Summary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Williams, Mike

Summary: For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2015

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Summary: Dr. William Davis describes the Wheat Belly weight loss program based on his New York Times bestseller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2014

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Gilliam, Terry

Summary: A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperDesign 0000

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Summary: Based on his New York Times bestseller, Dr. William Davis describes the Wheat Belly weight loss program emphasizing wheat and grain free healthy eating.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2014

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Summary: Self-help author Dr. Wayne Dyer and physician Dr. William Davis discuss the wheat belly weight loss program, the obesity epidemic, and the relationship between wheat and diseases endemic to modern life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2014

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LANGEWIESCHE, WILLIA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PANTH 0000

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Hilliam, David.

Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004

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Hilliam, Paul.

Summary: A discussion of the tactics and technology of warfare during the Middle Ages, including the tradition of personal combat, the use of armor, castles-and-siege weapons, and the dominance of the mounted knight.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004

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Tian

Summary: "Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020

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Kiki

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Ecco Press 1996

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Summary: DNA testing companies are trending nationally, with over 30 million Americans hoping to receive clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health -- not knowing the results can be misleading, or not considering that family secrets can tear apart relationships. The biggest risk, however, may be what these companies do with our information once they have it, so this program objectively...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Collins, Miki

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alpine Publications 1991

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Aliki.

Summary: Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988

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Soma, Taki

Summary: Taki Soma’s life has taken unexpected turns on top of twists over the years, a journey that starts in Japan in the early 1980s and spins through traumatic family loss, a childhood murder, drugs, comics, medical mysteries, true love, fertility, pets, and zombies. All of that and more is depicted here in a series of brilliant, deceptively simple short comics chronicling one young artist’s blazing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Hill Publishing 2022

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Dillian, Jared.

Summary: A former trader recounts the final years of Lehman Brothers, discussing the outrageous personalities of his co-workers, his own battles with mental illness, and the company's activities during the economic collapse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2011

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Johnstone, Willliam W

Summary: Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishign Corp 2006

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Phelps,M.William

Summary: Details the case of Lisa Montgomery, who murdered eight-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and kidnapped her unborn baby, revealing a woman with a history of sexual abuse, abandonment, and desperation that molded her into a sociopath.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp 2006

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