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Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Rodriguez, Janel

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 ROD

Dane, Barbara

Contents: Disc one. I am a weary and lonesome traveler (4:19) -- Way behind the sun (3:51) -- Victim to the blues (2:10) -- Working people's blues (2:47) -- Come by here (5:33) -- It isn't nice (4:08) -- Deportees (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) (5:48) -- I don't want your millions, mister (3:35) -- Ballad of Richard Campos (4:09) -- Join the GI movement (2:22) -- Song of the coat makers (2:53) -- Mill worker...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DAN

Havemeyer, Janie

Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Chinese immigrants.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HAV

Jacks, Janie

Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Summary: "When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men's Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. The Red Pill chronicles Cassie Jaye's journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege." -- Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RED

Hendrix, Janie

Summary: "This comprehensive visual celebration includes ... an extensive biography of Jimi's remarkable life and career. Additionally, a trove of photographs, vintage memorabilia, and handwritten lyrics, as well as quotes by legendary musicians ... underscore Jimi's inspiring legacy and lasting influence"--Insert.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Chroma 2022

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Kane, Andrea

Summary: Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich's Hofbrühaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger for the length of a drink. Drink finished, Lauren leaves--only to be snatched from the streets and thrown into an unmarked van. In a globe-spanning chase, from the beer halls of Germany, to the tech gardens of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bonnie Meadow Publishing LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAN

Duncan, Arne

Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUN

Herbert, Brian

Summary: "Set in the years leading up the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Dune-which inspired the upcoming feature film from Legendary Pictures- DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets. * Meanwhile, a violent coup is planned by the son of Emperor Elrood; an eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HER

Herbert, Brian

Summary: Duncan Idaho follows a beacon to escape the hunt; Baron Harkonnen and the Reverend Mother make an agreement; Padot Kynes helps some Fremen and visits one of their sietches; Leto explores Ix and overhears a dangerous secret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HER

Bade, 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 BAD

Herbert, Brian

Summary: "Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim meets with Baron Harkonnen; Duncan Idaho is sent on another hunt and becomes a hunter; Leto Atreides meets Prince Rhombur and begins exploring Ix

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 0000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AND/HER

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Reynoso, Naibe

Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REY
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 920 REY

Summary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIN

Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane

Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZ

Summary: 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 GRE

Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOM

Kurtz, Jane.

Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008

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Blount, Jake

Contents: The Psalms of the Sentinel. Take me to the water/Prayer (3:38) ; The downward road (3:36) ; Didn't it rain (3:05) ; Tangle eye blues (3:51) -- The Psalms of the Gravedigger. Parable (2:20) ; Death have mercy (2:59) ; City called Heaven (4:52) ; They are waiting for me (4:27) -- The Psalms of the Teacher. Psalms (2:54) ; Just as well to get ready, you got to die (3:08) ; Give up the world (4:09)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BLO

Maddox, Jake

Summary: Recently resettled in America, Adnan Zakaria is a Syrian refugee whose skateboarding ability is the only thing that allows him to make a connection with the other kids in his neighborhood--but when his skateboard disappears and turns up in the possession of a local troublemaker Adnan will have to out-skate his foe in order to win it back.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

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Shapiro, Dani

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Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, DANI SHA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Shapiro

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