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Culture and globalization Drew, Robert 1924-2014 Graphic novels Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Kennedy, Robert F 1925-1968 Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973 Travel Political aspects United States Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1919-1998Gansworth, Eric
Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GANSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Beam, Alex
Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEAWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: A memoir containing chapters on Elmore Leonard, Ernie Harwell, Sue Marx, Lt. Milo Radulovich, Joe Dumars, Denise Ilitch, J.P. McCarthy, Carl Oglesby, Jennifer Granholm, Jack Kevorkian, George Pierrot, Tom Wilson, Charlie Gehringer, Ron Monchak, Bill Davidson, and Ed Cole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seattle Book Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920 HANSummary: A documentary that explores the possibility that extra-terrestrial creatures visited Earth thousands of years ago and were responsible for many of the structures built by ancient man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHASummary: Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is haunted by memories of places he has never been and manifests skills he's never learned. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves "Infinites" come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real - but they are from multiple past lives. Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock answers in his memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In this first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival--of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric's ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival--as he reveals, with startling candor, an even more harrowing and inspiring tale of fame and addiction, healing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEMARQUE, ERIC LEMHalpern, Paul
Summary: Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up “spread out” in a probabilistic state, neither...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Motivation and the will to win are portrayed in this true story of two British track athletes striving to win major events at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Chariots 1997Krogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXKelly, Jack
Summary: "The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386 KELSummary: "Television's original genius. In the infancy of any medium, there will be someone who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet, creating a television "language" that is now taken for granted. ... over 13 hours of programs that span the all-too-brief but brilliant television career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory LLC 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ERNSteves, Rick
Summary: Presents advice on traveling to different countries of the world as a way of increasing our understanding of different cultures and political systems, and appreciating the interconnectedness within the global community. In his third edition, the author considers the new political reality of Brexit, Refugees, Erdoğan, and Trump, as well as populism, nativism, terrorism, and climate change and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 STESummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESFrankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil)
Summary: Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2006
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Summary: "Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 DALBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuReid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REISearle, Sarah Winifred
Summary: Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SEASummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENHorrocks, Caitlin
Summary: Devoted to her talented composer brother after becoming orphaned in childhood, Louise is forced to confront the realities of her brother's obsessions in the wake of a devastating loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019