Summary: Examines immigration policy under both the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of zero tolerance, and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEPSummary: Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie EveningSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Ruth Stoops is pregnant, confused and in trouble with the law for the umpteenth time. But it doesn't stop there. She soon becomes the unwitting object of a wacky tug-of-war that erupts when pro-lifers square off with pro-choicers and everyone goes to ridiculous extremes trying to claim her as a national symbol for their cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CITSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVAronson, Louise
Summary: "[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 AROSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANMonson, Marianne
Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MONLeth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETReese, Anney
Summary: "The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You. In this book-their first-they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent issues of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 REERodriguez, Janel
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 RODHeaney, Katie
Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEANEY, KATIE HEAHakanson, Cath
Summary: 'Mommy, where do babies come from?' It's the question every parent dreads - and, worse still, it's just the tip of the iceberg. Just wait for 'What's a blowjob?' or 'What's an orgasm?' With kids being so curious and the world being so full of sex, ignoring your child's questions just isn't going to cut it - and if you don't tell them, they'll (mis)inform themselves elsewhere: the internet,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sex Ed Rescue 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOFahey, John
Contents: Let go -- Black mommy -- Dvorak -- The world is waiting for the sunrise -- River medley -- Lights out -- Pretty afternoon -- Sunset on Prince George's County -- Layla -- Old country rock.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Varrick Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FAHGilpin, Caroline Crosson
Summary: A biography of Amelia Earhart for young readers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 EARFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONSummary: The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WINDaley, Mark
Summary: "A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered into their lives, Mark and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Fahey, John
Contents: Disc 1: Desperate man blues -- Dance of the inhabitants of the palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain -- Sligo River blues -- Sun gonna shine in my back door someday blues -- On doing an evil deed blues -- I'm gonna do all I can for my Lord -- Some summer day -- Worried blues -- Tell her to come back home -- Poor boy -- Orinda-moraga -- The death of the Clayton peacock -- Brenda's blues -- On the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FAHShaw, Dash
Summary: "During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SHAHanby, Benjamin Russel
Summary: An illustrated version of the well-known Christmas song about Santa filling all the boys' and girls' stockings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ideals Children's Books, a division of Worthy Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAN BOARD BOOKRoberts, Randy
Summary: "Freshly adapted for young readers, this in-depth portrait showcases the complex bond between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, revealing how Malcolm aided in molding Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali and helped him become an international symbol of Black pride and Black independence"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023