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Summary: From the Publisher: This history of Isle Royale traces almost 5,000 years of human efforts to harvest its natural resources. From the Paleo-Indians who extracted native copper to the 19th-century miners, fishermen, farmers, and sportsmen, this isle apart has been visited, mined, and plundered for centuries. Under the protection of the National Park Service since 1940, the island is returning to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 POIPoister, John J.
Summary: Supplies more than 300 recipes for a variety of punches and mixed drinks combining wines with fruit juices, liquors, liqueurs, and other ingredients
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1983
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2WINE POIJessie J
Contents: Ain't been done -- Burnin' up (feat. 2 Chainz) -- Sweet talker -- Bang bang (Jessie J + Ariana Grande + Nicki Minaj) -- Fire -- Personal -- Masterpiece -- Seal me with a kiss (feat. De La Soul) -- Said too much -- Loud (feat. Lindsey Stirling) -- Keep us together -- Get away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JESJessie J
Contents: It's My Party (3:40) -- Thunder (3:36) -- Square One (3:47) -- Sexy Lady (3:14) -- Harder We Fall (3:58) -- Breathe (3:58) -- I Miss Her (3:58) -- Daydreamin' (2:48) -- Excuse My Rude (3:07) -- Wild (UK Version) (3:54) -- Gold (3:25) -- Conquer The World (3:27) -- Alive (3:25) -- Unite (3:51) -- Hero (3:20) -- Magnetic (3:55) -- It's My Party (All About She UKG Remix) (3:44).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Records 2015
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Summary: A widowed professor, trying to raise his overachieving teenage daughter on his own, learns about relationships from a former student and an unexpected visit from his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMASummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Lee, Jessica J.
Summary: "While visiting her mother's family, a young girl notices she's never seen her mother so happy as they both explore this lush place, but when they return home, her mother's smile disappears until the girl shows her nature here can be wondrous, too"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 POIFièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)
Summary: "It's hard to balance protecting your child's innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. When--and how--do you approach racism with your children? How do you protect their physical and mental health while also preparing them for a country full of systemic racism? On the heels of 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' and 'Multiplication Is for White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 FIEWard, J. R. (Jessica Bird)
Summary: Wrath, the only purebred vampire left, has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents, but when one of his fighters is killed, leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate, Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's a few months after the end of Season One. Eliza Scarlet has solved her father's murder while her relationship with Inspector William Wellington, aka the Duke, continues to slowly simmer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: John and Emma, father and daughter, are thrust into a fantastical dream world battle between forces of good and evil, where they are forced to fight for John's soul and to save Emma from an eternal nightmare. They encounter unusual characters that exist only in their subconscious- or are they real?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Double Edge Films 2009
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY INKSummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCFièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)
Summary: Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfruit 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FIEFièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)
Summary: "Embrace the color of your skin and celebrate your identity. Finding the courage to live freely and authentically is not easy. This black teen book is designed to help you facilitate your creative drive, promote positive self-awareness, and boost your inner strength. Affirmations for Black teen boys. This black teen book is full of wisdom from Black male trailblazers who accomplished remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.23 FLEWard, J. R. (Jessica Bird)
Summary: "Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark warrior cloth as her brother. Because she is a fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side...and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either. When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARHerz, J. C. (Jessie Cameron)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.8 HERBurna Boy
Contents: I told them -- Normal -- On form -- Sittin' on top of the world / feat. 21 Savage -- Tested, approved & trusted -- Cheat on me feat. Dave -- Virgil -- Big 7 -- Dey play -- City boys -- Giza / feat. Seyi Vibez -- Jewels -- If I'm lying -- Thanks / feat. J. Cole -- Talibans II / Burna Boy, Byron Messia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE BURHerz, J. C. (Jessie Cameron)
Summary: "Explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die, [tracing] CrossFit's rise from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters, and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - vampire warriors, defenders of their race...John Matthew has been through his vampire transition and taken to the life of the Brotherhood with a vengeance, but he still can't shake the nightmare of his past and is unsure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARWard, J. R. (Jessica Bird)
Summary: "Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark warrior cloth as her brother. Because she is a fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side...and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either. When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Hardcover 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007