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Summary: Examines the many facets of America's most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present. This book, designed to accompany the traveling Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary exhibition celebrating Franklin's 300th birthday, includes essays by ten prominent scholars that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 BEN

Stiefel, Chana

Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STI

Raúl the Third

Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Berger, Martin A.

Summary: Photographers shot millions of pictures of the black civil rights struggle between the close of World War II and the early 1970s, yet most Americans today can recall just a handful of images that look remarkably similar. In the popular imagination, the civil rights movement is remembered in dramatic photographs of protestors attacked with police dogs and fire hoses, firebombs and shotguns, tear...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Of California 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.119 FRE

Van Vleet, Carmella

Summary: Shares the story of renowned astronaut and distinguished scientist Kathryn Sullivan, describing how she defied the conventions of her childhood to pursue interests previously limited to boys and how she became the first woman to walk in space.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SUL

Bowman, Leslie Greene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1990

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745 BOW

Summary: In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tate Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 SOU

Goldberg, Vicki.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Photographic Arts 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 GOL

Summary: Teenage secret agent Cody Banks must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue and left the States with a mind-control microchip. Cody masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist who lives in London and is the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way, Cody hooks up with a demoted agent and a teenage Scotland Yard operative.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AGE

Thomas, William G.

Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO

Kaplan, Wendy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Kaplan

Shulman, Mark

Summary: "Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. Franklin's research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020

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Summary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BEN

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEN

Levy, Dana Alison

Summary: "Scientists who collect microbes from surfers' skin, who use radar sensors to gather data miles away, who combat inequality by pushing for cleaner air policies. Each with their own story, all working to make life better for future generations. Celebrated author Dana Alison Levy profiles 16 people, all studying different elements of the earth's landscape, animals, and climate, who defy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 LEV

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 016.909 NEW

Summary: TV's most anticipated wedding day has arrived! And since dealing with death is part of their jobs, it probably won't part FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth and quirky forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, aka Bones. But Bones and Booth must still address a serial killer's threat to murder five people if the couple marries. Meanwhile, they work to solve murder mysteries as they devote...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BON

Summary: While she tackles some of her most gruesome homicide cases yet, Dr. Temperance Brennan also faces the delicate demands of motherhood and a deepening relationship with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. The thrills escalate this season when a pastor's wife goes missing and shipping clerks go postal, but the biggest shocker of all comes when clues left by a deranged cyber genius tag Brennan as a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BON

Summary: Brennan's uncanny forensic skills help resolve even grislier cases, including a retirement home murder, a possible death by robot, and the slaying of close friend. Along the way, family tragedy strikes and Booth lands in the crosshairs of a serial killer. The fascinating storylines, heart and humor of these twelve episodes wrap of the final season of this hit series.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BON

Lupton, Ellen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 Lupton

Robbins, Dean

Summary: Introduces the woman mathematician whose childhood love of numbers led to her prestigious education and contributions at NASA while explaining how her handwritten codes proved essential throughout numerous space missions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAM

Summary: Six months after Bones and Booth leave their jobs to start a new life, Booth goes missing. Desperate for distraction, Bones takes a murder case, and is devastated to learn the deceased's identity. Featuring the highly anticipated Bones and Sleepy Hollow crossover event.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BON

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FRE

Contents: Northeast by Southwest : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, and New Mexico / Richard B. Woodward -- Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams : subjects of self / Barbara Buhler Lynes -- What Adams saw : Ansel Adams and modern art in America / Sandra S. Phillips.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.3092 GEO

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.922 BOW

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