Van Dusen, Gerald C.
Summary: In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 VANSummary: Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion. Henry then marries Anne of Cleves, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TUDSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWIDuren, Van
Contents: Grow yourself up -- Chemical fire -- Waiting -- Yellow light (live)-- Tennessee, I'm trying -- Positive (wedding song) -- Andy, please / Duren Stephens -- Make a scene -- Torn in half (live) -- Just you tell me (live at Ardent Studios) -- Catcher in the rain / Good question -- Jane / Good question
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WAIGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When Uncle Al is kidnapped by Dr. Kron-Tox and sent to prehistoric times, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot try to use Uncle Al's latest invention, the Time-A-Tron, to rescue him, and learn firsthand about the origins of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GRESummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When Beeper accidentally releases the escape hatch to the Time-a-Tron, the time travelers must protect themselves from the world's most fearsome creature, Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Still trying to stop the evil Dr. Kron-Tox, Andrew, his cousin Judy, Thudd the robot, and Beeper find Uncle Al in the Ice Age, where they encounter prehistoric animals, birds, and people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Lost in an Australian rainforest, Andrew, Judy, and Thudd the robot, who are still the size of insects, must evade Rhinoceros beetles, tarantulas, flesh-eating plants, and a host of other threats as they make their way toward the village where Uncle Al will meet them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: While bouncing through Earth's prehistory in a malfunctioning time machine, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot meet Dr. Kron-Tox's nephew, Beeper, and nearly lose the Time-a-Tron in a tsunami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Still trying to save the giant squid from Soggy Bob, ten-year-old Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot nearly meet disaster at the Challenger Deep, the deepest place in the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot wind up at a garbage dump when Andrew's latest invention, the Goa Constrictor, shrinks them to the size of beetles and swallows them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGetz, Stan
Contents: Disc 1, 3/03/91, 1st set. Stan Getz announcement ; I'm okay ; Gone with the wind ; First song ; Allison's waltz ; Stablemates -- Disc 2, 3/03/91, 2nd set. Autumn leaves ; Yours and mine ; (There is no) Greater love ; People time ; The surrey with a fringe on top ; Soul eyes -- Disc 3, 3/04/91, 1st set. Tuning ; You don't know what love is ; You stepped out of a dream ; Soul eyes ; I wish you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunnyside 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GETVan Doren, Paul
Summary: "In the tradition of bestsellers such as Shoe Dog, Authentic is a surprisingly candid, compelling memoir by a high school dropout who went on to establish one of the world's most iconic brands. You may not know their creator, but you certainly know the shoes: for more than a generation, Vans shoes have been synonymous with cool. Now in this refreshingly candid memoir, meet Paul Van Doren, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN DOREN, PAUL VANGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When an electric fish shrinks Andrew, Judy, and Thudd to the size of bacteria, they end up being injected by a mosquito into Uncle Al's bloodstream where they must battle germs, parasites, and white blood cells.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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Summary: After escaping from the belly of a whale, Andrew and his cousin Judy face more dangers from their underwater nemesis, Soggy Bob, in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When Andrew and Judy, still the size of beetles, are carried into a cave, they learn more than they ever wanted to know about the bats and bugs that live there from Thudd the Robot--and personal experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANSummary: Peer over the edge of the Spider-Verse, at five different realities ... and five daringly different spiders! Spider-Man Noir returns, as the Peter Parker of the 1930s finds himself up against Mysterio, and knee-deep in the biggest Spider-Man event of all! What is the secret of Dr. Aaron Aikman, the Spider-Man? Who are the villainous Red Eye and Naahmurah ... and can Aaron live through Morlun's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC 2015
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Summary: Based on a real incident that occurred in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine, this rhyming story recounts what happens when a really big flatbed truck carrying a mysterious, covered load across a small island gets stuck on a tight curve and blocks traffic in both directions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANVan Dusen, Chris.
Summary: Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VanCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC VANVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: It's a summer day so beautiful and peaceful that Hattie, paddling in her canoe in the middle of a lake, can't help but sing. In the deep water below, a creature is lurking. He's huge and green, with a long, long neck and he rarely leaves his lair. But on this day, he hears something sweet and inviting. He hears a song. What happens when the creature rises to the surface is nothing short of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017