Robertson, Kay
Summary: Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIRoberts, Steven V.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.9 ROBSummary: Meet the Robertsons, who run Duck Commander, a homegrown mom-and-pop turned sporting empire selling top-of-the-line duck calls and decoys out of salvaged swamp wood. Dressed in camouflage and bandanas, this crew shows the world how a family can work together and be a success at the same time. Their booming business employs half the neighborhood, and each day brings a new set of challenges, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUCBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRColeman, Melissa.
Summary: With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, MELISSA COLKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattelesnakes, and sand in Eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick discovers that disappoinment, isolation, and danger can't compete with the generosity of their rural community, the strength of family bonds, and the faithfulness of the God who planted in their hearts the dream of carving a refuge out of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 KIRWinstead, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2685 WINBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuRobertson, Jep
Summary: Jep Robertson, the youngest son of Duck Commander Phil Robertson, and his wife, Jessica, open up about their personal trials, their early years together, and the challenges that might have destroyed them both had the grace of God not intervened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 791.45 ROBPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POESummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWATaylor, Kendall
Summary: Explores Zelda Fitzgerald's affair with French aviator Edouard Jozan, the man on whom F. Scott Fitzgerald based his famous character Jay Gatsby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TAYSummary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "'They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.' Thats all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasnt enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROSSchiffer, Miriam B.
Summary: Stella brings her two fathers to school to celebrate Mother's Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUNielsen, Larry A.
Summary: "In 'Nature's Allies', Larry Nielsen profiles the lives of eight pioneers-- John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland-- all individuals from modest backgrounds who have influenced the course of conservation over the past century, showing us better ways to live in balance with nauture. Some famous and some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIEOld Gays (Group)
Summary: Ranging in age from 67 to 80, Mick, Jessay, Robert, and Bill are survivors whose lives have been transformed by sweeping cultural change. It was their generation that was devastated by AIDS, a health crisis that deprived us of so many brilliant, creative lives, including many of their friends. They offer their collective wisdom on a rainbow of topics, including coming out, sex, gay liberation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023