Summary: "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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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: "Explore the art of floral design with renowned floral designer Peter Grontas, of Flowers of the World, NYC. In this fun and easy DVD you will learn how to transform common fresh cut flowers from your local flower shop into beautiful arrangements for your home. By combining different textures and colors you will learn to achieve stunning designs to brighten your home and create beautiful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Interactive Inc. 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.92 FLO

Summary: I.S.318 is an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRO

Files, Meg

Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words Files

Summary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KIN

Summary: Set in a former mining village in Wales, an inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAR

Biles, Simone

Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIL

Bondy, Filip.

Summary: Traces the highs and lows of United States participation in international men's soccer, and follows the team's route to qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 BON

Figes, Orlando

Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIG

Huxford, Folks

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1951

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3758 PIO

Ailes, Roger

Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIV

Csányi, Vilmos

Summary: "How do dogs think? After a decade of research, the noted ethologist Vilmos Csanyi has captured the high degree of mutual understanding and empathy that exists between humans and their proverbial best friends. Drawing in part on close observation of his own dogs, Flip and Jerry, Csanyi argues that the long-standing alliance of dogs and humans arose from the problem-solving and communication...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CSA

NILES, BLAIR

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1946

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NIL

Firme, Tom

Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIR

Foles, Nick

Summary: Get ready to defy the odds when everyone's counting you out. When the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans--and commentators--assumed the Eagles' season was over. Instead, Nick Foles came off the bench and, against all odds, led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory in history. How did Nick get it done--winning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOLES, NICK FOL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FOLES FOL

Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Summary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEY

Wiles, Deborah

Summary: "Bobby is the story of Robert F. Kennedy, as told by a grandfather to his grandchild. Born in 1925 into a family of great privilege, Bobby was a prominent American politician and lawyer who learned to use his advantages in life to make a difference."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KEN

Davidson, Wilma.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 DAV

Eldredge, Niles.

Contents: The duality of life -- Obsessed with genes -- Chickens and eggs : the two sides of life -- The natural economy -- The consequences of baby making -- Economics + babies + time = evolution -- Clones, colonies, and social life -- Human singularities -- Naught so queere as folke : the strange biology of modern humans -- The human triangle -- Sex decoupled -- Up close and personal : sex, power,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 ELD

Figes, Orlando.

Summary: A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. We know of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, however, has explored the regime's effect on people's personal lives. Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, this book reveals...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 FIG

Melville, Wilma

Summary: "The incredible memoir of how Wilma Melville turned a band of shelter dogs into one of America's foremost disaster-response assets in catastrophes from 9/11 to Katrina. Ana and Hunter were failed service dogs. Recon was left for dead on the train tracks.Cody was returned to the shelter seven times before he turned two. To most, these dogs were unadoptable. Unsalvageable. Irredeemable. To...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 MEL

Firme, Tom

Summary: "Learn about the history of the conflict between Israel and certain Arab countries that have opposed Israel's existence since the country was formed in 1948 in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.04 FIR