Summary: A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CLECarter, Arlan.
Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CARBreihan, Tom
Summary: A narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of twenty pivotal hits at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which began in 1958, reveals a remarkably fluid and connected story of music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 BREAnderson, Dorian
Summary: "At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs, and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, DORIAN ANDBaker, Brynn.
Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Tuskegee Airmen and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BAKSummary: A deep dive into the life of Stewart Brand, a legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism. Brand created the revolutionary do-it-yourself publication The Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs famously called ₃Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google existed.₄
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEBrill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRILindsey, Brink
Summary: Economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between efficiency and equity-that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. This idea is what makes our current predicament so puzzling: today we are faced with both a stagnating economy and sky-high inequality. Both problems have many causes, but Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles argue that one cause-state action to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 LINMartin, Bogan & the Armstrongs
Contents: Yes pappy yes (3:08) -- In the bottom (4:15) -- Marie (4:01) -- Ice cream freezer blues (3:56) -- That old gang of mine (4:05) -- Jamaica farewell (2:36) -- I'd do most anything for you (2:13) -- Nagging woman blues (4:37) -- Sheik of Araby (2:45) -- Streets of old Chicago (3:56) -- Let's give a party (3:32) -- Chinatown (3:36) -- Do you call that a buddy (4:42) -- They cut down the old pine...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MARVonder Brink, Tracy
Summary: "Who decides if laws are fair? What does the Supreme Court do? Young Americans will find the answers in this early civics book that will help them understand how their country works"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seahorse Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 347.73 VONRumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to James K. Polk including his early political career and key events from Polk's administration, including the Oregon Treaty, the Mexican War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POLRumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAYBreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 BERWilson, Brian
Summary: The memoirs of the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys offer insights into his difficult relationship with his father, the women in his life, his parenting experiences, and the events that inspired his music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 WILSON, BRIAN WILBurgan, Michael
Summary: You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUBurgan, Michael
Summary: "Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! This edition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.473 BURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.473 BURHall, Adrian.
Summary: The most successful band to come out of the San Francisco rock scene in the 1960s, the Grateful Dead continue to delight generations of "Dead Heads" with the unique sound and style. The story of the Grateful Dead explores how the Dead came to inspire the enthusiastic following they have enjoyed for nearly three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Longmeadow Press 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 HALBurrough, Bryan
Summary: An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BURKilmeade, Brian
Summary: This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.47 KILStevenson, Bryan
Summary: "In this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed bestselling Just Mercy, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so," Bryan Stevenson delves deep into the broken U.S. justice system, detailing from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most rejected and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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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/HERVonder Brink, Tracy
Summary: "What is the executive branch? What does it do? Young Americans will find the answers in this early civics book that will help them understand how their country works"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seahorse Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 351.73 VONBryant, Jen
Summary: Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013