Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESMufleh, Luma
Summary: "Refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MUFJuwayriyah, Umm.
Summary: Iman Johnson, an Muslim American left home a decade ago as a teenager to follow a street hustler who promised her the world. When that world became too much to endure, she returned to her mother's doorstep in Pittsburgh seeking refuge. Will her Muslim family and community welcome her back, or has too much time and too many secrets built up between them? Iman must find the strength to face her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: As Sabr Publications 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUWSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "From the award-winning author of National Parks of the USA, Kate Siber, this stunning book showcases an amazing adventure activity to try in every single state. 50 Adventures in the 50 States features gripping outdoors activities, vividly illustrated and described alongside fascinating facts about the nature and geography of each activity location - the very best the U.S.A. has to offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed editions, and imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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Summary: "Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community. It can support reading initiatives, foster family engagement, encourage visit frequency, and coax interaction out of library lurkers-while barely making a dent in your programming budget. Passive programming can be targeted at children, adults, seniors, or teens; used to augment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: OFC 025.5 WILSmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMISummary: Two of the most distinctive vocalists in modern music have finally put the finishing touches on their new collaborative album, which has a whole new sound due to their entirely different traditions.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PLAPoitier, Sidney.
Summary: Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies on the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. Among his many accolades, he recieved the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award for an outstanding career and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 POITIER, SIDNEY POISummary: The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PATAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ISA SPANISHSummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSmiley, Jess Smart
Summary: "In this first volume of the What Happens Next? graphic novel series, YOU decide if Megan will run the Sunbright Middle School's talent show smoothly ... or right into the ground! Megan Hathaway is in charge of Sunbright Middle School's talent show, and everything is going wrong. Animals are running wild backstage, vice-principal Fisher is out for blood, and Megan's friend Olivia might be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMIPilkey, Dav
Summary: When a new bunch of baddies bust up the town, Dog Man is called into action -- and this time he isn't alone. With a cute kitten and a remarkable robot by his side, our heroes must save the day by joining forces with an unlikely ally: Petey, the World's Most Evil Cat. But can the villainous Petey avoid vengeance and venture into virtue?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, An Imprint of Scholastic 2018
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Summary: Dog Man, the newest hero from the creator of Captain Underpants, is still learning a few tricks of the trade. If only the Chief would throw him a bone every once and a while...Dog Man needs to dry up the drool, dust away the dander, and roll out of the refuse if he's going to impress the Chief, and he needs to do it fast! Petey the cat is out of the bag, and his criminal curiosity is taking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2017
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Summary: A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHANNON, MOLLY SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShannonShannon, Molly
Summary: At age four, Molly Shannon lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident. Held together by her father, she was raised in a house that would allow her to become a renowned comedic actress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZSilver, H. Ward
Summary: Offers a review of the subjects covered in the ARRL licensing exam, along with a pool of questions currently used in the exam and cross-references for answers to specific questions within the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ARRL 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.384 SILSummary: Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONSummary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASNietfeld, Emi
Summary: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022