Summary: Traces the history of black America back to ancient African civilization, examining attempts by the white establishment in the U.S. to conceal this knowledge as a means of undermining African American identity. Presents theories of scholars and social commentators which comprise a history in which African Americans have been systematically oppressed as a people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDAaron, Jason
Summary: "Who is Thor? That's the question on everyone's lips. Most especially Prince Odinson of Asgard. This volume, he starts to narrow down the list of suspects. Meanwhile, tensions continue to flare between the All-Mother and All-Father, Malekith forges his most dangerous pact yet, and Thor prepares to face her greatest challenge!"--provided from Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THOSummary: "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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Contents: I've got the world on a string (5 min., 33 sec.) -- Midnight sun (4 min., 36 sec.) -- How long has this been going on (5 min., 52 sec.) -- You're blase (5 min., 05 sec.) -- Easy living (4 min., 36 sec.) -- More than you know (6 min., 43 sec.) -- My old flame (6 min., 10 sec.) -- Teach me tonight (3 min., 01 sec.) -- Body and soul (3 min., 38 sec.) -- (When your lover has gone (2 min., 52 sec.).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pablo 1978
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL VOCAL VAUSummary: Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Herbie 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERSummary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUContents: Love minus zero/No limit (Eliza Gilkyson) (3:54) -- Sweetheart like you (Guy Davis) (5:07) -- Clothes line saga (Suzzy & Maggie Roche) (3:14) -- Girl of the north country (John Gorka) (3:29) -- Delia (Spider John Koerner & Dave Ray) (2:42) -- I want you (Cliff Eberhardt) (5:15) -- All along the watchtower (Tom Landa & the Paperboys) (4:20) -- Dieu à nos côte's (With God on our side)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red House Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK NODMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.1 MilCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardSummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREJolson, Al
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist Inc. 1923
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMDause, Michael
Contents: All For Me Grog -- The Wellerman -- Marquette Bay -- Haul Away Joe -- Low Bridge (Erie Canal) -- Waltzes: Crescent Moon / Crystal Lake (feat. Sav Buist and Katie Larson) -- Rio Grande -- Three Score and Ten -- Roll the Old Chariot Along -- Leave Her, Johnny
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earthwork Music 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SONHilliard, Chloé
Summary: "Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 HILRosser, Kareem
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSSER, KAREEM ROSSummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGCantor, Jillian.
Summary: A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANLauren, Jillian
Summary: "It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LAUBallard, Pat
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Skidmore Music Co. Inc. 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMGrose, Jessica
Summary: "In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms Inc. 1947
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMillar, Mark
Summary: "In mid-century America, the world's greatest superheroes face epic threats in public while battling private scandals behind closed doors. Now adapted into a big-budget Netflix Original series, get in on the ground floor with one of the most critically acclaimed superhero series of the past 10 years"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JUPReese, Anney
Summary: "The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You. In this book-their first-they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent issues of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 REEWillan, Anne
Summary: "Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food WillanRossi, Veronica
Summary: "1776. A shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity for Frannie Tasker to escape her brutal stepfather. Assuming the identity of drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state. A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American deep state really exist? This sweeping exploration of the intelligence community and FBI scandals of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020