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Summary: Looks at the architecture, purpose, history, and symbolism of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 STIHiggins, Melissa
Summary: Explores the people and events which led to the formation of the Jamestown Colony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5425 HIGCaravantes, Peggy
Summary: Explore the reasons and nations behind the French and Indian War, otherwise known as the Seven Years War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.26 CARHamen, Susan E.
Summary: Describes how the original thirteen colonies came to form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Explores the tax policies and the colonies frustrations leading up to the Boston Tea Party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3115 MALFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2008
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Summary: Discusses the history of the Declaration of Independence, the people responsible for drafting it, and what the text states, in addition to exploring how conservators in the National Archives have repaired the original document.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.313 RISSchmidt, Maegan.
Summary: Investigates the people involved with and the events leading up to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.029 SCHEgger, Lara
Summary: Wrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one’s own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, image by image. Part confessional, part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EGGBaker, Deb
Summary: While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This film explores how Indris Seid Yimer and Emyet Assen Woraki's lives have been transformed since 1984, when their Wollo area community was engulfed in a famine described by BBC journalist Michael Buerk as "the closest thing to hell on Earth." Featuring contributions from entrepreneur Samuel Alemu and financier Ermyas Amelga and showcasing the UNESCO World Heritage site in Lalibela.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: For over 24 years, East Timor (now known as Timor Leste) endured a crushing occupation inflicted on them by neighboring Indonesia on the pretext of the fight against communism. The war was brought to a controversial conclusion in 1999. However, trauma from that period lives on as evidenced by the testimonies of Nelson Belo, Gregorio Saldanha, and Pascal Oliveira, survivors of the infamous 1991...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Elderly Nana Chinegowe is left to care for her three orphaned grandchildren. Other than occasional casual work as a day laborer, she has no mean to support them and they often go without food. This film tells the story of Malawi's ultra poor, and investigates the Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality, hunger, and poverty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Skurzynski, Gloria
Summary: While visiting the Everglades National Park with their parents, the Landon children uncover the mystery of dying manatees and learn important lessons about the natural environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUDunbar, Robert E. (Robert Everett)
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1994
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 808.53 DUNPhillips, Kathleen C.
Summary: Examines the basics of writing a story, from finding a title and beginning the work to completing and revising it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: How much power should the chief executive have? Though the powers of the presidency have expanded with the growth of the nation, the process has been anything but smooth. The prerogatives of the presidency are uncertain and their assertion is invariably contested. This program offers a close-up look at four presidencies that became the benchmarks in the development of executive power. It is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: Vietnam, one of the few Marxist-Leninist states, is still standing. The Communist Party of Vietnam faithfully represents the rights and interests of the working class and the nation. Just over thirty years after the country was devastated by war, leaving between one and two million dead, its economy is storming ahead. In 1993, poverty levels were at 58%; now that figure has dropped to 12%.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Larson, Gary.
Summary: Collection of the syndicated cartoon panel "The Far Side."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Comics LarsonJackson, Fleda Brown
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anhinga Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003
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Summary: While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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Summary: Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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Summary: While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon, a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002