Lee, Carol Ann.
Summary: A portrait of Anne Frank's father discusses his privileged youth, arranged marriage, experiences in the concentration camp, decision to publish Anne's diary, and relationship with the secret annex's betrayer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 LEESummary: This live-action docu-drama separates fact from fiction as it brings to rousing life the golden age of pirates! Hear the legends and discover the theatrical lore of such feared men and women as Blackbeard, who mixed gunpowder with his rum; Captain William Kidd, the so-called "gentleman pirate"; Captain Morgan, the Welsh buccaneer; Bartholomew Roberts, from whom guard ships fled; Mary Reed and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REASmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIRuiz, Gabriel.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica 1943
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMcKenna, Mark
Summary: "Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy -- the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.899 MCKHering, Marianne.
Summary: Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HeringSummary: They employed a brutality which is staggering by today's standards. A fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic, and truly ruthless leaders, how they came to power and stayed in power, how they treated their subjects, friends and family, demonstrated battlefield leadership and achieved transformations at home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NonFic AContents: Drive -- Sake of the song -- Good while it lasted -- You leave alone -- My friends -- The love that we need -- Love don't let me down -- The magic kid -- Love is so easy -- Jealous moon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARGill, Vince.
Contents: Foolin' around / Harlan Howard, Buck Owens -- Branded man / Merle Haggard -- Together again / Buck Owens -- Bottle let me down / Merle Haggard -- He don't deserve you anymore / Arty Lange, Buck Owens -- I can't be myself / Merle Haggard -- Nobody's fool but yours / Buck Owens -- Holding things together / Bob Trotten, Merle Haggard -- But I do / Tommy Collins -- Fightin' side of me / Merle Haggard.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GILSecret Sisters (Musical group)
Contents: Tennessee me -- Why Baby why -- The one I love is gone -- My heart skips a beat -- Something stupid -- I've gat a feeling -- Do you love an apple -- All about you -- Waste the day -- Why don't you love me -- House of gold.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Republic Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SECMoser, Barry
Summary: "Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MOSER, BARRY MOSAckroyd, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ACKRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNHancock, Wayne.
Contents: Ride -- Low down blues -- Best to be alone -- Get the blues low down -- Deal gone down -- Fair weather blues -- Home with my baby -- Gal from kitchen's field -- Cappuccino boogie -- Any old time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodshot Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HANFlores, Rosie.
Contents: More to offer (3:46) -- Blue highway (2:50) -- West Texas plains (3:42) -- Love and danger (4:22) -- Bandera Highway (4:30) -- Honky tonk moon (3:29) -- Blues keep callin' (2:47) -- His rockin' little angel (2:33) -- Boxcars (5:18) -- Poor girl's town (2:39) -- You tear me up (2:13) -- Don't let our love die (2:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hightone Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FloreSeegers, Doug.
Contents: Angie's Song (3:30) -- Going Down To The River (4:14) -- She (4:36) -- Lonely Drifter's Cry (3:37) -- Hard Working Man (3:29) -- Pour Me (3:43) -- There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight (2:34) -- Memory Lane (3:16) -- Gotta Catch That Train (2:37) -- Burning A Hole In My Pocket (4:01) -- She's In A Rock 'N' Roll Band (3:30) -- Baby Lost Her Way Home Again (2:39).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Rounder 2014
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Withers, Ernest C.
Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WITSummary: James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BERMarkel, Howard
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 MARMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYCanedy, Dana.
Summary: In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fianc,̌ a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KINJohnson, Keyshawn
Summary: The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946. The Forgotten First chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come. More than a year before Jackie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 JOHDiski, Jenny
Summary: In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the cliches and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016