West, Delno C.
Summary: Presents the backgrounds of such American symbols as Uncle Sam and the Liberty Bell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.92 WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America West,Dent, Thomas C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.043 DENFritz, Jean.
Summary: Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 730 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 730 FRISummary: 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 TODDelt, Morgan.
Contents: Make my grey brain green (2:51) -- Barbarian kings (3:52) -- Beneath the black and purple (3:10) -- Mr. Carbon Copy (2:53) -- Obstacle eyes (3:28) -- Little zombies (3:14) -- Chakra sharks (1:38) -- Sad sad trip (3:57) -- Backwards Bird Inc. (3:39) -- Tropicana (2:09) -- Main title sequence (2:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trouble in Mind Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DELSummary: Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHIMay, Dent
Contents: Hotel stationery -- I could use a miracle -- Didn' get the invite -- Sea salt & caramel -- Bungalow heaven -- Bless your heart -- Full speed ahead -- Pour another round -- Imagination -- Late checkout -- L.A. river -- Easier said than done
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAYDelt, Morgan
Contents: I don't wanna see what's happening outside (4:13) -- The system of 1000 lies (2:48) -- Another person (3:00) -- Sun powers (3:46) -- The age of the birdman (3:31) -- Mssr. Monster (3:53) -- A gun appears (3:11) -- The lowest of the low (4:31) -- Escape capsule (5:16) -- Some sunsick day (5:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DELDent, Huntley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5979 DENDent, Lizzy
Summary: Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend's Audi--the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that's what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DENSummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMEDent, Dorothy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4 Dent 2002Dent, Jim.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Jim Dent pens the compelling story of how a black and white player came together to break the color barrier in Texas football in 1965. Jerry LeVias and Bill Bradley bonded as friends at the Big 33 high school all-star game, producing a dramatic finish that fans still talk about. Jim Dent takes the reader to the heart of Texas football with the incredible story...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 DENDent, Lizzy
Summary: Everyone imagines running away from their life at some point. But Birdy has actually done it-- and the life she has run to belongs to her best friend Heather. The only problem: she hasn't told Heather. But the summer job at the highland Scottish hotel that her world class wine-expert friend ditched turns out to be a lot more than Birdy bargained for. Can she survive a summer pretending to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENSummary: The story of in inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Television Studios 2002
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHIFest, Joachim C.
Summary: An unemployed architect when Hitler came to power in 1933, Albert Speer was soon designing the Third Reich's most important buildings. In 1942 Hitler appointed him Armaments Minister and he quadrupled production, an astonishing achievement that kept the German Army in the field and prolonged the war. Yet Speer's life was full of contradictions. The only member of the Nazi elite with whom Hitler...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 SPEER, ALBERT FESDent, Harry S.
Summary: Examines current economic trends in conjunction with general demographic trends in order to predict the continued failure of federal stimulus plans and a near-future deflationary crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 DENSummary: 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 TRESummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCast, P. C.
Summary: After settling in at the House of Night and becoming more comfortable with her vast powers, fledgling vampire Zoey Redbird faces a horrible crisis as human teenagers are becoming victims of a wave of murders and the House of Night becomes the prime suspect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CASSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Hest, Amy.
Summary: In a series of letters to her new dog, fourth-grader Annie Rossi relates her daily exploits and remembers her mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HESD West C Ornadel
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Piccadilly Music Corp. 1960
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Stand-up comedians tell stories from their lives as comics. Includes stories from Ben Bailey (Cash Cab), Dean Edwards (SNL), D. C. Benny (Comedy Central, HBO), Big Jay Oakerson (Comedy Central), Vic Henley (The Late Show), and Jess Wood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bseen Media LLC 2013