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 NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUReich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REISummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSanders, Julio.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Calumet Music Co. 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMShea, Therese
Summary: American landmarks sometimes evoke more than their original intent. For example, the Statue of Liberty was a gift symbolizing the friendship between France and the United States, but it became a welcoming monument to millions of immigrants heading to Ellis Island. This beautifully designed book offers numerous intriguing facts about American landmarks, including the Washington Monument, Statue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SHEAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTHanby, Benjamin Russel
Summary: An illustrated version of the well-known Christmas song about Santa filling all the boys' and girls' stockings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ideals Children's Books, a division of Worthy Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAN BOARD BOOKThermes, Jennifer
Summary: "A Place Called America takes the long view of the land's history from its earliest formation and inhabitants up through today. Meet those indigenous to the deserts, prairies, forests, and shores of the land called Turtle Island and their relatives who contributed to World War II and whose ideas founded the basis of the Constitution. Meet immigrant communities, who came to the land from all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 THEShea, Therese.
Summary: Explore the lesser-known details about what makes a Green Beret tick, including the rigorous admissions requirements and top-secret missions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 356.16 SHEFowler, Therese
Summary: Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWShea, Therese
Summary: Describes the events surrounding the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and looks at how it provides structure for the nation's government.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 SHEGiudice, Teresa
Summary: In her second memoir, the Real Housewife chronicles her life since her release from prison and what it's been like to weather difficult times as a single mother. Though she recounts the happy memories she's experienced over the past year, she also touches upon some of the darkest times of her life, including her parents' hospitalizations for severe medical issues in late 2016, which led to her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUIDICE, TERESA GUIEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGSummary: The film brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's twelve year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JULFreedman, Russell
Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.4 FREMoore, Russell
Summary: "Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism. American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 277.308 MOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.308 MOORussell, Leon.
Contents: A song for you -- Lady blue -- Tight rope -- Bluebird -- This masquerade -- Roll away the stone (original version) -- Beware of darkness -- Crystal closet queen -- Delta lady -- Back to the island -- Stranger in a strange land -- Hummingbird (original version) -- Queen of the roller derby -- Of thee I sing -- Streakers' ball -- Roll in my sweet baby's arms -- Magic mirror.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Entertainment Group 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUSStahr, Celia
Summary: "The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHLO, FRIDA STAYang, Kao Kalia
Summary: "A themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 YANRussell, Sheldon
Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSSummary: Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the twentieth century. This is the first major documentary film to explore West₂s life and career, as she 'climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong' to become a writer, performer, and subversive agitator for social change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAEGarstecki, Julia
Summary: "Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living in Colonial America? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--OverDrive website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.2 GARMenéndez, Juliet
Summary: "In this board book adaptation of Latinitas, young readers meet inspiring women from all over Latin America and across the United States. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Juliet Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MENMoberg, Julia.
Summary: Fascinating and sometimes mysterious collection of presidential pets combined with fun poetry and facts about the US presidents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine! Publishing/Charlesbridge 2016