Kendi, Ibram X.
Summary: We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it. Readers will follow a young Kendi as he learns (and unlearns) lessons that help shape his understanding racism. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America. Even more fundamentally, it points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. He asks us to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 KENSummary: The education continues during Felicity's junior year. Keri Russell returns to the University for a new course of self-discovery. Her big decision to move in with Ben shapes the direction of the school year, but it's just one of the many exhilarating challenges in a spectacular season of passion, heartache and excitement in the city. Includes all 17 episodes of the third season plus bonus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FELSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. How to be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children's book author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA 305.8 KENSummary: Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCAbrams, Dan
Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABRSummary: An avid fan of the actor, and owner of a replica of McQueen's car in the classic film Bullitt, Pastor Greg Laurie hits the road in his mint Mustang, traveling the country in search of the true, untold story of McQueen's redemption-filled final chapters, in a true faith journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STELustgarten, Abrahm
Summary: "An overview of how climate change will reshape the United States, with an emphasis on climate migration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With the Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies! And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit! It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VICAbrams, Jeanne E.
Summary: How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first First Ladies--Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison--had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ARBMurphy, Steve (Steven E.)
Summary: The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 MURSteil, Benn
Summary: "From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE is a milestone in Stevie Wonder's career and a masterwork of American popular music. Released in 1976, this double LP spent 14 of its 80 charting weeks at number one.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Wonder 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WONSummary: Selected, annotated and produced by Stephen Wade, the 30 tracks on this release were all recorded during 1933 and 1946. There are recordings from Kentucky, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TREStern, Jane.
Summary: "In this memoir, Jane and Michael Stern tell what it's like to eat everywhere across the U.S.A. Driving more than three million miles, eating twelve meals a day, they discover not only the pleasure of biscuits and gravy and cherry pie a la mode, but also a world of cooks, customers, and fellow roadfood devotees for whom good food is one of life's essentials."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 394.1 STESummary: For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY POLAbramson, Marcia
Summary: "Everyone knows the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. But did you know that it took until July 9th for General George Washington to get his hands on it? Explore the extreme history of our nation's birth certificate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 ABRScheve, Kenneth F.
Summary: In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens--and their answers may surprise you.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 337 SCHCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Amazing Rick (2:52) -- Love potion 9-9-9 (1:36) -- Three little wives of Newt (2:05) -- Osama and the sea (3:58) -- You can't hide this Biden guy (3:18) -- Help me fake it to the right (1:41) -- Candidates' hello (1:51) -- Midnight ride of Paul, revised (3:15) -- Don't go fakin' you're smart (2:40) -- If I tax a rich man (3:18) -- Occupy Wall Street Journal (4:18) -- Itsy bitsy teeny Weiner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPSummary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCANew York (State)
Summary: An index of claims presented to the State of New York for payment for military clothing and equipment provided by individuals who volunteered, or were drafted by the Governor for service in the Militia during the war with Great Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 IndexKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: ""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.80 KENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult KendiStept, Sam H.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc. 1949