Linden, Des

Summary: April 16, 2018: the Boston Marathon. Linden was recovering from illness and questioning her running future. But as she ticked off the miles, opportunity presented itself. She tapped into her inner strength and remembered all the reasons she loved to race. Coming off Heartbeat Hill at mile 22, Linden took the lead and became the 2018 Boston Marathon champion and the first American woman to win...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDEN, DES LIN

Summary: LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LBJ

Summary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT

Contents: Sing me a song of the South (Joseph Natus) -- Soldier's farewell (American Quartet) -- Night trip to Buffalo (American Quartet) -- Dixie land (American Quartet) -- Bird imitations (Joe Belmont) -- Emmet's lullaby (cornet solo with Metropolitan Band) -- Farmyard medley (American Quartet) -- When the harvest days are over (American Quartet) -- Steamboat leaving the wharf at New Orleans (American...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Archeophone 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING PIN

Summary: Chronicles the life of Pete Seeger, the American singer/songwriter, who was a leader of the mid-20th century American folk music revival and wrote some of its best known songs. Also looks at his work as a labor and political activist and his experiences of being picketed, blacklisted, and banned from commercial television. Features archival footage and interviews with his family, including wife...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Live Nation Worldwide 2007

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PET

Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRE

Summary: Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Herbie 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HER

Wainwright, Loudon

Summary: The influential singer, songwriter, and actor shares meditative personal reflections on relationships and creativity, tracing the struggles with alcoholism, infidelity, and competitiveness that have challenged his celebrity family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAINWRIGHT, LOUDON, III WAI

Wainwright, Loudon

Contents: What gives (3:29) -- Tonya's twirls (3:38) -- New Street people (2:49) -- Carmine Street (2:57) -- O.J. (3:13) -- Leap of faith (2:53) -- Conspiracies (2:17) -- Christmas morning (3:36) -- Y2K (6:12) -- Number one (3:38) -- Bad man (3:19) -- Inaugural blues (3:18) -- Our boy Bill (3:09) -- Jesse don't like it (4:06) -- Pretty good day (4:20).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAI

Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Lunden, Joan

Summary: "When former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden was diagnosed with breast cancer, she set out to learn everything about it to help her survive. With seven children counting on her, giving up was not an option. After announcing her diagnosis on Good Morning America, people all over the country rallied around Joan as she went into Warrior mode. Within a few months, after losing her hair, Joan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUNDEN, JOAN LUN

Monson, Marianne

Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MON

Contents: Twist and shout (The Top Notes) -- Red hot (Billy the Kid Emerson) -- Shimmy like Kate (The Olympics) -- Roll over Beethoven (Chuck Berry) -- Reminiscing (Buddy Holly) -- Lend me your comb (Carl Perkins) -- Be-bop-a-lula (Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps) -- Nothin' shakin' (Eddie Fontaine) -- I'm gonna sit right down and cry (Roy Hamilton) -- Hallelujah I love her so (Ray Charles) -- Red sails...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJ

Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Contents: Disc 1. Tom Dooley (The Kingston Trio) -- Banana boat (Day-o) / Belafonte, Burgess, Attaway (Harry Belafonte) -- Marianne / Gilkyson, Miller, Dehr (Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders) -- Michael / Dave Fisher (The Highwaymen) -- Green green / McGuire, Sparks (New Christy Minstrels featuring Barry McGuire) -- Kumbaya (The Seekers) -- Baby the rain must fall / Sheldon, Bernstein (Glenn Yarbrough)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TIM

Connors, Kathleen

Summary: The US president is the face of the United States to the rest of the world. However, he or she doesn t have unlimited power within the country. The president has certain powers given by the Constitution, including the ability to make treaties, appoint some important government officials, and veto laws. Readers learn the many duties of the president in simple, clear language appropriate for both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 353 CON

Connors, Joanna

Summary: Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONNORS, JOANNA CON

Connors, Kathleen

Summary: The Founding Fathers made Congress two houses for a reason. The Senate gives every state equal representation, while the House of Representatives allows states with a larger population a bigger voice in government. Learning how this system works is an important piece of understanding how laws are made in the United States. This book breaks down the many jobs of Congress as well as the specific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 328 CON

Yomtov, Nel

Summary: "In October 1918, World War I had been raging in Europe for more than four years. When Major Charles Whittlesey led the U.S. 77th Division into France's Argonne Forest, his troops were soon surrounded and cut off from escape by German forces. Things became even more dangerous when the division came under friendly fire from U.S. forces. The troops' only hope was to send a carrier pigeon named...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J904.4 YOM

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: After her death at the hands of The Master and a summer vacation spent with her father, Buffy returns to Sunnydale in a strangely withdrawn and snappy mood. Determined to break off her relationship with Angel, she seems a little too eager to renew her Slayer training. She needs to get Angel out of her blood is proving to be harder than she thought. As the two draw even closer together, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Buffy