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African Americans Poetry American poetry African American authors 21st century American poetry Illinois Chicago American poetry Women authors 21st century Authors, American Illinois Chicago Good and evil Good and evil Comic books, strips, etc Heroes Heroes Comic books, strips, etc Lardner, Ring 1885-1933Summary: National headlines blazed the story: Churchgoers Gunned Down During Prayer Service in Charleston. South Carolina. After a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, nine African Americans lay dead, leaving their families and the nation to grapple with this senseless act of terror. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMABoring, Mel
Summary: Provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of more than 150 different animals and plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northword Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Science Take BoringBoring, Mel
Summary: Groups birds according to whether they are found in city and town, farm country, field and meadow, or woodland and then describes the birds, their nests, and their eggs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598 BORAta, Te.
Summary: Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he's ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ATABoring, Mel
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics and habits of a variety of rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.32 BORBoring, Mel
Summary: An introduction to the world of insects, caterpillars, and butterflies including identification information, educational activities, and fun facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J595.7 BORBoring, Mel
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics and habits of a variety of rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal Take BoringSolti, Georg Sir
Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIMLithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITSummary: This documentary profiles the groundbreaking career of the comedic musical group They Might Be Giants, which started as a duo of multi-instrumentalists both named John (Flansburgh and Linnell) in the 1980s and grew in the 1990s into being a full-fledged band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plexifilm 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GIGPray, Alison.
Summary: The famous Maine bakery reveals some its secret recipes, including Mediterranean lemon cake, almond macaroons, and cheddar sesame shortbread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.71 PRADe la Cretaz, Britni
Summary: "In the early 1970s, a businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women's football league? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt to capitalize on the popularity of Second Wave Feminism and the passage of Title IX. He recruited women across the country; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to play, and play hard. Hail Mary is the story of the unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.33 DE LDyckman, Ame
Summary: In three-and-a-half stories, friends and roommates Bat, Cat and Rat share, joke, and read together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DYCSummary: Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Bonus features include fear of loud noises, finding the right canine professional and vet tips to help your dog's exercise routine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cesar Millan, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 COMTran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRASummary: Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOOEwing, Eve L.
Summary: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 EWIGrundset, Eric.
Contents: v. 1. General studies. Women and girls during the Revolutionary era ; Women's biography ; American girls ; African American women ; Native American women ; Women and girls in the Revolutionary era, miscellaneous topics -- Women in the family and in society. Women, the family, and genealogy ; Women as mothers and their children ; Women working in the home and elsewhere ; Women's roles in society...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2011
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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 973.3 GRU VOL 1Call number: R-GEN 973.3 GRU VOL 2
Call number: R-GEN 973.3 GRU VOL 3
Bergreen, Laurence
Summary: "The central coast of China, 1405. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1997
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 GRUDorison, Guillaume.
Summary: "On this broiling-hot desert planet, only carapodeswondrous giant tortoisescan safely move around and deliver mail and resources to the lonely cities perched far apart on rocky ledges. And only one person, Arobase, can guide the carapodes. When he decides to leave them to fend for themselves, the whole world starts falling apart."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LITSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023