Elledge, Jim
Summary: "A history of gay Chicago told through the stories of queer men who left a record of their sexual activities in the Second City, this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives. Some, such as reporter John Wing, were public figures. Others, like Henry Gerber, who created the first "homophile" organization in the United States,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 ELLSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Land 2021Averbeck, Jim
Summary: Sophia has one true desire for her birthday. But she has Four Big Problems in the way: Mom, Dad, Uncle Conrad ... and Grand-mama. Will her presentations, proposals, and pie charts convince them otherwise? Turns out, all it takes is one word.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG AVEJimi.
Summary: A boy befriends the moon when it falls from the sky, until finally, after much love and nurturing, the moon remembers how to find its way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE LIASummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUIllidge, Joseph
Summary: "When Prince burst onto the pop scene in 1978, he put Minneapolis on the music map. Many up-and-coming bands followed the trail that he blazed. MPLS Sound is the story of one such group--Starchild, led by a young woman inspired by Prince to start her own revolution. Through her journey, we see from within exactly how His Royal Badness transformed the entire Minneapolis scene."--Provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ILLMilledge, Sas
Summary: Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MILLiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUSummary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYEldredge, Stasi
Summary: We all spend a lot of energy reaching for happiness, but we are never quite able to hang on to it. Real life happens, and our circumstances take us on an emotional rollercoaster ride. So the Bible’s call to “be joyful always” sounds almost crazy—and out of reach. But it doesn’t have to be. Joy is meant to be ours, a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world. This joy is not simply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 ELDHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOEldredge, Brett
Contents: Can't keep up -- Songs about you -- I feel fine -- What else ya got -- Hideaway -- Get out of my house -- Home sweet love -- Want that back -- Wait up for me -- Where do I sign -- Holy water -- Where the light meets the sea.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ELDEldredge, John
Summary: "We live in soul-scorching times. The mad pace of life, the number of demands on our time and energy, and the overwhelming torrent of information coming at us 24-7 have left us ragged, wrung-out, and emptied. By practicing a few wonder­fully simple practices--or what John Eldredge calls "graces"--you can begin to recover your soul, disentangle from the tragedies of this broken world, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.86 ELDEaton, Jil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonLee, J.M.
Summary: "An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEESherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mantra 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHESledge, Percy.
Summary: Features 20 classic soul songs from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Percy Sledge including When a Man Loves a Woman.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 EatonLee, Jid
Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHESwaan, Wim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1984