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Conduct of life Drama Conduct of life Juvenile films Exercise Drama Exercise Juvenile films Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Political leadership United States Case studies Presidents United States Biography Rescues Drama Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919Summary: Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLO RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
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Summary: DJ Lance Rock, four friendly monsters, and one robot become super spies, uncover mysteries, explore DJ Lance Rock's house, and teach preschoolers simple life lessons and encourage exercise through music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: Explores the thirty-sixth President's background, his personal outlook and behavior, his political career, and the political system that fostered his rise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, LYNDON GOOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: When the 1860 Republican National Convention chose Abraham Lincoln over three seasoned politicians, his rivals were shocked and humilated. Lincoln immediately went about mending fences by inviting them to join his cabinet. Historian Doris Kearns Godwin reveals how Lincoln brilliantly converted former political foes and used them to strengthen his presidency.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GoodwPearce, Erin
Summary: The Yo Gabba Gabba characters teach the importance of family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOPearce, Erin
Summary: DJ Lance Rock, four friendly monsters, and one robot teach preschoolers simple life lessons and encourage exercise through music as they celebrate Brobee's birthday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOPearce, Erin
Summary: DJ Lance Rock, four friendly monsters, and one robot teach preschoolers simple life lessons and encourage exercise through music as they learn about running a circus and having fun with their friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOPearce, Erin
Summary: DJ Lance Rock, four friendly monsters, and one robot teach preschoolers simple life lessons and encourage exercise through music. Contains four episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM GOOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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Summary: "There is a growing urgency, in classrooms as well as in publishing at large, to encompass the African American experience, African American thought and culture. Much of the recent headway has been made in the superhero framework, including Black Panther, but not only there. The tremendous success-in sales and prizes-of March, the trilogy based upon the life of Congressman John Lewis, is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 PEAGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated 2024
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Summary: The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOOSummary: Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2005
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Summary: Join DJ Lance and friends on a series of Christmas adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ncircle Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV YOGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.91 GOOGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2012
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Summary: Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s. When owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street, meant the realization of dreams. When everyone knew everyone else on the block and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. The corner...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS GOOSummary: Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes it may already be too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE JUSSummary: Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes it may already be too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Justice 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PG-13Summary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: It explores the life of one of history's most fascinating figures, a cowboy, soldier, statesman, conservationist, adventurer, reformer, author, and finally, U.S. president. Featuring over five hours of expert interviews, rich archival material, and vivid live-action sequences, this two-part documentary charts Roosevelt's journey from his sickly childhood to being a champion for the working man...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022