Summary: A documentary recollection of music and musicians associated with Kansas City, Mo. in the 1930's, featuring Count Basie and his orchestra, Joe Turner, and Jay McShann.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRSummary: Amy Gorman and Frances Kandl journey throught the San Francisco bay Area searching for female role models--very old women, still active artists, living with zest. While Amy chronicles their oral histories, Frances is inspired to compose songs. Honors the gift of age, and illustrates that growing old can be a time of creative expression and satisfaction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoldenBearCasting 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STIYount, Lisa.
Summary: A biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microsopic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB LEEUWENHO YOUSummary: Examines the history of modern youth culture and the evolution of the idea of the "teenager", from the late 19th century to the beginning of the post-War period. Consists of archival film footage, diary entries, and dramatic recreations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEEYount, David.
Summary: Shows how the Quakers shaped the basic distinctive features of American life from the days of the founders and the colonies through the Revolution and up to the civil rights movement; also points out how Quaker values like freedom, equality, straightforwardness, and spirituality can be seen in modern day peace advocates.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.673 YOUSakhai, Essie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.7 SakhaiContents: v. 1. General Sessions of the Peace, 1686-1721. The Court of Common Pleas, 1686-1702. -- v. 2-4. General Sessions of the Peace, 1719[-1827] -- v. 5-16. The Court of Common Pleas, 1702[-1859]
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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Glazier 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744 KCOURT MUSICIANS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN COUCounts, Jeff
Summary: Explorer's Guide Michigan is the most comprehensive guide to the Great Lakes State. It's the perfect companion for exploring the Upper and Lower Peninsulas; the shores of Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior; Detroit's entertainment district; backwoods taverns in the Upper Peninsula; historic sites on Mackinac Island; and the best places to enjoy winter sports. Sidebars mark the author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. N. Abrams 1974
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 549 COUCourt, Maddy
Summary: "Writer Maddy Court answers letters from queer women and people of marginalized genders about dating, friendship, and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 COUO'Reilly, Court
Summary: "Learn to burn! Woodburning, also known as pyrography, is a craft on the rise and now you can learn how to get started with the expert advice in this book from the renowned wood artist, Court O'Reilly. The book starts with an introduction to the necessary tools and supplies. You'll learn how to pick the wood burner that is right for you and how to safely use it. You'll start simply by learning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stash Books 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 745.51 O'REMount, Harry
Summary: In this lighthearted, guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 478.242 LATBurgan, Michael
Summary: "From appearances in films and animated features to interpretations as a Muppet and breakfast cereal mascot, Dracula has been the inspiration for many other fictional vampires and is now an established figure in pop culture. Created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 Gothic horror novel, Count Dracula is a nobleman who uses his powers as a vampire to dominate his victims. Even though Dracula didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 823.8 BURHanna, Carolyn.
Summary: "The information for this book has been abstracted by a painstaking search through the pages of the Chancery Court Records, Books A through the middle of Book H"--Introduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scott County Historical & Genealogical Society 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3767Mount Clemens High School
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 1948
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37743 MacombWashington-Williams, Essie Mae
Summary: The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WASBessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESBlount, Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BLOBound, Mensun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Editions 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 BOUCoens, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3125 COEFossi, Gloria
Summary: "Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned artist's most famous paintings in this beautiful art bookand travelogue, illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white and full-color images throughout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.9492 FOSMelman, Yossi.
Summary: Inspired by hate and surrounded by fundamentalist leaders in a country that may soon possess nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses the most serious threat to world peace, even while he shrewdly manipulates public opinion at home. Until now, Americans have known little about him. Since his election in June 2005, Ahmadinejad has accelerated his country's nuclear research; called for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007