Summary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIZSewall, Samuel
Summary: This typical town history covers all the usual subjects from the initial grant of the territory to Charlestown, through the initial settlements, the Indian Wars, the subsequent growth of the town, the Revolutionary War, etc.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books, Inc. 1990
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 974.4 SEW Vol. 1Call number: R-GEN 974.4 SEW Vol. 2
Moyn, Samuel
Summary: "A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 MOYRaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the events of the American Revolutionary War and explains the significance of the war today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a young girl, a patriot fighter, and a loyalist determined to keep America under British rule"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOURaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, A Capstone Imprint 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 RAURaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both the British and American sides"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 RAUWoolley, Samuel
Summary: "Despite all the attention paid to it, the problem of online disinformation is only getting worse. Social media may well play a role in the 2020 presidential election and other major political events. But that doesn't begin to describe what future propaganda will look like. As Samuel Woolley shows, we will soon be navigating new technologies such as human-like automated voice systems, machine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 WOOSandel, Michael J.
Summary: "A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 SANBaez, Joan.
Contents: Man smart, woman smarter -- I never will marry -- Barbara Allen -- Silver dagger -- Fennario -- Oh freedom -- With God on our side -- A song for David -- The night they drove old Dixie down -- Carry it on -- I pity the poor immigrant (duet with Bob Dylan) -- Diamonds and rust -- Love song to a stranger -- Day after tomorrow -- Jerusalem.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie/American Masters 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BAESamuel, Lawrence R.
Summary: "Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.100973 SAMBade, Rachael
Summary: "A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive--and only--insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front lines covering them for the Washington Post and Politico" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 BADBaez, Joan.
Contents: Scarlet ribbons -- Jimmy Brown -- Careless love -- Auctioneer -- Black is the color -- John Hardy -- We are crossing Jordan River -- John Riley -- Silver dagger -- House of the rising sun -- Low down chariot -- Wagoner's lad -- Last night I had the strangest dream -- Geordie -- What have they done to the rain -- Troubled and I don't know why -- With God on our side -- We shall overcome -- Go...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BAESummary: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNSummary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANBausum, Ann.
Summary: Ann Bausum's riveting exploration of the Stonewall riots and the national Gay Rights movement that followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 307 BAUBaez, Joan
Summary: Baez performs the modern folk songs of contemporary musicians, such as Tom Waits, Josh Ritter, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Anohni.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BAEBaez, Joan
Contents: (Ain't gonna let nobody) Turn me around / Trad., arr. Baez (2:50) -- Blessed are / Joan Baez (2:52) -- Suzanne / Leonard Cohen (4:22) -- Love song to a stranger, part II / Joan Baez (4:42) -- I shall be released (2:12) ; Blowin' in the wind (2:36) / Bob Dylan -- Stewball / Rinzler, Yellin, Herald (4:33) -- Natalia / Asa, Apps, Moore (3:54) -- The ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti / Baez, Marricone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BAEDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 GWYBair, Deirdre
Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAISummary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTSummary: 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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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREThapar, Amul Roger
Summary: "For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the 'cruelest justice,' a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the man and the jurist, Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Every day, Americans go to court. Invoking the Constitution, they fight for their homes, for a better education for their children, and to save their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.732 THASummary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004