Lewis, Norma
Summary: The rich history of the Wolverine State has a serious dark side. In the Detroit area, the Black Legion outdid the Ku Klux Klan in hate but remained secret until one of its leaders was implicated in a murder. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek was equal parts physician and quack. Then there were the state's two self-proclaimed kings--James Jesse Strang, the leader of a Mormon group on Beaver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 364.15 LEWLora, Loris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 782.1 FORSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At the heart of this film is the question of whether Leni Riefenstahl was a Nazi, as her detractors claim, or whether she was the victim of society-- a naive, young woman who made Triumph des Willens on assignment, and simply did a very good job. This film does not judge, and Riefenstahl (a fiesty 90 during production) is genuine in her protest. Or has the passage of 50-plus years simply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WONLewis, Norman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946 LEWSummary: Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RULSummary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TREForma
Contents: Crossings -- Ostinato -- Three/Two -- Rebreather -- Cut-up -- New city -- Ascent
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC FORSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOULevin, Jack E.
Summary: Presents the story of a little boy and his best friend, a white and black-spotted dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LevCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVSummary: Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a devastating plague, "Survivors" explores how humanity would cope in a world stripped of modern technology and comforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SURSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Emmons, Buddy.
Contents: Country boy / Vince Gill featuring Paul Franklin & Tommy White -- That's all it took / Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell featuring Steve Fishell -- Blue jade / Duane Eddy featuring Dan Dugmore -- Are you sure / Willie Nelson -- This cold war with you / JayDee Maness -- Half a mind / John Anderson featuring Buck Reid -- Wild mountain thyme / Greg Leisz -- Rainbows all over your blues / Albert Lee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BIGSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEAJewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Contents: Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum -- The Jewish museum and its history / Joan Rosenbaum -- Museum without walls / Maurice Berger -- The collection of the Jewish Museum -- Memory and history -- Spirituality and faith -- Society and politics -- Portraiture and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Museum 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 595.7 LEVShefi, Naama
Summary: "From Rosh Hashanah and Passover to Hanukkah and weekly shabbat dinners, this joyous celebration of all the Jewish holidays offers a treasury of 130 recipes gathered from 30 influential chefs and food professionals around the globe, whose shared stories illuminate the diversity of the Jewish diaspora and its cuisine. As contributor Mitchell Davis puts it, the meal is the holiday. Whether it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Contents: Disc one. Labyrinth. Origins ; Bull dance ; Ariadne ; Arena (Part 1) ; Arena (Part 2) ; Exultation ; Naxos -- Disc two. Roots. Roots ; Images ; Caliban ; Whapatiti ; Capricorn ; Odokamona ; Southern roots and celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beat Goes On Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARSummary: After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WANG-Eazy
Contents: Disc I: The beautiful & damned / featuring Zoe Nash -- Pray for me -- Him & I / G-Easy & Halsey -- But a dream -- Sober / featuring Charlie Puth -- Legend -- No limit / featuring A$ap Rocky & Cardi B -- The plan -- There's alot -- Pick me up / featuring Anna of the North.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 2017