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Adams, Katrina

Summary: One of professional tennis's Grand Slam Tournaments, the U.S. Open has been described as a fourteen-day Superbowl. This single tennis championship, held annually in New York City, attracts top professionals from around the globe, generates more money than any other sporting event--or any other sport over an entire season--and attracts more than 700,000 attendees and millions of television...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, KATRINA M. ADA

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: This is a dual narrative of Israeli and Palestinian history, where readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. This format reveals surprising juxtapositions and allows readers to consider and process the very different viewpoints and logic of each side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 SID

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Summary: Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether ooky experience.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADD

Summary: The Addams family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADD

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADD

Nammar, Jacob J.

Summary: Autobiography of a boy who grew up in Palestine, endured the Nakba, and ultimately moved to Texas to start a new life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAMMAR, JACOB J. NAM

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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

Sherwin, Martin J.

Summary: Sherwin sets the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War: how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. He gives us a riveting explanation of the crisis itself, while also exploring the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post WWII world....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 SHE

Brookhiser, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 BRO

Brookhiser, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRO

Abrams, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ARB

Summary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Gregory, Paul R.

Summary: "In The Oswalds, Paul Gregory--labeled by Robert Oswald as the 'only' friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his soviet wife Marina--breaks nearly sixty years of silence to reveal how the soul of a killer took shape. Two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile in the student center at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRE

Summary: Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams;...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADA

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADA

Adams, Mark

Summary: A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. He sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 398.23 ADA

Weir, Alison

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEI

Lanctot, Neil

Summary: "By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, The Approaching Storm is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 LAN

Edwards, Harold W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Pub. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.041 AID

O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

Summary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Moloney, Ed

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 MOL

Lev, Elizabeth.

Contents: Prologue: Christmas cannons -- The education of an Amazon -- Childhood's end -- The countess-in-waiting -- Triumphal parade to Rome -- Courtiers and conspiracies -- The Riario dynasty -- The fairest in the realm -- The birth of Athena -- The lean years -- Center stage -- The retort at Ravaldino -- The spoils of war -- Fanning the flames -- Blinded by love -- Avenging fury -- Intrigue and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SFORZA, CATERINA LEV

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