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Summary: "Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. [This book] goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for 'nonviolent resistance' to all forms of oppression--including the economic injustice that 'takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 HONSummary: The Merrye children suffer from a rare genetic malady in which they mentally regress to a condition of pre-human savagery and cannibalism. They live in their family mansion and terrorize and kill anyone or anything that passes through the gates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPIHanel, Rachael.
Contents: We'll be the last ones to let you down -- Digger O'Dell -- In the midst of life we are in death -- Stormy weather -- Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints -- Break the plow -- As you think, you travel -- When beauty dies -- A gossamer world -- Helter skelter -- Opening night -- The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away -- What was left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANEL, RACHAEL HANHanel, Rachael.
Summary: "Describes the fight for survival during a major earthquake"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUHanel, Rachael.
Summary: "Describes the fight for survival while exploring Antarctica"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: A hilarious comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Max, a terrier, has his favorite-pet status turned upside-down when his owner takes in a stray named Duke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2017
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGHonig, Michael.
Summary: A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry.Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONHainey, Michael
Summary: Traces the author's investigation into the mystery of his father's sudden death, describing his father's achievements as a reporter, inconsistencies in his father's medical records, and the honor code of secrecy that challenged his research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINEY, BOB HAISummary: The Unit is a covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. They are on the front lines, protecting U.S. citizens and foreigners alike, risking their lives daily in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNIJohn, Elton.
Contents: Teardrops (with k.d. lang) (4:52) -- When I think about love (I think about you) (with P.M. Dawn) (4:34) -- The power (with Little Richard) (6:24) -- Shakey ground (with Don Henley) (3:50) -- True love (with Kiki Dee) (3:32) -- If you were me (with Chris Rea) (4:23) -- A woman's needs (with Tammy Wynette) (5:16) -- Old friend (with Nik Kershaw) (4:15) -- Go on and on (with Gladys Knight) (5:49)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOHSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A tribute to Ella Jenkins, featuring new renditions of her signature songs by a variety of folk and children's performers, including Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, Bill Harley, and others.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV JENSummary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: "At work, L.A. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a woman in charge. Got a suspect to grill, a case to crack, a murderer about to walk? Call Brenda in and watch the fireworks. But at home ... well, that's another story ... As a cop, Brenda takes on everytihing from a corpse that comes COD to a serial killer to Sharon Raydor, an internal affairs officer as tough as she is. As a civilian, Brenda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Dahl, Michael
Summary: There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHMcMullen, Conley K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.9866 MCMContents: Deb (heart broken) / Souad Massi (5:02) -- Oualahila ar tesninam / Tinariwen (3:47) -- Bèl kongo / Emeline Michel (4:12) -- People get ready / Eva Cassidy (3:16) -- Rivers of Babylon / The Melodians (3:23) -- The retreat song (jikele emaweni) / Miriam Makeba (2:33) -- 13 de maio / Caetano Veloso (3:36) -- Dignificada / Lila Downs (3:44) -- Sitting on top of the world / Sweet Honey in the Rock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NPR Classics 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT IFoley, Lizzie K.
Summary: Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012