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Beah, Ishmael 1980- Child soldiers Sierra Leone Biography Grateful Dead (Musical group) High schools Fiction Lesh, Phil 1940- Rock musicians United States Biography Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991- Personal narratives Sierra Leone Social conditions 1961- Teenage girls Fiction United StatesTinari, Leah
Summary: Profiles twenty-four women in American history who inspired, influenced, and impacted history, culture, and society, including Shirley Muldowney, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, and Annie Oakley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 TINSummary: About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MinamataSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUYazbek, David
Summary: With a cast that includes Katrina Lenk and Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub, this musical has become one of the most acclaimed new Broadway productions of 2017. It includes music from three-time Tony Award nominee David Yazbeck.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghostlight 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BANLE1F.
Contents: Hi -- Rage -- Grace Alek Naomi -- Swirl / feat. Junglepussy & House of LaDosha -- Koi -- Umami/Water -- Lisa -- Chops -- Cheap -- Taxi -- Tell / feat. Don Christian -- Change / feat. Dev Hynes & Miss Geri.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BXL/XL Recordings 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP LE1Beah, Ishmael
Summary: "A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABravo, Reah
Summary: "A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how we unintentionally condone sexual misconduct and other workplace abuses. When Reah Bravo was hired to work on the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's behavior toward women didn't deter her from pursuing a position she felt could launch her career in broadcast journalism. She believed that she would be more than capable of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Musical group)
Contents: Rich -- Date with the night -- Man -- Tick -- Black tongue -- Pin -- Cold light -- No no no -- Maps -- Y control -- Modern romance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YEATsemel, Lea
Summary: Profiles Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ADVFlea
Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEA FLEBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABrown, Keah
Summary: Last summer, Andrea Williams spent all her time in bed, recuperating from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. This summer she plans to live it up-- and part of that means falling out of love with her best friend, Hailee. Even if it means dating George, who keeps showing up everywhere. -- adapted from jacket
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROWebb, Kinari
Summary: "A "magnificent, empowering" (Bill McKibben) memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. When Kinari Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Heat Moon, William Least
Summary: "In this novel of haunted love, Silas Fortunato, an amateur astronomer, finds his marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not exist. Enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three women draw him into the equivocal nature of reality and dreams, and lead him on a journey toward something vastly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAHeat Moon, William Least.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 917.3 HEABeak.
Summary: BEAK, formed by Geoff Barrow (Portishead), Matt Williams and Billy Fuller in 2009 recorded their debut album, created out of 12 days of improvised sessions and then edited into song form. Shortly after releasing it on Invada (UK) and Ipecac (US) the band went on a successful tour including festival dates across Europe and the U.S. Buzzing from the tour Beak then returned to the studio to start...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: INVADA 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Beah, Ishmael
Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABrown, Keah
Summary: "From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, KEAH BROLean, Sarah
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEALear, Chris
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 LEALesh, Phil
Summary: The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Lesh first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R & B, country, and rock and roll with an experimental fervor. Now Lesh offers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Leth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023