Vise, David A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1247 VIS

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
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Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Vine, David

Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.00973 VIN

Vine, David.

Summary: American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon’s vast operations. But in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VIN

Summary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOV

Avis, Heather

Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text introduce Macy, whose conduct and bearing point to a kinder world where differences are celebrated and embraced.

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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVI

Harley, Avis.

Summary: Short poems about undersea life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.6 HAR

Van Sise, B. A.

Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779.2 VAN

Summary: After young Lucas shoots some ants with his water pistol they retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him to their size.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANT

Vyse, Stuart A.

Summary: "While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever. Not limited to just athletes and actors, superstitious beliefs are common among people of all occupations, educational backgrounds, and income levels. In this fully updated edition of Believing in Magic, renowned superstition expert Stuart Vyse investigates our tendency towards these...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 VYS

Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INS

Johnson, Lise A.

Summary: How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears from germs to natural disasters and everything in between.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 JOH

Liss, David

Summary: In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader desperate to recover his lost fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city, and confronts a ruthless adversary.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Summary: Music's most popular series is back with another collection featuring the biggest hits including chart toppers from the worlds of country, rock, rap, pop, and more.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOW

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Now

Liss, David

Summary: An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Liss, David

Summary: Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Liss, David.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LIS

Hine, David.

Summary: As the civil war rips apart the Marvel universe, the X-Men find themselves crumbling from the inside out and must admit defeat or finally start to fight back.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2007

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CIV

Summary: Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 CHI

Liss, David

Summary: Hired by his onetime fiancee to find her missing husband, Ethan Saunders, a former spy for Washington during the Revolution, follows a trail that leads him to Alexander Hamilton and to rebellious whiskey-makers fiercely opposed to a tax on their produc

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIS

Liss, David.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M LIS

Summary: A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2016

Carlson, Avis D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schori Press 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.1 CAR