Harper, Benjamin
Summary: In this graphic adaptation of the American folktale, John Henry is the strongest elf in Gem Forest, able to carve out a perfect mining tunnel with a single swing of his hammer; so when Snotsworthy the gnome invents a machine that digs tunnels without the need for paid workers, John Henry challenges the gnome to a contest on sinister Witchfinger Mountain--home to a tribe of sleeping orcs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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Summary: "Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. On his first night there, a sticky creature...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MBABurgan, Michael
Summary: Presents the life of the business mogul who turned a small food packagaing company into a booming business known for its fair treatment of workers and pioneering safe food preparation standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEIPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "John Henry is the strongest, fastest hammerman working on the railroads in the years after the American Civil War. One day, a salesman comes by with a machine he says can drill faster than any man. John is determined to prove no fancy device can beat him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAReese, John Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REEReese, John Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REEReese, John Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REEReese, John Henry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REENewman, John Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 252.03 NEWSmith, Bessie
Contents: Downhearted blues / Lovie Austin, Alberta Hunter (3:24) -- 'Taint nobody's bizness if I do / Porter Grainger, Robert Prince, Clarence Williams (3:28) -- My sweetie went away / Lou Handman, Roy Turk (3:12) -- Weeping willow blues / Paul Carter (3:10) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (3:11) -- Reckless blues / Jack Gee, Fred Longshaw (3:01) -- You've been a good ole wagon / Stuart Balcom, Bessie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SMISummary: After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1993
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TombstoneCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TOMOttemiller, John H. (John Henry)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.82 OTTSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYTrump, Donald
Summary: Composed entirely of quotations from President Donald Trump in the wake of Hurricane Florence. On September 19, 2018, Trump paid a visit to New Bern, North Carolina, one of the towns ravaged by Hurricane Florence. It was there he showed deep concern for a boat that washed ashore. "At least you got a nice boat out of the deal," said President Trump to hurricane victims. "Have a good time!" he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRUSummary: "What do real estate tycoon Donald Trump and the Heinz Tomato Ketchup dynasty have in common? Their ancestors come from Kallstadt, a small, quiet winegrowing village in the German Palatinate region. This powerful entrepreneurial spirit must be part of the genetic make-up! Director Simone Wendel-also from Kallstadt-explores the issue in depth."--IMDB.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KINPatterson, J. H. (John Henry)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.296 PATSummary: The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist - none other than the notorious Doc Holliday. Meanwhile, Steven and Dodo decide to explore the town, and soon find themselves the replacement act at the Last Chance Saloon. Tensions are running high in the feud between the Clanton family and Doc Holliday, while the local lawman,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXSummary: 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: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWSummary: Generations of a family face adventure as they move West with dreams of land, gold and glory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008