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Summary: The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILGill, Joel Christian.
Summary: "Strange Fruit, Volume I, Uncelebrated narratives from Black history is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentaryon nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in history books. Among the stories included are: Henry 'Box' Brown, who escaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 973 GILGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "A comprehensive history of anti-black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GILSummary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FASGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Do you know the story of the slave who sailed himself to freedom? Joel Christian Gill brings Robert Smalls back to life, telling the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the CSS Planter, escapes to freedome, and goes on to become a first-generation Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 GILSummary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELLGrillo, Ioan
Summary: Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GRIDavid-Guillou, Angèle
Contents: Valley of detachment -- A question of angels -- Absolutely not -- Akrotiri -- Forgetting trees -- Quid pro quo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Green 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAVSummary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: Join Elmo and the Sesame Street gang as they travel along asking kids to sing their favorite songs, act out nursery rhymes, lullabies, and just plain silly songs. Also, features the brand new Sesame Street segment, "Hero Guy!"
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Wonder 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SESDitchfield, Christin
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 361.37 DITBarberich, Christene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 749.8 BARMorrell, Christyne
Summary: "When her father is arrested for a crime she unwillingly committed, Prismena will do anything to save him, taking her on a high-flying and shadowy adventure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MORSummary: Features a special story where Elmo finds that with a wave of Abby's wand he can make everyone on Sesame Street sing! Elmo and friends sing loud and soft, high and low, and all over Sesame Street! But what happens when everyone can't stop singing? Featuring music videos with stars such as will.i.am, Jason Mraz, and Feist, and favorite Sesame Street songs, children will want to move and sing along.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv SSummary: C.I.A. agent, Billy Brown, brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife," Layla, is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents. In reality, Billy's whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUFTrent, Chistine.
Summary: Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian London, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade. While her husband, Graham, is preoccupied with elevating their station in society, Violet is cultivating a sterling reputation for Morgan Undertaking. She is empathetic, well-versed in funeral fashions, and comfortable with death's role in life--until its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2013
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES INGBeckner, Chrisanne.
Contents: Crispus Attucks -- Benjamin Banneker -- Elizabeth Freeman -- Phillis Wheatley -- Paul Cuffe -- Richard Allen -- James Forten -- Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm -- Dred Scott -- Sojourner Truth -- Nat Turner -- Martin R. Delany -- Henry H. Garnet -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Tubman -- Henry McNeal Turner -- P.B.S. Pinchback -- Robert Smalls -- Elijah McCoy -- Lewis Howard Latimer --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluewood Books 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 973.04Ditchfield, Christin
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Virginia Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5 DITDitchfield, Christin.
Summary: Describes what freedom of speech is, how and why it is guaranteed in the United States, how it is expressed, what its limits are, what censorship is, and what some of the surrounding debates are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 DITDitchfield, Christin.
Summary: Bible stories of boys and girls who did great things for God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Golden Book 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220 DITDitchfield, Christin.
Summary: Describes the history, equipment, events, and scoring of gymnastics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000