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Cocktail hour Criterion collection ; 1128 Okay witch 2 Turner classic movies X-booksKamenetz, Anya
Summary: "An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.43 KAMEnde, Bernice
Summary: Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 51), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farcountry Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ENDE, BERNICE ENDKhan, Hena
Summary: After Zara's bike goes missing, her parents insist on her earning money to pay for it, so she and her friend Naomi turn their red wagon into The Treasure Wagon and try and sell some old knickknacks found in her family's basement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KHAAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Horne, Lena.
Contents: St. Louis blues -- Aunt Hagar blues -- Haunted town - Moanin' low -- You're my thrill -- Mad about the boy -- Ill wind -- I gotta right to sing the blues -- Beale Street blues -- What is this thing called love -- Stormy weather -- Good for nothin' Joe -- As long as I live -- Careless love -- Old fashioned love -- Hesitating blues -- Just squeeze me -- 'Deed I do -- Take love easy -- Whispering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia River Entertainment Group 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL HORSummary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETSelvaratnam, Tanya
Summary: An award-winning filmmaker recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SELVARATNAM, TANYA SELJenkins, Ella
Summary: Throughout sixteen tracks, the woman known as the First Lady of Children's Music offers lessons on counting and the alphabet in multiple languages. Her joyful engagement and delight in music comes across in each performance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV JENSummary: Against the backdrop of a pandemic that is disproportionately killing Black people, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police in 2020 sparked a push for racial justice and calls for change. The film explores the story of Newark, New Jersey which has been undergoing an experiment in police reform for several years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POLPhillips, Maya
Summary: "In the vein of You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms. From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, her childhood changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 PHIMoss, Marissa
Summary: Eager to fight for the North during the Civil War, Sarah Emma Edmonds joins a Michigan infantry regiment. She excels as a soldier, and she even takes on the grueling task of nursing the wounded. Because of her heroism, she is asked to become a spy, cross enemy lines, and infiltrate a Confederate camp. For her first mission, Sarah must once again disguise herself and rely on the kindness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 EDMSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kids celebrate everything from the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to Thomas Jefferson and Harriet Tubman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Price Stern Sloan 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E STOSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROCSteinkellner, Emma
Summary: "Moth Hush is back! Moth is starting to settle into her heritage and powers, but life at school continues to be rough. Even her best friend, Charlie, doesn't entirely understand what it's like for her to always be the one who gets mocked, and things only get worse when Moth's mom starts dating one of the dorkiest teachers in the school! Then Moth gets hold of a mysterious charm that can unleash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: "We have reached a critical tipping point in our fight for the environment: Corporations profit off climate change, natural disasters devastate homes, and the most vulnerable suffer the health effects of pollution. Yet our laws are designed to accommodate this destruction rather than prevent it. Without government support, it's no wonder people feel powerless. But there is a solution. In The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disruption Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 VANWhite, Emma
Summary: "Violet Underground is a sentimental snapshot of a 15-year-old's journey to find independence and adventure. She faces the inescapable trials of self-confidence and sexuality as she fumbles through the beginning stages of her first relationship. Set in New London, Wisconsin in 2010. Based entirely on real events"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emma White 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WHISummary: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counsellor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is the easy part.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOUDorn, Anna
Summary: "In the tradition of How to Murder Your Life, a young woman's witty memoir demystifying law school and lawyers through tales of her own badness, the badness of her peers, and the badness of the law in general"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DORN, ANNA DORProkos, Anna
Summary: "Book introduces the reader to Forensic Science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press/Scholastic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.25 PROQuinn, Anna
Summary: "A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules? After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009