Summary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIR

Summary: Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHO

LaPlantz, Shereen

Summary: Use an array of creative techniques to make books that are so extraordinary they're works of art. The fabulous photo gallery will show the reader some sensational ways to create your own work of art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 686.3 LAP

Orenstein, David

Summary: When Darwin finally published The Origin of Species in 1859, there was no guarantee that the grand theory of natural selection would become one of the most valuable ideas impacting biology and our modernity. It was so controversial that some disapproving scientists, many in the Church, and powerful others worked to stop it from becoming known and accepted. This is the story of Darwin, his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Humanist Press 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 ORE

LaPlantz, Shereen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686.3 LAP

Pavlides, Shereen

Summary: "Through 60 impressive recipes, Shereen shows you that it's possible to make the best food you've ever tasted without depending on frozen, precooked or store-bought ingredients-and without spending all day cooking"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PAV

Abu-Jaber, Diana.

Summary: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 ABU

Hader, Berta

Summary: This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow. Each of the more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations has been painstakingly restored from the Haders' original art stored at the University of Oregon. Game songs, tales of boys and girls, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAD

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

Summary: "'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 ABU

Summary: The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOW

Kalder, Daniel

Summary: "Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genre--Stalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among them--produced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 KAL

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: 329.1 KAL

Loader, Jeff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 Loader

Slader, Erik

Summary: Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 910.9 Slader 2019

Reader, Ted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Key Porter Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5784 REA

Warraich, Haider

Summary: "There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland's classic How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 WAR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ABU

Summary: Collection of interviews with perpertrators, witnesses, and victims regarding the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHO

Jeffrey, Shaker

Summary: Recounts the story of Shaker Jeffrey, a young Yazidi interpreter for the US military in Iraq, and what happened after ISIS sentenced the Yazidi people to extermination. The Yazidis fled to Mount Shingal, where they had no food and no water. Shaker went behind enemy lines, relaying their precise locations to CENTCOM in Washington and even infiltrating their ranks to rescue the taken; but he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFREY, SHAKER JEF

Kander, Jason

Summary: "Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote, and a bold new voice in American politics. In OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Jason Kander writes candidly about his life, from joining the military following...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hatchette Book Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANDER, JASON KAN

Slader, Erik

Summary: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018

McCoy, Shirlee

Summary: "Returning to their hometown isn't something the Bradshaw brothers ever thought they'd do. But a family tragedy has reunited them in Benevolence, Washington--where second chances, reignited dreams, and real love are never far away. Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Ebadi, Shirin

Summary: "For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBADI, SHIRIN EBA