Maupin, Melissa
Summary: Eighteenth-century mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was widely known and respected in his time. Most of what he knew, he taught himself. His letter to Thomas Jefferson asked the future president to reconsider his racial prejudices. Learn about Banneker, who abolitionists would use as proof that people of any race can be equally intelligent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANSummary: A darkly mysterious tale of two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation officer keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be a sinister force from Flo's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VICMartin, Melissa
Summary: "Every hour of the day, Louisiana loses a football field's worth of land to the Gulf. And so before her hometown disappears entirely, chef Melissa Martin wants to document the recipes, ingredients, and customs of the Cajun people. Cocoderie, Louisiana, may soon no longer be listed on maps, but the incredible traditions of the region should remain. In the same way Zora Neale Hurston documented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59763 MARMartin, Melissa
Summary: Bear Cub spies a pair of underpants hanging from a tree branch and sets out to find their owner, but they belong to none of his forest friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARContents: Power of love/Love power (Luther Vandross) -- If only you knew (Patti LaBelle) -- I believe in you and me (The Four Tops) -- Distant lover (Marvin Gaye) -- Reunited (Peaches and Herb) -- La la means I love you (The Delfonics) -- You should be mine (the woo woo song) (Jeffrey Osborne) -- Do me baby (Meli'sa Morgan) -- Just to be close to you (Commodores) -- If I were your woman (Gladys Knight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BODEllis, Melissa Martin.
Summary: Everyone loves a real-life ghost story! Ellis takes you on a journey into the supernatural world of haunted sites, restless souls, and messages from beyond the grave. She shows you the most up-to-date technology, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves, and shows you how today's investigators use the tools of modern science to study a wide range of paranormal activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Identity 2013Maupin, Armistead
Summary: Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAUPIN, ARMISTEAD MAUSummary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNASummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Meyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYSmith, Malissa
Contents: She-devils and Amazonian tigresses : women enter the boxing ring -- Victorian ladies boxing -- Boxing, women, and the mores of change -- Encountering the modern : Flappers, Mae West, and the war years -- Boxing in the Age of the "Mighty Atom" -- Burning bras, taking on the "sheriff," and winning the right to fight -- A ring of their own -- These ladies love the ring -- Christy Martin and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.4 SMISummary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMaupin, Bennie
Contents: Ensenada -- Mappo -- Excursion -- Past+present=future -- The jewel in the lotus -- Winds of change -- Song for Tracie Dixon Summers -- Past is past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MAUAlink, Merissa
Summary: "From the immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 ALILaveaux, Mélissa
Contents: Scissors -- My boat -- Chère trahison -- Ulysses -- Interlude Haïti -- Koudlo -- Dodo titit -- Needle in the hay -- Interlude voyeur -- Games of unrest -- Akeelah's heel -- I want to be evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: No Format! 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAVSummary: Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALMaupin, Armistead
Summary: "The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MAU1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Maupin, Armistead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MaupiMaupin, Armistead.
Summary: A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin. Mary Ann, a TV show host, must choose between national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUMaupin, Bennie.
Contents: Within reach (2:36) -- Escondido (7:44) -- Inside the shadows (2:21) -- ATMA (8:59) -- Ours again (3:49) -- Jewel in the lotus (10:15) -- Black ice (3:04) -- Tears (7:52) -- Not later than now (2:38) -- Early reflections (5:52) -- Inner sky (7:19) -- Prophet's motifs (4:23) -- Spirits of the Tatras (9:00)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cryptogramophone 2008