Summary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Summary: Eric Konigsberg's great uncle, Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg, was a mobster, a killer and a con artist. F.B.I. agents considered him the smartest hit man they'd ever met. None of his relatives ever spoke of him, until one day, Eric got a phone call...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 KONJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILDill, Khodi
Summary: An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes for little ones, their families, and anyone who loves A is for Activist and Antiracist Baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DILBull, John.
Summary: A simple and enjoyable book to aid in the identification of eastern species of birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1977
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598 BULDill, Khodi
Summary: "An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.896 DILBial, Raymond.
Summary: Discusses the nature and importance of soil and the many forms of life it supports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J577.5 BiaBiel, Steven
Summary: Presents a comprehensive examination of the classic 1930 painting "American Gothic" by artist Grant Wood, describes how it came to represent traditional American values, and how it was later used in television, politics, advertising, and popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BIEBoll, Heinrich
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 BOLL, HEINRICH BOLBial, Raymond.
Summary: Looks at the problem of dog overpopulation in America; discusses the role of puppy mills, pet stores, and independent breeders; and includes a profile of a local animal shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2011
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Summary: "In this entertaining and informative book, science writer Till Hein shares the most tantalizing findings from the world of seahorses, opening up some of the secrets of these magical creatures of the sea. He reveals their intriguing biological features, such as their unique prehensile tails, their fins, and their lack of a stomach (seahorses only have intestines!). He speaks to experts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 HEIBrill, David
Summary: "In 1979, David Brill became one of the first of a new generation to complete the Georgia-to-Maine hike on the Appalachian Trail. 'As Far as the Eye Can See', now a classic, chronicles his six-month, 2,100-mile walk, a quest to live simply and deliberately, with room to grow, to breathe, to change, to discover what really mattered to him."
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.5 BRIBrill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRIBrill, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BRIBull, Angela
Summary: Examines the life and disappearance of the pilot who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane by herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BULKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1967
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KONBiel, Timothy L.
Summary: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 BIEBoysen, Sarah Till
Summary: This fascinating book, written by a world authority on animal intelligence, brings together the cumulative research on the comparative intelligence levels of nonhuman "smart" species. Sally Boysen reveals how these intelligent animals communicate, learn behavior, show feelings and emotions and, for some species, how they use tools, count and sometimes pick up a foreign language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.513 BOYBrill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Examines the tic disorder known as Tourette syndrome, its symptoms and manifestations, how it can be controlled and treated, and, through case studies, what it is like to live with Tourette's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 BRISill, Ben L.
Summary: While identifying 30 new species, this field guide is replete with excellent illustrations, detailed descriptions, observation hints, and range maps. Birders and bird watchers will never look at their feathered friends in quite the same way after they encounter these freakquent fliers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 SILSill, Cathryn
Summary: A first glimpse in English and Spanish into the natural world of amphibians, exploring what they are, how they look, how they move, what they eat, and where they live.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J GREEN SILBaird, Bil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1965
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.5 BAIGilbert, Bil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 GILBull, Debby
Summary: Irreverent and very funny, a former Rolling Stone writer takes readers on a not so metaphorical journey, during which, in the process of canning, she apparently discovers important truths. Having fled New York for Montana (and another abode in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, her childhood home), she found that the method to Bull's madness, or rather the way to relieve the depression following a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1997