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Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. finds out who we are and where we come from.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Warren, Harry

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Leo. Feist Inc. 1942

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Brown, Nacio Herb

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: 1935

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Waller, Douglas C.

Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WAL

Leebaert, Derek

Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)

Summary: During World War One, Ellen La Motte became one of the first American war nurses to volunteer to go to Europe—and she witnessed its horrors firsthand as she worked near the Western front. Her controversial book, which the US banned in 1918, vividly and graphically describes the "backwash of war": the dirty, smelly, lice- and disease-ridden bodies of the wounded French soldiers she cared for....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Conway 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LAM

Miller, Scott

Summary: "Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULLES, ALLEN MIL

Devine, Miranda.

Summary: "The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.934 DEV

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol Devine

Thomas, Evan

Summary: "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 THO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 THO

Summary: Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAS

Tobias, Charles

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: 1933

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Contents: Disc one, Bossa Nova Brasilia. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Joao Gilberto) (2:00) -- Dindi / A.C. Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveira (Sylvia Telles) (2:36) -- One Note Samba / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:20) -- Chega De Saudade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Elizete Cardoso) (3:29) -- A Felicidade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Agostinho Dos Santos) (2:47)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BOS

Turk, Katherine

Summary: In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TUR

Flavell, Julie

Summary: "Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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

Cumming, Alan

Summary: In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUM

Shetterly, Margot Lee

Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space Shetterly

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHE

Frankel, Erin

Summary: "A biography about chef José Andrés, who, through his World Central Kitchen organization, is fulfilling a vision to feed people in need all over the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AND

Reid, Stuart A.

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Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REI

Holler, Dick.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Roznique Music, Inc. 1968

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Simons, Seymour

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Irving Berlin Inc. 1931

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

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

Jackson, Wanda

Contents: Disc one: Daydreamin' (1958): Day Dreaming -- I Wanna Waltz -- Heartbreak Ahead -- Makin' Believe -- Here We Are Again -- Long Tall Sally -- Just Call Me Lonesome -- Let Me Go Lover -- Money Honey -- I Can't Make My Dreams Understand -- Happy Happy Birthday Baby -- Let's Have A Party -- Rockin' with Wanda (1960): Rock Your Baby -- Fujiyama Mama -- You're The One For Me -- Did You Miss Me --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Real Gone Music 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAC

Cox, Lytton

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: T.S. Denison & Co. 1919

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

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

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