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Action heroes African American legacy recordings series African American life series American heroes Columbia contemporary American religion series Contemporary American fiction Contemporary arts series Contemporary playwrights series Contemporary quilting series Stories of famous AmericansPaley, Grace.
Summary: Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBoyle, T. Coraghessan.
Summary: Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYWelch, James
Summary: In 1870 the Lone Eaters, a small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are living in the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The extinction of the Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the form of that end is in question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 GILSeager, Richard Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 SEAFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINMoon, Elaine Latzman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTJacques, Geoffrey.
Contents: Saturday night fish fry -- Bursting out all over -- Intrusion -- Sepia-tones footage -- Commercial euphoria -- White supremacy is not eternal -- After midnight -- The present "crisis" -- Stomp -- Mesopotamia -- James Baldwin -- Well you needn't -- The wonderful fantasies of the colonized -- Giant -- The blab of the pave -- Supporting architecture -- Just for a thrill -- Reverie -- Evaluation --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JACKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENContents: Black woman -- Texas easy street -- One dollar bill -- Goin' down the road feelin' bad -- Tyin' knots in the devil's tail -- Home on the range -- Ol' Proc -- John Henry y los vaqueros -- Po' Howard ; Gwine dig a hole to put the devil in -- Knox County stomp -- He's a lone ranger -- Steel pony blues -- Little Joe the wrangler -- Charmin' Betsy -- Goodbye Old Paint -- Lonesome old river blues --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FLEFingeroth, Danny.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superheroes, the X-Men, including information on their creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 IngerSummary: Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SONBlount, Jake
Contents: The Psalms of the Sentinel. Take me to the water/Prayer (3:38) ; The downward road (3:36) ; Didn't it rain (3:05) ; Tangle eye blues (3:51) -- The Psalms of the Gravedigger. Parable (2:20) ; Death have mercy (2:59) ; City called Heaven (4:52) ; They are waiting for me (4:27) -- The Psalms of the Teacher. Psalms (2:54) ; Just as well to get ready, you got to die (3:08) ; Give up the world (4:09)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BLOForget, Thomas.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Captain America, including information on his creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 ForgeFein, Eric.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superheroes, the Fantastic Four, including information on their creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 791.4 FEIFein, Eric.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, the Incredible Hulk, including information on his creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 Fein,Kupperberg, Paul.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Spider-Man, including information on his creators, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 KuperGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAMoulton, Candy
Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonDittman, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 DITLakin, Pat.
Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAKBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: "A juvenile biography of the famous Native American woman who helped the Jamestown settlers"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2009