Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: Adopted by the Newton household's three children, an adorable little St. Bernard puppy grows into 185 pounds of disaster-prone trouble; There's trouble in the heir when Beethoven becomes the proud father of four pups, each one an adorable but mischievous bundle of joy; When two bumbling thieves threaten the safety of his family on vacation, Beethoven sets out to put a bit on the bad guys.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeSummary: GoodFellas: Follows a mid-level gangster over three decades from his Brooklyn neighborhood to his arrest by the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARSummary: ""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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MusicGrant, Kesha
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women's rights movement"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GRACastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASSummary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPIPadnani, Amisha
Summary: This book is inspired by "Overlooked," the New York Times series that celebrates extraordinary women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who changed history. These people staggered us with their bravery, expanded our understanding of the world by innovating, and broke constraints in an unspoken mission to create a better future for others.--Adapted from back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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Summary: A musical amateur that best exemplified true artistry, Lena Hughes was born in Grape Grove Township, Missouri, in 1904. Though she never recorded any 78s and only one LP, Hughes was most influential through her steady performances at various fiddler conventions and folk festivals throughout the Ozarks. Her lack of pretense and her mastery of this repertoire is what define her legendary status.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HUGCooper, Elisha.
Summary: "The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOPER, ELISHA COOCurtis, Catie.
Contents: Soulfully -- I don't cry anymore -- River winding -- Falling silent in the dark -- Heroes -- Forgiveness -- I still want to -- Memphis -- The truth is -- Do unto others -- Larry -- Come to me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Guardian Records 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CURCurtis, Catie.
Contents: You can always be gone (3:04) -- Troubled mind (4:01) -- Radical (3:42) -- Dad's yard (4:24) -- Silhouette (4:17) -- Everybody was dancing (4:25) -- Slave to my belly (3:59) -- The party's over (3:54) -- Crocodile tears (2:52) -- The wolf (3:17) -- Just getting by (4:24) -- Cry fire (3:28).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Guardian 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CURMcAneney, Caitie
Summary: Team Time Machine has another adventure on their hands. They're riding with Paul Revere! Revere famously alerted colonists to approaching British forces at the start of the Revolutionary War. Readers will follow the kids of Team Time Machine and Paul Revere as they ride from Boston to Lexington to save the day. Historical artwork paired with fun facts and an exciting narrative give readers an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 MCABurton, Krista
Summary: "Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost--or possibly gained--by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BURHughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGGoldish, Meish
Summary: From rescuing six baby wild turkeys at the bottom of a storm drain to capturing a ten-foot-long (3-m) boa constrictor slithering through a Florida neighborhood, animal control officers are devoted to protecting animals and ensuring the safety of people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636 GOLFranzen, Trisha
Summary: "Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha Franzen rectifies that oversight with this first scholarly biography of Shaw, a study that illuminates Shaw's oft-ignored early years and challenges existing scholarship on her time in the suffrage...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, HOWARD ANNA FRAKershaw, Alex
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008Langlois, Krista
Summary: "A book for nature lovers, explorers, hikers, armchair travelers or anyone who wants to learn more about our incredible national parks."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2021
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Summary: "A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map--her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARGLE, RACHEL ELIZABETH CARDawson, Keila V.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Beaming Books] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 DAWShammas, Carole.
Contents: Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America -- Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism -- 1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies -- 2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism -- 3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law -- Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism -- 4....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Press 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 ShammasSummary: A suburban Chicago family travels across the United States and encounters a series of disasters; when the Griswolds win a two-week vacation in Europe they have no idea the havoc they will create; the Griswolds have a series of comedic adventures when they spend their family vacation in Las Vegas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011