Baldwin, James
Summary: "Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL1 available in Consider This, Call number: FIC BAL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALPeterson, Amy
Summary: "Where Goodness Still Grows dissects the moral code of American evangelicalism and puts it back together in a new way. Amy writes as someone intimately familiar with, fond of, and also deeply critical of the world of conservative evangelicalism. She writes as a woman and a mother, as someone invested in the future of humanity, and as someone who just needs to know how to teach her kids what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 PETPryor, Kimberley Jane.
Summary: "Discusses what values are and how doing your best can help you"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 179.9 PRYSummary: An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NERSummary: After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, Oliver returns to Starling City a new man, determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ARRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARRSummary: No one will ever mistake Jeff Reigert for Moses, but like Moses, it is Jeff's job to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. However, Jeff is not exactly the picture of virtue. In fact, Jeff is surrounded by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets. He is so busy juggling his wife Gretchen and his girlfriend, that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TENSummary: When John Goodnight was a boy he watched in the weeds as his entire family was killed in a ruthless outlaw attack. Now, as a Circuit Judge of the Western Territories, Goodnight travels the West, protecting the innocent from injustice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GoMacFarquhar, Larissa
Summary: "What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 MACSummary: Major Sinclair Yeates is a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in pre-independence West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants, Major Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where the inevitable never happens, but the improbable frequently does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV IRIDaniells, Trenna.
Summary: Aaron and Wish the dog: With the help of Wish the dog, Aaron tackles a bunch of problems. Whether he finds himself over his head in lemons or up to his knees in turtles, the two take on everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DANLaughlin, Kara L.
Summary: "This book examines the activism involved in the ongoing fight for racial justice in the United States. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LAUTimberlake, Justin
Summary: "In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TIMBERLAKE, JUSTIN TIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TIMBERLAKE TIMBrooks, David
Summary: Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy--who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 BROJohnson, Bruce D.
Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HILTutu, Desmond.
Summary: "Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world's darkest moments, for decades fighting the racist government policy of apartheid and since then being an ambassador of peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. Yet people continue to find him one of the most joyful and hopeful people they have encountered. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his source of strength and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 TUTBradshaw, John
Summary: The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Book 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BRABurns, Eric.
Summary: Profiles of the Founding Fathers of the United States evaluate their lives, careers, and specific contributions to the U.S. Constitution, in a historical assessment that illuminates their motivations while explaining how their shared vision remains relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BURArtist Not Provided
Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVArtist Not Provided
Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVHalpern, Justin
Summary: Presents a humorous collection of stories about the author's relationships with the opposite sex told chronologically, from his first kiss to getting engaged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It! books 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 HALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 Halpern 2012Johnson, Bruce D.
Summary: Zach and Annie learn about different virtues with the help of their philosophical animal friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Porchlight Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVPrior, Karen Swallow
Summary: "Acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. In reintroducing ancient virtues that are as relevant and essential today as ever, Prior draws on the best classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 028 PRICowan, Justine
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021