Summary: In sharing their stories, uses every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing to reveal long-buried secrets. Spanning the globe, the series compiles family trees that trace throughout the United States and Canada; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Germany, Poland, Ireland, Russia, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2012

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Summary: After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 1997

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Summary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003

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Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003

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Summary: A 10-year high school reunion creates some surprises for a group of friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999

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Summary: When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver knows it's up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad, who wrongly believes the marshal is responsible for his father's death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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Mirah

Contents: Goat shepherd -- Oxen hope -- Turned the heat off -- Gold rush -- Fleetfoot ghost -- I am the garden -- No direction home -- 24th St. -- LC -- Radiomind.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Contents: Paranoid cat (Chris Forsyth) -- Between radnor and sunrise (William Tyler) -- Miniature dwellings II (Sam Moss) -- San Cristobal de las casas (Nick Jonah Davis) -- Song for Eugene (Pat O'Connell) -- Our home beyond the river (Tyler Ramsey) -- Rose March (Micah Blue Smaldone) -- Birds on the lake (Mike Fekete) -- We meet on the level (Aaron Sheppard) -- Jemmy Steel (C Joynes).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tompkins Square 2010

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O'Donnel, Kim.

Summary: Offers vegetarian recipes for special occasions intended to be hearty and substantial enough to satisfy devoted meat eaters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2012

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Farah, Boyah J.

Summary: A searing memoir of American racism from a Somalian-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Blacks in his adopted land, the United States."No one told me about America." Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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Mirah

Contents: Counting -- Information -- Lake ocean -- Lighthouse -- Blinded by the pretty light -- Ordinary day -- Hot hot -- Love jetty -- Sundial -- Energy.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Vincent, Norah.

Summary: Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. He begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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Dooley, Norah.

Summary: A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1991

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McClintock, Norah

Summary: Would-be reporter Cady investigates racism and family secrets in a small Indiana town.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015

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Jones, Norah

Contents: Chasing pirates (2:41) -- Even though (3:52) -- Light as a feather (3:53) -- Young blood (3:38) -- I wouldn't need you (3:30) -- Waiting (3:31) -- It's gonna be (3:12) -- You've ruined me (2:45) -- Back to Manhattan (4:10) -- Stuck (5:16) -- December (3:06) -- Tell yer mama (3:26) -- Man of the hour (2:57).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2009

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McClintock, Norah

Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jojo returns to his neighborhood after serving time for a violent crime."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020

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Coral

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021

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