Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENMichaels, Al
Summary: No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. During the course of his forty-plus-year career, he has logged more hours on live primetime network television than anyone in history, having covered all four major sports championships -- the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA finals, and the Stanley Cup final -- as well as the Olympic Games, the Triple Crown, and many...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MICHAELS, AL MicMichaels, Al.
Summary: In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports. No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. Over the course of his forty-plus year career, he has logged more hours...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHAELS, AL MICSummary: The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, suffering from syphilis and dementia, comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAPWestheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola)
Summary: "America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 921 WESTHEIMER, RUTH WESBernheimer, Jim.
Summary: "My name is Mike Ross. I'm a Ferryman. I help people with ghost problems, or ghosts with people problems. Funny thing, no one ever helps me with my problems. It turns out the dead still hold a good deal of influence over the world, and they don't want to give it up. I'm in way over my head. Fortunately, I'm too stubborn to quit."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Springbrook Digital Publishing 2010
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Summary: Children come to visit a little girl who lives all alone inside a castle that is housed inside of a museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERWertheim, Margaret.
Summary: Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 WERWertheim, Stephen
Summary: "For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WERWestheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola)
Summary: Dr. Ruth shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESTHEIMER, RUTH WESTuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
Summary: The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.025 TUCWertheim, L. Jon.
Summary: In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Centre Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. Yet in the last few moments of daylight, swashbuckling Spaniard Rafael Nadal prevailed in what was, according to the author, "essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 WERAl Dexter
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Edwin H. Morris 1943
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBarnes, Al
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlo 1976
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BARCall number: MI 977.464 BAR
1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977.464 BAR
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BAR
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 977 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: MI 977.4 BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local BarnesCoco, Al.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WANT Pub. Co. 1985
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Summary: "In 1925 a sailboat named Bernida wins the inaugural Port Huron to Mackinac Race. She wins again in 1927. But then for decades the boat is neglected and passed from owner to owner. In 2012 with new owners, the ship once more enters the race and wins"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DECEwing, Al
Summary: The God of Mischief is stronger, smarter, sexier and just plain sneakier than ever before. As Asgardia's one-man secret service, he's ready to lie, cheat, steal, bluff and snog his way through the twistiest, turniest and most treacherous missions the All-Mother can throw at him - starting with a heart-stopping heist on Avengers Tower! And that's just the beginning as Loki takes on Lorelei in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 324 FRAFranken, Al.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.931 FRAFranken, Al.
Summary: In these pages Al reveals the alarming story of how Bush beat Kerry with his "fear, smear, and queers", and then claimed a nonexistent mandate. Tom DeLay is a horror show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRAGreen, Al
Contents: Side one. Tired of being alone / A. Green (2:43) -- Call me (Come back home) / A. Green, W. Mitchell, A. Jackson (3:04) -- I'm still in love with you / A. Green, W. Mitchell, A. Jackson (3:14) -- Here I am (Come and take me) / A. Green, M. Hodges (4:15) -- Love and happiness / A. Green, M. Hodges (5:04) -- side two. Let's stay together / A. Green, W. Mitchell, A. Jackson (3:18) -- I can't get...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: "This guide explores one of the great traditions of Western painting: alla prima, or direct, painting. Bold brushwork and a painterly surface are the hallmarks of this renowned technique, and one of the great masters of alla prima was Arthur DeCosta, the legendary Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts teacher." "In Alla Prima, author Al Gury reveals the step-by-step lessons he learned in his years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751 Gury 2008Hirt, Al.
Contents: Bourbon street parade (4:37) -- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? (6:12) -- Java (2:14) -- Struttin with some barbeque (5:30) -- Basin street blues (7:07) -- Stardust (4:10) -- When the saints go marching in (6:08) -- Just a closer walk with thee (4:48) -- Echoes of Harlem (4:06) -- Walkin' (2:16) -- South Rampart street parade (2:21) -- Cotton candy (1:58) -- New Orleans (4:06) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ProJazz 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIRHoff, Al
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997