Sons of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774Summary: With the discovery that a single steam engine on wheels had the power of 16 horses, the railways began to carve up London, the great expropriations of land began, and suburbia was born. The Thames was still the heart of London; the stench and disease caused by teeming populations were ameliorated by the construction of sewers. By 1900, the outlines of modern London had been fixed; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Sherman, William T 1820-1891
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHESongs Of Separation
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SONStafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STAGuesdon, Jean-Michel
Summary: "The newest addition to the best-selling All the Songs series details the unique recording history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's most commercially successful and influential rock bands. Since 1965, Pink Floyd haven been recording sonically experimental and philosophical music, selling more than 250 million records worldwide, including two of the best-selling albums of all time: The Dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 GUESummary: When Victoria ascended the throne, there were one-and-a-half million Londoners; at her death, there were four-and-a-half million, a population explosion spurred by the Irish potato famine and new laws which allowed Jews escaping from Russian pogroms to immigrate. London was the largest city in the world-new bridges opened up the city; railroads and docks brought people and goods. The 1851...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Lamarre, Jean
Contents: Quebec in the nineteenth century -- The development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 -- French Canadian migration to the Saginaw Valley, 1840-1900 -- French Canadian migration to the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAMSummary: In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hakim, Joy.
Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.8 HAKDaughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDRollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM ROLContents: Introduction : women envision the West, 1890-1945 / Virginia Scharff -- Searching for selfhood : women artists of Northern California / Susan Landauer -- "Islands on the land" : women traditionalists of Southern California / Patricia Trenton -- The adventuresome, the eccentrics, and the dreamers : women modernists of Southern California / Ilene Susan Fort -- Northwestern exposure / Vicki Halper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with the University of California Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.18 INDVoice of the Seven Woods (Musical group)
Contents: Sand and flames -- Sayat nova -- The fire in my head -- Silver morning branches -- Second transition -- Valley of the rocks -- Underwater journey -- Return from Byzantium -- The smoking furnace -- Dusk cloud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twisted Nerve 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VOIBoduf Songs
Contents: Jacket cruiser -- My continuing battle with material reality -- Thwart by thwart -- The witch cradle -- Great anthem of my youth -- Head of hollow-fill and mountaintop removal -- The rotted names -- Grows in the small world of nerve -- Modern orbita -- Last song save one -- Sky Pedal's plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODBlackwater Valley Songs
Contents: An explanation of absence -- Ports & longing -- The dark news -- Diaspora -- Bright desert blues -- Fictions rise -- Dear friends, love her well -- Lonesome highway -- Good veins -- In your blood
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Publisher / Publication Date: Colossal Mastering Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BLAHolder, Jean M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3716 NOVPlaidy, Jean
Summary: As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father's ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary's life forever. The father who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlaidy, Jean
Summary: As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There she is married to the king's eldest son, Arthur, a sickly boy who dies six months after the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who was never truly a wife, lonely in a strange land, with a very bleak future. Her only hope of escape is to marry the king's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAShepherd, Jean.
Contents: A fistful of fig newtons, or The shootout in room 303 -- The light at the end of the tunnel -- The mole people battle the forces of darkness -- Marcel Proust meets the New Jersey tailgater, and survives -- The marathon run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler -- Sociology 101 (Hip Division) -- Lemons on the grass, alas -- The lost civilization of Deli -- The whole fun catalog of 1929 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHESartre, Jean-Paul
Summary: "Here in one volume is a unique, essential overview of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003