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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperEntertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.47 LORBurke, Kelsy
Summary: "For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets--historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.77 BURPablo Cruz, Rosayra
Summary: "From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and thepower of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PABLO CRUZ, ROSAYRA PABBradley, James
Summary: A vast history of American-Chinese relations from its missionary origins to the eve of WWII. Dark portraits of those whom conventional history has acclaimed, potent in its critique of the missionary instinct, and brilliant in its exploration of the power of myth and mirage to convince men and women and nations that destiny is on their side, this is James Bradley's most intrepid work yet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.730 BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.730 BRASt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCBell, Richard
Summary: "A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 INK, Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELChinn, Laura
Summary: "Laura Chinn tells her by turns horrifying and hilarious story of growing up with non-conformist, irresponsible parents and countless family tragedies (and really bad, chronic acne) and how she found happiness despite everything"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHINN, LAURA CHIDuncan, Hamish
Summary: A chronological look at the performances, song writing and recording sessions, band members' lives and events surrounding the career of the funk rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1983, the band's first year of existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DUNWhite, Mel
Summary: "This reference is the ultimate travel planner for all things national parks, scenic trails, seashores, historic areas, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 UNITED STATES WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.304 WHIHall, Shyima.
Summary: The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HALThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOHolden, Vanessa M.
Summary: "The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLHall, Shyima.
Summary: Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. An anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude-but her journey to true freedom was far from over. A volunteer at her local police department, Hall is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, SHYIMA HalSummary: Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEUWhite, Mel
Summary: From New England to Alaska, this 544 page resource is filled with helpful advice, historical background, and practical facts on how to reach scores of park system properties, when to go, and what to do there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHISummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: The Friedman's seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold and his son Jesse with sexually molesting scores of young boys. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hit the Ground Running 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPSummary: Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEUSchweizer, Peter
Summary: "Peter Schweizer investigates the apathy American elites' have about China's undermining of American society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELSmith, Jay M.
Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMISummary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007