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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHISummary: Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DUKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUKKay, Katty
Summary: "Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition--with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Girls can rule the world-- all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It's a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they're consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 KAYBaths
Contents: Worsening -- Miasma sky -- Ironworks -- Ossuary -- Incompatible -- No eyes -- Phaedra -- No past lives -- Earth death -- Inter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anticon 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATBaths
Contents: Yeoman -- Extrasolar -- Abscond -- Human bog -- Adam copies -- Lev -- I form -- Out -- Superstructure -- Wilt -- Coitus -- Broadback.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BATWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIContents: Disc 1. Can the circle be unbroken (Bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Mountain Dew (Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and The Prairie Ramblers) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW CouContents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COUSagal, Katey
Contents: Free fallin' -- For a dancer -- Follow the river -- Goodbye (featuring Jackson Browne) -- Love you but I don't know what to say -- Gonna take a miracle -- Orphan girl -- For free -- Secret heart -- Roses & cigarettes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAGSchultz, Katey
Summary: The three characters in Katey Schultz’s novel are each searching for the best way to be, the best way to live—all the while fighting cultural, societal, and political forces far beyond their control. As their paths intersect over the span of three days, Still Come Home explores how their decisions will forever alter each other’s lives. Aaseya, an ambitious, educated Afghan girl, struggles to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apprentice House Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchultz, Katey.
Contents: While the rest of America's at the mall -- With the burqa -- Home on leave -- My son wanted a notebook -- Poo mission -- Refugee -- Into pure bronze -- Just the dog and me -- Amputee -- Permanent wave -- That Sunday morning feeling -- Getting perspective -- WIA -- MIA KIA -- The ghost of Sanchez -- Checkpoint -- First commander -- Pressin' the flesh -- Stars over Afghanistan -- Deuce out --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apprentice House, Loyola University Maryland 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Schultz 2013Usitalo, Kath
Summary: How did a sparsely populated landmass surrounded by Great Lakes and completely separated from the rest of the state become the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? At the end of each winter what do Yoopers -those hardy souls who call the UP home -measure with a 30-foot tall thermometer? And should you put ketchup or gravy on a pasty? You ll find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 USICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 USIWhitehead, Colson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhitehead, Jeffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.976 WHIContents: I fall to pieces / Natalie Cole -- Why can't he be you / Norah Jones -- Back in baby's arms / Amy Grant -- Crazy / Diana Krall -- Strange / Michelle Branch -- She's got you / Lee Ann Womack -- Leavin' on your mind / k.d. lang -- Walkin' after midnight / Terri Clark -- You're stronger than me / Rebecca Lynn Howard -- Faded love / Patty Griffin -- So wrong / Jessi Alexander -- Sweet dreams (of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Nashville 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY REMPollitt, Katha.
Summary: With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt writes about the death of her father; the sad but noble final days of a leftist study group of which she was a member; and the betrayal and heartbreak inflicted by a man who seriously deceived her. (Her infinitely patient, gentle driving instructor points out her weakness--"Observation, Katha, observation!") She also offers a candid view of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 POLHowes, Katey
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to make everything from a tower to a charitable donation, alone or with neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOWWhitehead, Colson
Summary: ""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "In THE NOBLE HUSTLE Colson Whitehead does for participatory journalism what he did for zombie novels in ZONE ONE: Take one literary genius, add $10,000 and a seat at the World Series of Poker, and stir. On one level, Colson Whitehead's THE NOBLE HUSTLE is a familiar species of participatory journalism - a longtime neighborhood poker player, Colson was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014