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Summary: "Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of bringing a nationally acclaimed new institution to life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 BUNPy-Lieberman, Beth
Summary: "This authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LSummary: When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Night 2009Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIG RATED PGBolden, Tonya
Summary: The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening. And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America. The campaign to set up a museum honoring black citizens is nearly 100 years old; building the museum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 BOLSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Mufti, Shahan
Summary: Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIG RATED PGLee, Sally
Summary: What do giant squids, a possibly cursed diamond, dinosaur bones, and a man made of soap all have in common? These are some of the amazing artifacts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Take a tour through the museum's collections. Engaging text, graphs, maps, and colorful images help readers discover the stories behind some of these treasured pieces of natural history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 LEEPatterson, James
Summary: Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. Someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATPost, Jeffrey E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 553.8 POSPatterson, James
Summary: Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. Someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PATSummary: Talks about the 83 year construction process and the mission of what has become a house of God for all people. Gives highlights of its history from the vision that started it to the decisions that shaped its progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WASSmith, Charles R.
Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.302 SMIWalton, Kathryn N.
Summary: "The White House, more than 200 years old, remains one of the most recognizable landmarks of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, this structure--also called the Executive Mansion--is a home and an office building. Readers will be fascinated to learn what's behind the stunning façade through this valuable volume's at-level, insightful text, fascinating fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 WALCollison, Campbell
Summary: "Over the years, U.S. presidents have lived in the President's Palace, the Executive Mansion, and the President's House. What about the White House, you may wonder? Well, it's the same building! But this iconic landmark wasn't given its current name until 1901. What else is there to learn about the White House? Read this book to find out!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 COLArlow, Jake Maia
Summary: Snowy weather and fish fossils help bring together two Jewish college freshmen spending winter break in Washington, D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARLRodota, Joseph
Summary: "A biography of Washington's most famous apartment complex -- the buildings with a thousand stories of the notables who have lived there"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 RODLewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ABSSlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Shares the story of how George Washington had a home built for the future presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SLASummary: Host Tom Cavanagh takes viewers beyond the exhibit halls on an insider's tour of private rooms, high tech vaults, and cutting-edge labs of the Smithsonian, revealing some of the amazing artifacts and rarely-seen treasures that visitors can't see.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOLong, Eric F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. in association with Boston Mills Press 2006