Klein, Carol Swartout.
Summary: "Painting for peace in Ferguson is the story of a community coming together, hundreds of artists and volunteers, black and white, young and old, to bring hope and healing to their community using the simplest of all tools- a paintbrush. Written in child-friendly verse, the actual artwork painted on hundreds of boarded up windows in Ferguson, South Grand and surrounding areas illustrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Treehouse Publishing Group, an imprint of Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A documentary that chronicles the history of westward expansion and the construction of the largest stainless steel structure ever built, the Gateway Arch. Featured are newly discovered construction footage, rare photographs of westward expansion and early conceptual drawings by architect Eero Saarinen. Dozens of interviews include World Trade Center Master Plan architect Daniel Libeskind and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.7866 GATSummary: An intimate coming of age story which illuminates the challenges that many black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREFranzen, Jonathan.
Summary: St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. The story shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpine Blue Ribbon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 GRIWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: The only single edition now available of this American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILBush, Cori
Summary: Embodying a new chapter in progressive politics that prioritizes the lives and stories of the most politically vulnerable, the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri in Congress presents a powerful and empowering memoir that is both a personal account and a fierce call to action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, CORI BUSJohnson, Walter
Summary: "From an award-winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.8 JOHHannon, Irene
Summary: Radio talk show host Eve Reilly is used to backlash from her pot-stirring on-air commentary and interviews, but now it seems a disgruntled listener is resorting to more than angry words to express their displeasure. When a suspicious package arrives on her doorstep, Eve turns to law enforcement for help. Police detective Brent Lange can't find any evidence to link the string of unsettling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hannon 2020Hunt, James Patrick
Summary: When Deputies Chris Hummel and Wade Childers are machine-gunned down in one of the most brutal crimes St. Louis has ever seen, Lieutenant George Hastings focuses on investigating the background of Officer Hummel, who did a year-long undercover stint with narcotics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HUNMehl, Nancy
Summary: Kaely Quinn's methods may be unorthodox, but her talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore. When a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she's demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. Then that reporter claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely's. A body is found that fits the poem's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHMehl, Nancy
Summary: Des Moines. When multiple corpses of young women are found-- strangled, hands and feet bound with red ribbon, and a wire angel in their hand-- it fits the MO of The Raggedy Man. But Ed Oliphant-- Kaely Quinn's father-- has been in prison for over twenty years. Did Ed train someone to be a copycat killer? In order to prevent more deaths, Kaely must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: When vampire hunter Anita Blake confronts The Harlequin, terrifying, powerful creatures feared even by the centuries-old vampires, rivals Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the alpha werewolf, must become allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2007
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Summary: "The grandson of a U.S. senator has been brazenly kidnapped out of a hotel room in St. Louis. His life has been threatened if the senator cannot raise the ransom money, an exorbitant amount even he can't scrape together. Ultimately, the boy's fate falls into the hands of a select group of undercover agents known for their discretion, cleverness, and bravery : the Pinkertons. When Allan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIETaulbert, Clifton L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Council Oak Books 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Hunt, James Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HUNKlam, Julie
Summary: "Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLAViets, Elaine
Summary: Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women, fires her entourage and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. She collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, but she ignores the advice of her doctors and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIESummary: About the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri's premier black hospital that trained the largest number of Black doctors and nurses in the world from 1937 through 1979, before and after desegregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020