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Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOLorbiecki, Marybeth.
Summary: Presents the story of 12-year-old Elizabeth Becker, who was returning from India to America with her mother and siblings on the Titanic when the great ship collided with an iceberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910 LORHorton, James
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020Macy, Sue
Summary: Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center, and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LANSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Kluger, Richard
Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Summary: "In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JONHansen, Ron
Summary: A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANRauch, Georg
Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAUOrmond, Richard
Summary: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The National Portrait Gallery 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 SARGENT ORMSnyder, Brad
Summary: The inspiring story of Brad Snyder's journey from the Naval Academy to Afghanistan where he was blinded to winning Paralympic gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SNYDER, BRAD SNYTonatiuh, Duncan.
Summary: "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 inCalifornia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.11 TONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.11 TONReed, Miriam.
Summary: In 1916, Margaret Sanger made her legal stand against the repressive laws forbidding the distribution of obscene articles-including any information on contraception. Though embraced by feminists, socialists, birth-control advocates, and the working class, her ideas are still as controversial and valid today as they were ninety years ago. Margaret Sanger was a controversial fighter for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barricade Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.96 REESummary: The Fall of Fujimori is a character and interview-driven documentary that explores the volatile events that define Alberto Fujimori's decade-long reign of Peru: his meteoric rise from the son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FALPrendergast, Alan
Summary: An award-winning journalist presents the story of Philip Van Cise, a rookie District Attorney who fought the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption in Denver in the 1920s and how his experiences still resonate one century later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9788 PRESmith, Ali
Summary: "The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell)
Summary: Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual - and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. Where and how do we find meaning? Where does a writer find inspiration? How can personal, artistic, family, and community needs be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 SANParker, Robert B.
Summary: Elizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn up murdered one by one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Iran hostage crisis involved 52 American diplomats, Marines, and civilians held by force at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Unfolding like a political thriller, see how hostages' personal lives were torn apart and scrutinized through publicity, correspondents risked their lives to discover the truth about Iran, and military forces attempted to rescue the victims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TAKFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDRichards, Lynette
Summary: "It was April 1, 1873. In the middle of the night, Sarah Jane spotted flares off the coast of her island home. She woke her father, who quickly gathered their neighbours. Over the next several hours, rescuers pulled 429 traumatized survivors out of the wreckage of the SS Atlantic. But 535 people didn't survive, including Bill, a sailor. However, this story isn't about death--it's about living....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 RICDenver, John.
Summary: "John Denver is one of the most successful and best loved recording artists of the 20th century. His easy going manner, fine voice, superb songwriting and dedication to environmental issues all combined to build a huge global fanbase that has continued to grow since his untimely death in a plane crash in 1997"--Eagle-Rock.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ARODavis, Deborah
Summary: Shares the story behind the creation of Sargent's famous painting, which propelled the artist to fame but condemned his young subject to a lifetime of ridicule and self-loathing due to the work's perceived sexuality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group 2003