Brettschneider, Corey Lang
Summary: "Landmark cases address the origins of judicial review, racial discrimination, civil rights and liberties, The 14th amendment's Equal Protection Clause, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, and federal government regulatory powers. A recommended classroom resource. A Penguin Classic With the Penguin Liberty series by Penguin Classics, we look to the U.S. Constitution's text and values, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BRENitty Gritty Dirt Band
Contents: Jambalaya (On the bayou) -- Dirt Band interview -- Cosmic cowboy (part 1) -- Aluminum record award -- Fish song -- Mr. Bojangles -- Vassar Clements interview -- Listen to the mockingbird -- The sheik of Araby -- Resign yourself to me -- Dixie hoedown -- Cripple Creek -- The mountain whippoorwill (or, How Hillbilly Jim won the great fiddler's prize) -- Honky tonkin' -- House at Pooh Corner --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NITSummary: In this Fred Friendly Seminar moderated by Harvard Law School's Charles Ogletree, panelists including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; Professor Alan Brinkley, of Columbia University; William Webster, former director of the CIA and FBI; William Bratton, former New York City police commissioner; and others confront the contentious relationship between federal control and states' rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Peterson, Tracie.
Summary: Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PETSummary: Moderated by Harvard Law School's Charles Nesson, this Fred Friendly Seminar focuses on the tension between the President and Congress during a policy crisis in the fictional European country of Nukraine, involving issues such as the power to wage war, conduct diplomacy, and operate in secrecy, as well as the media's responsibilities in matters of national security. Panelists include U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Does the current electoral system undermine the democratic process envisioned by America's founding fathers? This Fred Friendly Seminar, moderated by Stanford Law School's Kathleen Sullivan, delves into the political concerns of the fictional town of New Crossroads. Issues under scrutiny, including campaign finance reform, adherence to campaign platforms, Congressional term limits, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: DIC Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD FSummary: In this Fred Friendly Seminar moderated by Harvard Law School's Arthur Miller, panelists such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU; Jamie Gorelick, of the U.S. Department of Justice; Professor Stephen Carter, of Yale Law School; and others examine the fine balance between the power of the government and the rights of the individual in a fictional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Peacock, Caro
Summary: A series of anonymous letters leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for 19th-century private investigator Liberty Lane. September, 1841. A new arrival has taken London society by storm. Lord Byron's handsome illegitimate son, George, recently arrived from the exotic island of Cephalonia in the company of his guardian, the mysterious Mr Vickery, has been setting female hearts aflutter. But not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPeacock, Caro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme De La Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAHay, Sam
Summary: Young penguins Jackson, also known as Secret Agent 00Zero, and his inventor-friend, Quigley, investigate who is stealing rare fish from the Rookeryville aquarium, hoping to prove themselves to the Frosty Bureau of Investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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Summary: "Young penguins Jackson and Quigley, code-named Secret Agent 00Zero and Special Agent Q, compete in the Golden Egg Games while also seeking a criminal who escaped from the Frosty Bureau of Investigation."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAYHay, Sam
Summary: Jackson, code-named Secret Agent 00Zero, and his inventor-friend, Quigley, both penguins, must prove Uncle Bryn is innocent of robbery before the Frosty Bureau of Investigation locks him away forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019
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Summary: When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PeterSummary: "Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50countries for a week-long seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 PENDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICJackson, Shirley
Summary: Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features an afterword by Jonathan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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Contents: Craining -- The Somme -- Testing -- Aerial fighting -- Home defence -- Overseas again -- Civil flying -- The voyage east -- Teaching the Chinese to fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, CECIL LEWMarx, Karl
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.42 MARMiller, Arthur
Summary: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Summary: If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger, Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in this stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver s love poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Summary: Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to "heteronyms"--alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best known works and several stunning poems that have only come to light in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 861.141 PESSeneca, Lucius Annaeus
Summary: Interesting philosophical ideas written by Seneca. These letters illustrate the ideals admired by the Stoics and reveal how far in advance of his time were many of Seneca's ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xist Publishing 2016
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Steinbeck, John
Contents: Introduction. The twenty-first-century portable Steinbeck by Susan Shillinglaw ; Introduction to the 1971 portable Steinbeck by Pascal Covici, Jr. -- From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums -- From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's -- From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012