Clinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSmith, Chas
Summary: A look at the high stakes world of surfing at Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore where, for two months every winter, its population triples and brings to the surface violence, drugs, illegal fights, and an undying love for the massive ocean waves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.3 SMIFrith, Margaret.
Summary: Biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, written as a child's school report.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine FrithFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An illustrated biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provides information on his childhood in Hyde Park, marriage to Eleanor, political career, years as president, and influence on American history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISONFrith, Margaret
Summary: Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: '03 Bonnie and Clyde (Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé Knowles) (3:23) -- Bump, bump, bump (B2K and P. Diddy) (3:59) -- Jenny from the block (Jennifer Lopez) (2:48) -- Don't mess with my man (Nivea featuring Brian and Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge) (3:33) -- Luv you better (LL Cool J) (3:27) -- Air Force Ones (Nelly) (4:30) -- Made you look (Nas) (3:21) -- Beautiful (Snoop Doog featuring Pharrell and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2003
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Selected, annotated and produced by Stephen Wade, the 30 tracks on this release were all recorded during 1933 and 1946. There are recordings from Kentucky, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TREContents: Strut Miss Lizzie (2:32) -- Old King Tut (2:57) -- It Had To Be You (3:17) -- Everybody Loves My Baby (3:08) -- You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) (2:51) -- Baby Won't You Please Come Home (3:47) -- Make Believe (2:47) -- Lovesick Blues (2:53) -- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:53) -- Who's Sorry Now (3:16) -- You'd Be Surprised (3:04) -- I'm Going...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
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Summary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: Germany's Third Reich made 1,200 feature films. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. More than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Moeller shows how contentious these films...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORContents: Frankie & Albert / Christ Smither -- Avalon, my home town / Bruce Cockburn -- Angels laid him away / Lucinda Williams -- Here am I, oh Lord, send me / Alvin Youngblood Hart -- Candy man / Stee & Justin Earle -- Monday morning blues / Peter Case & Dave Alvin -- Sliding Delta / Ben Harper -- Chicken / Geoff Muldaur -- Make me a pallet on your floor / Mark Selby -- Stagolee / Beck -- Since I've...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES AVASummary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLSummary: Childhood friends must reunite to fight an evil demon posing as a clown after having successfully defeated him as children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IT RATED RSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSeitz, Matt Zoller
Summary: A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office ... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 SEISummary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSmith, Jay M.
Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMIEngle, Margarita
Summary: During a Hindu festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, brothers Alu and Bhalu search for a dog they can honor with food and gratitude. Includes glossary of Nepali words and suggested activities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: A young woman is comes to a remote Chinese village to be a substitute teacher. Barely older than her students, the shy girl is charged with keeping the class intact for one month or she won't be paid. When one of her students disappears into the city to find work, the stubborn teacher is determined to follow the boy and bring him back to school. Once in the city, her simple peasant pleas fall...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000