Summary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALIHoller, Anne.
Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOLMillard, Anne
Summary: Discusses how and why the ancient Egyptians built pyramids, what happened to these structures, and what kinds of pyramids were built in other parts of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Company 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 932 MillaMillard, Anne
Summary: "From the first cities of Sumer to the empire of the Incas, travel around the world and through 5,000 years of history in this illustrated guide to see where and how ancient peoples lived. From North America to New Zealand, this book takes you on a trip around the world and through history to visit ancient cities and empires, showing who lived where and explaining the unique features of each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Summary: Describes the pyramids of Egypt and the Americas and their significance in the social, political, and religious life of long-vanished civilizations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 932 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 MILSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARMingus, Charles
Contents: Meditation on inner peace -- Ode to Bird and Dizzy -- They trespass the land of the sacred Sioux -- The arts of Tatum and Freddy Webster -- Once upon a time, there was a holding corporation called Old America -- Muscrat ramble -- Don't be afraid, the clown's afraid too -- Don't let it happen here.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Mingus Enterprises 1965
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MINMingus, Charles
Contents: So long Eric / Charles Mingus (19:40) -- Medley: She's funny that way / Richard Whiting (2:00) -- Medley (con't) -- Embraceable you / George Gershwin (5:00) -- I can't get started / Vernon Duke (5:00) -- Ghost of a chance / Victor Young (2:00) -- Old portrait / Charles Mingus (2:10) -- Cocktails for two / Coslow, Johnston (8:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 1970
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MINContents: Volcano (2:48) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- 9:20 Special (3:07) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Shiny Stockings (5:06) Count Basie and his Orchestra. -- Cherokee (3:22) Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. -- Skyliner (3:00) Charlie Barnet an
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BIGMiller, Connie Colwell
Summary: "Fun text and illustrations teach the basic concept of using manners and saying, "Excuse me""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILMiller, Connie Colwell
Summary: "In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Kendra is angry that her dad wants her to go to bed. Will she throw a fit or talk it out? Readers make choices for Kendra and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 155.4 MILSummary: In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: Introduces Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, focusing on their relationship and interspersed with letters that Annie wrote home detailing Helen's early communication progress.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELHurwitz, Johanna.
Summary: A biography of the blind and deaf girl who overcame both handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HURSummary: The cameras follow trailblazing comic, Joan Rivers, for a year and cover her entire career from her break on the Carson show, to her heartbreak over the suicide of her husband, and her role on Celebrity Apprentice. Rivers reveals her relentless desire to keep working with humor and empathy. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, Rivers is once again returned to the spotlight she so richly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOAMiller, Connie Colwell
Summary: "Simple text and photographs present the Labrador breed and how to care for them"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.752 MILThompson, Gare.
Summary: A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KELLERSummary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Summary: "Fun text and illustrations teach the basic concept of using manners and saying, "Please" and "Thank you""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILMiller, Connie Colwell
Summary: "Fun text and illustrations teach the basic concept of table manners"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MiracleHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HELHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HELSummary: A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008