Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Andersen, Eric
Contents: CD one. Everything ain't been said -- Dusty box car wall -- (We were) Foolish like the flowers -- Dream to Rimbaud -- Secrets -- I will wait -- Waves of freedom -- Mama tried / feat. David Bromberg previously unreleased -- Is it really love at all -- Florentine -- Blue River / feat. Joni Mitchell -- Pearl's goodtime blues -- Woman, she was gentle / feat. Joan Baez and Leon Russell -- Moonchild...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANDReel, Monte
Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.127 REEBreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOJones, Saeed
Summary: Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, SAEED JONWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSField, Sally
Summary: One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV role at the age of seventeen. From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Field has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 FIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, SALLY FIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FIELD FIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FieldLapierre, Alexandra
Summary: New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAPPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.02 PETBirdlegs & Pauline (Musical group)
Contents: Never be free of me / Banks -- A mist of a dream ; Pickin' the chicken / Beasley -- Tell me why / Patton, Murphy -- Suffer / Banks -- Teardrops -- Summertime -- Deep thoughts / Murphy -- Monkey Willie / Banks, Duncans -- Pauline / Banks -- Chickiewawa -- Dishrag / Hudson.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1964
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RHYTHM AND BLUES BIRAlexander, Elizabeth
Summary: "In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 ALEFriend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, STEPHEN FRIReed, Lou
Summary: The latest in Ace Records' Songwriters series takes the listener from a version of 'Why Don't You Smile Now' from Lou Reed's pre-Velvet Underground days through selections from the band's albums to three from 1972's solo "Transformer". Here's Kris Needs - author of a 7,000-word essay in the accompanying 24-page booklet - with some background on the two songs that bookend the collection.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHAAlexander, Heather
Summary: "A state-by-state compendium of weird laws, quirks, one-offs, and unusual records only to be found in the wonderfully wacky US of A. Only in America! explores the strangest claims to fame and the most unusual place names every state has to offer. Visit the city of Dinosaur, drop by the Pizza Museum, find out where it is illegal to feed a pig without a permit, and check out the world's only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 ALEHamilton, Alexander
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Fund 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A grieving father seeks answers after his fourteen-year-old son dies by suicide. He uncovers painful truths about the lives of teens, the impact of unfettered access to internet and social media, and the shocking rise of depression among America's youth. The journey brings him together with young suicide survivors, prevention experts, and parents trying to understand the 70% increase in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TELFriend, Cliff
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder 1919