Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Summary: A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS YAN

Cohan, George M. (George Michael Cohan)

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: George M. Cohan Music Pub. Co. Inc. 1931

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Hannigan, Kate

Summary: "Celebrate the inventor of the dishwasher in this inspiring STEM/STEAM picture book biography about Josephine Garis Cochrane, the brains behind one of the world's most-used kitchen appliances."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2023

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

Summary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Davis, Bridgett M

Summary: An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAV

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, FANNIE DAV

Summary: Bonus features include fear of loud noises, finding the right canine professional and vet tips to help your dog's exercise routine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cesar Millan, Inc. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 COM

Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)

Summary: In the Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980 Snoopy launches his beagle scout treks. Valentine's day sparks an unlikely romance, and Lucy promises she will finally let Charlie Brown kick the football!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagrphics Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SCH

Fenster, J. M. (Julie M.)

Summary: A brilliant look at how the indomitable and enlightened Louis Howe became the mega-advisor of the Roosevelt Clan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWE, LOUIS M FEN

Contents: Crazy hair day -- and more funny school adventures. Crazy hair day / written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg -- Petunia / written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- How do dinosaurs go to school? / written by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague -- Monty / written and illustrated by James Stevenson -- Will I have a friend? / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Lillian Hoban.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CRA

Foerstner, Abigail

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.99 FOE

Summary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIM

Spinelli, Angelo M.

Contents: Angelo Spinelli's narrative and photographs -- North Africa -- Captured! -- Stalag IIIB-Fürstenberg/Oder -- Stalag IIIA-Luckenwalde -- Liberation and home -- Civilian Spinelli and his photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 SPI

Epstein, Jennifer Cody

Summary: "A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPS

Nainy, Mamta

Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAI

Zitz, Michael

Summary: Warren Buffett's big sister Doris, known as the Sunshine Lady, derives such joy from helping others on a one on one basis that her own hard life, including estrangement from her own children, has never hardened her heart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUFFETT, DORIS ZIT

Klam, Julie

Summary: "Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLA

Diski, Jenny

Summary: In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the cliches and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DISKI, JENNY DIS

Feigel, Lara

Summary: "A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEIGEL, LARA FEI

Horton, James

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020

Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)

Summary: Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips published in newspapers from 1991 to 1992, including both daily and Sunday strips.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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