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(Fictitious character) Barrington, Stone Fiction (Fictitious character) Fay, Teddy Fiction Criminal investigation Fiction Intelligence officers Intelligence officers United States Fiction Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 1929-1994 Private investigators Private investigators Fiction Science fiction comic books, strips, etc United StatesSummary: 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 HOWHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOBader, Bonnie
Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALJones, Jacqueline
Summary: "Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 JONJohnson, Jacqueline
Summary: "When Elinor McGrath decided she wanted to be a veterinarian, the world told her no, but she was determined to prove that accepting women wasn't the only change the profession needed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MCGSummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWHill, Clint
Summary: "Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, CLINT HILSummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: "In the rush to redefine the place of black Americans in contemporary society, many radical activists and academics have mounted a campaign to destroy traditional American history and replace it with a politicized version that few would recognize. According to the new radical orthodoxy, the United States was founded as a racist nation--and everything that has happened throughout our history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emancipation Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 REDGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AGHM GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREShea Murphy, Jacqueline
Summary: During the past 30 years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this study of contemporary Native American dancing, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 SHESimon, Carly
Summary: A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SIMON, CARLY SIMSummary: Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland examines the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the wealthy socialite who amassed a world-class collection of modern European and American art. Vreeland does a good job of examining the different sides to Guggenheim's life and cohering them into some sort of whole by the end of this cradle-to-grave account. She was blessed by a stroke of incredible good fortune: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEGBarker, Margaret A.
Summary: Birders know you need the right house to attract the right bird. An entrance hole that's 1/8 inch too big or too small spell trouble, as does a roof that leaks or a floor that doesn't drain. Learn to build safe, species-appropriate houses for your favorite birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.927 BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.927 BARFreeman, Amanda
Summary: "Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 FREWoods, Stuart
Summary: When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. But the world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WOOWoods, Stuart
Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand - or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOWoods, Stuart
Summary: Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise - that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOSummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARWoods, Stuart
Summary: When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOWoods, Stuart
Summary: When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger--and stranger--than he could imagine. The trail of bread crumbs leads to secrets hidden within secrets, evildoers trading in money and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC WOOWoods, Stuart
Summary: "From #1 bestselling author Stuart Woods comes an extraordinary new series starring an old fan favorite: Teddy Fay. When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can provide. and he knows just the right man for the job. Teddy Fay: ex-CIA, master of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016