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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Kerry, John 1943- Large type books Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Smith, Alfred Emanuel 1873-1944 United States Warner, Harry Morris 1881-1958 Warner, Jack L 1892-1978Green, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Larry Page. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PAGE GRESummary: 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 MAKRubin, Susan Goldman
Summary: Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 RUBSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAGottler, Archie
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mills Music Inc. 1941
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBecker, Elizabeth
Summary: "One spent 23 days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Kate Webb were the first female frontline journalists in the history of US war reporting. Over the course of the Vietnam War they challenged the rules and expectations imposed on them, all in an effort to get the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BECMar, Alex
Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MARLoh-Hagan, Virginia
Summary: "The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Larry "Seven Fingers" Itliong, a Filipino American labor organizer, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ITLSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSalamon, Gayle
Summary: "The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SALPaley, Rebecca
Summary: Recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the colonies and the British closer to war, using the stories of Felicity Merriman and how she became caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Page, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things--like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious and creative. He's the best artist in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PAGCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohKari, Doug
Summary: "On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KARGolway, Terry
Summary: "The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership--between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic--that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New Deal In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban machines--representing Catholics and Jews, ironworkers and seamstresses, from the tenements of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 GOLBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENApel, Otto F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Kerry, John
Summary: "John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life--from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state for four years--in this revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history. [This book] is John Kerry's candid personal story. A Yale graduate, Kerry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERRY, JOHN KERPyle, Richard.
Summary: Relates the circumstances behind the deaths of four combat photographers in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down over Laos, and the efforts to locate the crash site and the photographers' remains twenty-seven years later.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 PYLLoyie, Oskiniko Larry
Summary: Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LOYIE LOYSummary: "Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack--the Warner brothers--turned a storefront that used a sheet for a screen into a dream factory rooted in the credo of educate, entertain and enlighten. In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker (and Harry's granddaughter) Cass Warner Sperling tells a story of sibling rivalry, social conscience, and the silver screen."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010