flu, from Santa Claus to bullying, no taboo is left untouched. Includes a compilation CD "The Boondocks: Music from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOOSummary: In Treatment season three continues to center around Dr. Paul Weston who continues to cope with the after-effects of his recent divorce, as well as his move to Brooklyn to continue his practice. In the midst of new emotional and physical challenges (including hand tremors he fears might be the onset of Parkinson's Disease, which killed his father), Paul will be treating three new patients, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IN RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREHrbek, Greg.
Summary: "Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being of her beloved baby brother, Dorian, safe in her distant family home. Flash forward to a post-incident America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HRBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HRBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hrbek 2015Schuitema, Adam.
Summary: In a political culture infused with debates about personal liberties, the role of government, and even the definition of "freedom" itself, Haymaker tells the story of an isolated Michigan town that becomes the flashpoint for some of the principal ideological debates of our day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Switchgrass Books, Northern Illinois University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: "Relishing their newfound feelings for each other, Korra and Asami leave the Spirit World, but find nothing in Republic City but political hijinks and human vs. spirit conflict. A pompous developer plans to turn the new spirit portal into an amusement park, potentially severing an already tumultuous connection with the spirits. What's more, the triads have realigned and are in a brutal all-out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGClowes, Daniel
Summary: Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIEOlsen, Brittany Long
Summary: Eleven-year-old Darcy just moved to a new country. She's feeling lost and misses her friends back home. That's when she stumbles upon a shop full of mysterious glowing jars labeled with things like "Picking up the last sweater on the rack and it's on sale" and "Having the perfect weather on your wedding day." Much to Darcy's surprise-this store sells happy feelings. After Darcy accidentally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OLS (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Brown, Sharon Garlough
Summary: "In this sequel to Shades of Light, Katherine Rhodes finds her own grief tapped by Wren Crawford's struggles with depression and loss. Katherine reflects on the meaning of Christ's suffering and shares her own story of finding hope, while Wren moves forward in her commitment to paint the stations of the cross. Readers are invited into a similar journey of reflection through Katherine's words...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLandau, A. J.
Summary: "In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLil Miss Hot Mess
Summary: Drag queens sing verses of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their fabulousness by singing, posing, and twirling along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLESummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022