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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Teach Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 TickellLentz, Timothy Paul
Summary: In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly fifty-five year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. The Impresario and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside, and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future and a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Wayne State University Press] 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.1 LENSummary: "La nueva edición del exitoso Curso completo de inglés para latinos --de la prestigiosa serie Inglés en 100 días-- te ofrece todo lo que necesitas para desenvolverte con soltura en inglés en Estados Unidos. A través de sus 30 unidades aprenderás el vocabulario y la expresiones claves del idioma, así como la gramática imprescindible. Además, ahora incluye una app de apoyo y acceso a audios que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aguilar 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 CURCalder, Nigel.
Summary: Complete guide to understanding,maintaining,repairing,and overhauling marine diesel engines and small single-cylinder sailboat engines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine Pub. Co. 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.4 CALSummary: On April 24, 1924 the movies changed forever. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio opened and soon assembled the most stars. MGM reigns as Hollywood's class act and legendary entertainment empire. Full of memorable film clips, rare interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and insider information, this is a mother lode for film fans. Profiles perfectionist moguls, glamorous and charismatic actors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MGMBeales, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9337 BEAOsborne, Robert A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9333 OsbBrunt, Douglas
Summary: September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 609.2 BRUGraham-White, Sean
Summary: A new generation of locomotives for a changing world: greener, cleaner, and just as powerful. This book introduces readers to General Electric's Evolution Series, the company’s latest achievement in a long and distinguished history of locomotive design. At the heart of the Evolution's success is the GEVO 12-cylinder engine, which produces the same horsepower as the old 16-cylinder FDL while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 GRASummary: Profiles the New York City Ballet, led by Ballet in Chief Peter Martins, during its 2003 engagement at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, marking the 20th anniversary of the death of ballet legend and New York City Ballet co-founder George Balanchine. Martins, members of the company, and various Russian dancers share their memories of Balanchine and discuss his influence. Includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRIBeaton, Mabel
Summary: This absorbing and entertaining guide provides all the information needed to construct puppets and puppet theaters. Written by professionals with a passion for their art, the detailed and comprehensive manual contains suggestions for making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing. Entire chapters tell how to manipulate the puppet, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and even how to build...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.5 BEAAliki.
Summary: Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.09 ALISummary: Curso completo de inglés, con más de 300 ilustraciones, más de 100 ejercicios con autocorrección, más de 100 conceptos fundamentales, 30 artículos sobre costumbres y cultura de Estados Unidos, más de 700 palabras agrupadas en más de 50 temas de vocabulario, más de 500 frases verbales de uso común en Estados Unidos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.3 INGHarris, Duchess
Summary: In the early 1800s, white Americans sought out more lands. The 1830 Indian Removal Act allowed the US government to trade lands with Native Americans. But officials often forcibly removed Native peoples from their homelands. This book describes this period of forced removal and its lasting effects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J975.004 HARVander Hook, Sue
Summary: Presents a brief history of the Cherokee Indians and describes their forced migration, which came to be known as the Trail of Tears, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 VANTetro, Tony
Summary: A world-renowned art forger who has been duping the art world for forty-five years and served time after a widely-publicized trial, describes the secrets and corruption of that universe while giving an art history lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TETRO, TONY TETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TETRO TETBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRUChristle, Heather
Summary: Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTLE, HEATHER CHRBenoit, Peter
Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGRESummary: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITGorenstein, Nathan
Summary: "The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning-a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, JOHN M. GORKoralek, Jenny.
Summary: A simple retelling of how Moses, who grew to lead the Hebrews out of captivity in Egypt, was saved when his mother and sister set him adrift in a water-tight basket where Pharoah's daughter would find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 222 KorAustin, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antique Collectors' Club 1993