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African Americans Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Kidnapping victims United States Drama Psychopaths United States Drama Serial murder investigation United States Drama Trump, Donald 1946- United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Drama Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSPeters, Gregory N.
Summary: "Describes the history of the Negro Leagues, the only option for African-American baseball players until the color barrier was broken in the late 1940s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J 796.357 PETSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAIMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Moore, Leonard N.
Summary: "How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 MOOSummary: "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.Banks, L. A.
Summary: "Follow the Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team as they take the fight against evil beyond the Armageddon! The team is still searching for the wounded Anti-Christ while trying to avoid the wrath of Lucifer. Complicating matters, several members of the team are pregnant with the next generation of Warriors of Light, and the darkness wants them and their unborn wiped off the face of the planet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAMGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GETHoock, Holger
Summary: "The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 HOOPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.02 PETMillar, Mark
Summary: "In mid-century America, the world's greatest superheroes face epic threats in public while battling private scandals behind closed doors. Now adapted into a big-budget Netflix Original series, get in on the ground floor with one of the most critically acclaimed superhero series of the past 10 years"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JUPBunn, Cullen
Summary: "Like a bolt from the blue, the original X-Men reunite - like never before! This time, Jean Grey is in charge! Cyclops, Iceman, Angel and Beast follow her into action, bringing mutant criminals to justice and restoring a heroic sheen to their team. But how can they do that when their new mentor is their old mentor's arch-frenemy? That's right - Magneto has joined the original X-Men! And not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 XMESummary: "Actress, humanitarian, film and fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn was undoubtedly one of the greatest legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father, and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 MEISummary: Special agent James West and fellow agent and crackerjack inventor Artemus Gordon team up on a daring assignment to stop legless Dr. Arliss Loveless and his diabolical plot for a Disunited States of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WILPeden, Henry C.
Summary: This book is the winner of the 1993 Norris Harris Award. It was compiled for the purpose of serving as a "one volume research tool" for identifying the patriots, soldiers, seamen, and civil officers from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who served in the Am
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Books 2000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 PEDHegseth, Pete
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. A hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early Progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Contents: Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SEESummary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SILSouza, Pete
Summary: Go behind the scenes of the West Wing--into the Oval Office and Situation Room, aboard Air Force One, and beyond--with #1 bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOUSummary: FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy" he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MANMeier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEISouza, Pete
Summary: As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone else. His years photographing the President gave him an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the unique gravity of the Office of the Presidency -- and the tremendous responsibility that comes with it. His latest collection is a portrait in Presidential contrasts, telling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018