Woodfox, Albert

Summary: Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019

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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODFOX, ALBERT WOO

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOL

Summary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESC

Hubert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 HUB

Summary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUN

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 KEN

Summary: A political documentary of the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaigns in which Senator John F. Kennedy upset Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PRI

Halbert, Frederic

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HAL

Wilbert, Robert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Focus 2011

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 WIL

Albers, Susan

Summary: Albers has discovered that the key to successful weight loss is not physical exercise, calorie counting, or willpower-- it's emotional intelligence (EI). Learn how to use EI to strengthen your relationship with food, and get out of the vicious cycle of dieting failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 ALB

Hunter, Alberta.

Contents: Two cigarettes in the dark (2:55) -- What shall I do? (2:39) -- Soon (3:01) -- Where the mountains meet the sea (2:50) -- A lonely singing fool (2:43) -- Long may we love (2:55) -- Miss Otis regrets (she's unable to lunch today) (3:10) -- Be still my heart (3:02) -- Stars fell on Alabama (2:56) -- Two little flies on a lump of sugar (2:47) -- I travel alone (3:00).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: DRG Records 1981

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HUN

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOO

Albers, Susan.

Summary: " In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating-leading to a healthier, happier life! If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.85 Alb

Aubert, Rosemary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUB

Alburt, Lev.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.12 ALB

Aubert, Dany

Summary: Martin and his mother talk about Martin's worries about starting school, while his little sister wishes that she was old enough to go, too.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AUB

Halbert, Sam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Walbert, Kate

Summary: "They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Alberts, Laurie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Alberti, Enigma

Summary: Anna Strong, a member of the secret Culper Ring, found ingenious ways to communicate top-secret messages to her fellow spies, helping to save the American colonies from British rule.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 ALB

Alberti, Rafael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 861.62 ALB