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Anthologies Children of suicide victims United States Biography Conduct of life Courage Greek Americans Biography Jazz 2001-2010 Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Women motion picture producers and directors United States Biography Women Olympic athletes Greece Biography Women runners United States BiographyArthur, Alex.
Summary: Photographs and text examine different types of shells, including seashells, eggshells, and fossil shells, focusing on such aspects as how shells camouflage themselves and how they may be collected.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 594 ARTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 594 ARTSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXISummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUContents: The real McBot (Sandoval) (5:31) -- Eso es lo que hay (Sandoval) (5:56) -- Eastern blues (Felipe Lamoglia) (10:22) -- Blues for Diz (Sandoval) (12:50) -- A lovely one (Sandoval) (10:14) -- Sureña (Sandoval) (6:59) -- If I ain't got you (Alicia Keys) (5:05) -- Rhythm of our world (Sandoval) (15:10).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ARTDelrieu, Alexia.
Summary: Le point sur l'histoire et la naissance de l'Europe et sa finalité, à travers des exemples concrets (nom de pays de l'Union, construction d'Ariane, rôle de l'Europe dans la protection de l'environnement, etc.).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard jeunesse 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 DEL FRENCHHenrion, Alexia
Summary: D.I.Y. Dollhouse is a lavishly illustrated guide for budding architects, builders, and designers, showing then how to build and furnish their own eco-friendly dollhouse, with an incredible eye for detail. The simple instructions cover everything children (and parents) need to get started, from making rooms out of crate boxes and pieces of scrap fabric to crafting countless furniture and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 HENAmvrazi, Alexia
Summary: Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink bougainvillea, blue-domed Greek Orthodox churches, picturesque villages, and famous historical sites have lured...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2018
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Summary: Pigs live on a farm. Apples grow on a farm. Tractors dive on a farm. What else might you find on a farm?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOCLubomirski, Alexi
Summary: "Words have power--the power to hurt or to heal, to make someone feel small or to make someone feel tall. Gorgeously illustrated with bright colors and bold lines, this gentle text encourages even the youngest readers to choose their words carefully and to use those words to make the world a better, more loving place."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanging Loose Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ALELubomirski, Alexi
Summary: England-born, New York-based photographer Alexi Lubomirski has become an established name within the fashion industry, shooting for such publications as "Harper's Bazaar," "Vogue" and "GQ," and working with cover stars such as Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman, to name but a few. It was after shooting Lupita Nyong'o, however, that Lubomirski was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 LUMVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitVarious Authors
Summary: The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Witter Bynner, Max Eastman,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.508 SPOAndrews, Alexa.
Summary: "In this easy reader, kids will have fun seeing photographs and reading about the fish that live in the ocean, sand castles on the beach, and birds in the sky"--Description from Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE ANDHagerty, Alexa
Summary: "An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 HAGWest, Alexa
Summary: "Shows women how to travel the world without going broke or getting kidnapped. This inspirational page-turner is filled with travel lessons, stories, and step-by-step guides that will turn even the most inexperienced explorer into a travel expert before even leaving the couch"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 WESAlexie, Sherman
Summary: A collection of poems by contemporary Native-American writer Sherman Alexie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanging Loose Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ALEAlexie, Sherman
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1998
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Summary: Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXIE, SHERMAN ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALEXIE ALECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AlexieKurzius, Alexa
Summary: Gravity is one of the most important forces in the universe invisible, but vital to our existence. It keeps our feet planted firmly on solid ground, and it keeps our planet from crashing into others. But how does it work? Readers will learn how gravity affects all matter, what effects changing gravity can have on human bodies, and how gravity interacts with other forces. They will also conduct...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531 KURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531 KURVarious authors
Contents: The beaast in the jungle / Henry James. -- Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Swann in love (from Remembrance of things past) / Marcel Proust. -- A lost lady / Willa Cather. -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitMarthers, Janet
Summary: Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College is a different sort of college guide -- one that helps students and their families better understand the vast amount of options available for college based on a student's interests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheatmark 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 MARLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017