Carolan, Michael S.
Summary: Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he's made it. In The Food Sharing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HENSummary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SHECaroll, Robin
Summary: "Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life--a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASShammas, Carole.
Contents: Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America -- Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism -- 1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies -- 2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism -- 3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law -- Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism -- 4....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Press 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 ShammasCargle, Rachel Elizabeth
Summary: "A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map--her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Westheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola)
Summary: "America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 921 WESTHEIMER, RUTH WESCarll, Hayes
Contents: None'ya -- Times like these -- Things you don't wanna know -- If I may be so bold -- Jesus and Elvis -- American dream -- Be there -- Beautiful thing -- What it is -- Fragile men -- Wild pointy finger -- I will stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dualtone Music Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CARMeralli, Swann
Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERCastle, Jacqui
Summary: "While on a routine assignment scouting the country's dwindling natural resources, Patricia 'Patch' and her best friend, Rexx, discover a cache of dangerous contraband--printed books from before The Seclusion. These texts spark an unquenchable thirst for the truth that leads to the arrest of Patch's father by the totalitarian Board, which runs the entire coutnry. Evading their own arrest, Patch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASSummary: Employing a mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in his work, the transformative filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SIGBridges, Ruby
Summary: Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and to create change through education. She traveled across the US, listening to the inspiring voices of young children.Dear Ruby: Hear Our Hearts is a compilation of letters from concerned young students about today's issues, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books. an Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE BRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIBoggs, Dock
Contents: Down South blues (2:08) -- Country blues (3:48) -- Pretty Polly (2:52) -- Coal Creek march (1:53) -- My old horse died (1:43) -- Wild Bill Jones (2:08) -- Rowan County crew (6:06) -- New prisoner's song (2:51) -- Oh, death (3:15) -- Prodigal son (3:52) -- Mother's advice (3:38) -- Drunkard's lone child (4:04) -- Bright sunny South (3:36) -- Mistreated mama blues (1:49) -- Harvey Logan (3:24) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BOGDiggs, Barbara
Summary: "Biases become harmful when they lead us to treat people unfairly. When unfair treatment of a particular group is widespread in a community or society, it gives rise to discrimination and inequality. But due to the country's long embrace of racially discriminatory laws, policies, and social codes, racial bias stands out as a particularly entrenched and destructive problem"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 DIGGoodman, Carly
Summary: "In 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery became part of U.S. immigration policy. As with many U.S. immigration policies over the years, the actual lived experience of the lottery generated unintended and unexpected consequences, becoming more powerful and important than its creators could envision. Dreamland tells the story of the lottery, correcting the sometimes willful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 GOOSummary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPISager, Carole Bayer.
Summary: "In this memoir, Carole Bayer Sager tells the surprisingly frank and darkly humorous story of a woman whose sometimes crippling fears and devastating relationships inspired many of the songs she would ultimately write. She gives a deeply personal account of how love and heartbreak made her the woman, and the writer, she is"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SAGER, CAROLE BAYER SAGWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023