Pitts, Rebecca
Summary: "Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 JACHall, Rebecca
Summary: Dramatizes the story of Christine Chubbuck, the twenty-nine-year-old news reporter who killed herself on live television in 1974.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHRPitts, Leonard.
Summary: "Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITGetts
Contents: Caution -- Pick up the phone -- Halloween -- London -- Purple sky -- Hand on the bible -- Preach -- Spiritual warfare -- Houdini -- Next of kin -- No love -- King -- Slumdog millionaire -- Jess song
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GHEPitts, Christopher
Summary: Lonely Planet Zion Bryce Canyon National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hike the Cable Mountain trail in Zion, ride a horse or mule through Bryce or go swimming or tubing in Zion's Virgin River; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Zion Bryce Canyon National Parks and begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2019
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Summary: "Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.7 PITSummary: Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY TOWPoets
Contents: Now we're thru' -- There are some -- That's the way it's got to be -- I'll cry with the moon -- I am so blue -- I love her still -- Call again -- Some things I can't forget -- Baby don't you do it -- I'll come home -- Wooden spoon -- In your tower
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POESummary: Three stories of women on their way to life-changing crossroads. One is a battered wife fleeing her husband, one is a young woman dealing with feelings of infidelity and the third is a pregnant woman trapped in a relationship she doesn't want.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PERPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PIGPotts, Morgan
Summary: There can be confusion around the appropriate terminology for trans and queer identities, even within the trans community itself. As language is constantly evolving, it can be especially difficult to know what to say. As a thorough A-Z glossary of trans and queer words from 'ace' to 'xe', this dictionary guide will help to dispel the anxiety around using the "wrong" words, while explaining the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 POTSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWContents: I fall to pieces / Natalie Cole -- Why can't he be you / Norah Jones -- Back in baby's arms / Amy Grant -- Crazy / Diana Krall -- Strange / Michelle Branch -- She's got you / Lee Ann Womack -- Leavin' on your mind / k.d. lang -- Walkin' after midnight / Terri Clark -- You're stronger than me / Rebecca Lynn Howard -- Faded love / Patty Griffin -- So wrong / Jessi Alexander -- Sweet dreams (of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY REMSummary: In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STAPotts, Abilene.
Summary: An agnostic dietician who is burned out on dating and wants to adopt befriends a pregnant student, and they must choose what is best for the people they love most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTGreen Day (Musical group)
Contents: American Idiot (Feat. John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Michael Esper, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Christina Sajous, Mary Faber, Tony Vincent, Company) (3:05) -- Jesus Of Suburbia (9:07) -- Holiday (Feat. John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Theo Stockman, Company) (4:07) -- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Feat. John Gallagher Jr., Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stark Sands, Company) (4:22) -- Favorite Son (Feat. Joshua...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2010
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Pitts, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4361 PITPitt, Barrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1977
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORPotts, Jim
Summary: A crime wave swept California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted, raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to death. Law clerk by day, family man by night. In 1982, Jim Potts—a brilliant, idealistic, African American law student—is honored when one of his professors recruits him to assist in writing a death penalty appeal on behalf...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vesuvian Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 POTPotts, Kimberly
Summary: Examines the show's lasting effects on its audience and take readers behind-the-scenes and into the lives of our most beloved characters, all to document why The Brady Bunch was one of the most groundbreaking shows of its time--and why it remains to this day, unforgettable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 POTPotts, Monica
Summary: "Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTTS, MONICA POTPitts, J. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITPitts, Michael W.
Summary: The events of Richard IIIs reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeares most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us. It is the first complete narrative of a project that blended passion, science, luck and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 PITRitts, Edward
Summary: Follows Rosie's hatching, the effects of natural weather in Florida on her, and how she is rescued and reunited with her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2018