Summary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILSummary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEASnyder, Scott
Summary: "Batman's city is burning. In the months since Commissioner Jim Gordon fell from grace, criminal empires have risen. Martial law has been declared. Arkham Asylum has been emptied. Bruce Wayne has been bankrupted. And Gotham City has been torn apart. Batman and his allies have fought their way up the food chain and put down a slew of madmen and masterminds. Yet each hard-earned victory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IJacobs, James Ripley
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorn Books 1969
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Wall Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.25 SISWilson, James W. (James Wesley)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9676 WILDisney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records/Pixar 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW CarEiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISClavreul, Denis
Summary: "An artist's uniquely personal journey across Audubon's America In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.092 CLACopeland, Wesley
Summary: Teaches players how to build fifty different objects in Minecraft, including houses, vehicles, farms, and castles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 794.8 COPNorton, James R.
Summary: "From the founders of the popular food website Heavy Table comes Lake Superior Flavors, a celebration of food culture around the shores of the greatest of the Great Lakes. Author James Norton and photographer Becca Dilley take readers on a culinary tour around Lake Superior, hitting high-traffic tourist spots and cultural institutions as well as off-the-beaten-path discoveries" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 NORRiley, James Whitcomb
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1934
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RILDisney
Summary: When Nemo gets caught on his way to school, his father comes to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DISDisney
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DISDisney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Enterprises, Inc. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DISNEDisney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUVENILE DISCopeland, Wesley
Summary: "The world of Minecraft is full of wonder, discovery, and most of all, fun! But it can also be dangerous, even for the most battle-hardened players. This book will keep you one step ahead of all the mobs and creepers who might try to bring your adventures to a deadly end. Inside you'll find info on all the best gear, plus combat tips and advice from veteran players and streamers. We've go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Future Publishing Limited 2018
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Summary: "What does a seed need to grow into a flower or vegetable? In A Surprise Garden, your child learns some "fun-damentals" of gardening when Rabbit presents each of his friends with surprise seeds to plant."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Advance Publishers, L.C. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DisneWilson, Jamia
Summary: "Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint off The Quarto Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.42 WILNamie, Gary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 NAMTargoff, Ramie
Summary: "A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024