Elston, Heidi M. D.
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Millard Fillmore including his early political career and key events from Fillmore's administration including the Compromise of 1850 and the Treaty of Kanagawa. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FILSummary: Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABODe Capua, Sarah
Summary: Briefly describes the accomplishments of American abolitionists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries as they struggled to end slavery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 DE CCircle (Musical group)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ektro Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CirclNielsen, Scott.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.41 NIESummary: When legendary rock impresario Bill Graham closed the Fillmore West in the summer of 1971, he made sure it went out with a bang. Over five nights, acts including the Grateful Dead and Santana took to the stage for one final send off. The madness leading up to the shows and the gritty backstage footage are chronicled in this classic rock film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FILGraham, Lauren
Summary: "This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, LAUREN GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GRAHAM GRAZink, Nell
Summary: "Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINSummary: In this program, the orchestra uses lighthearted cafe music from the Milhaud ballet set in a Paris nightclub to illustrate how the use of various keys adds color to the musical landscape. Different instruments, performing the pieces in major and minor keys, give listeners a firsthand glimpse into how key changes add interest to music.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A meaningful understanding of Islam begins when its principles are discussed with an open mind. In this program, Amina Wadud, of Virginia Commonwealth University; Ibrahim Kalin, of the College of the Holy Cross; and Timothy George, founding dean of Beeson Divinity School, join together to examine the meaning of Islam-both within a Muslim context and in relation to the Christian and Jewish...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lynch, Thomas
Summary: Poems include meditations in a London park, modern turns on Gregorian chants, and thoughts on life, death, memory, and history
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LYNBuffa, D.W.
Summary: When Robert Constable, President of the United States, dies in bed with a woman in a New York hotel room, the public is told that he died suddenly and peacefully of natural causes—and alone. The truth, however, is anything but that. The President’s wife, Hillary Constable asks young senator Bobby Hart, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, to find out who had her husband murdered and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUFMidland (Musical group)
Summary: The tale that describes Midland's rise from avid fan to headlining room 1 at fabric may seem unreal but is actually a testament to an unequivocal vision and simple hard work. Working in kitchens to buy DJ equipment, graveyard radio slots, and relentless gigs during university years gradually gave way to a break with Dillinja's Valve Soundsystem show in the early 2000's. 'Fabriclive 94' mix is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MIDPhone directory.
Summary: Auburn* -- Edenville* -- Freeland* -- Midland -- Hope* -- Sanford* -- Includes business and government listings only
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017Kaplan, Fred
Summary: Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KAPMcGuire, Seanan
Summary: When Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children's mean girl discovers her talent for finding absolutely anything, new student Antsy searches for a way back to the Shop Where Lost Things Go to be sure Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCG1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Humble Pie (Musical group)
Contents: Four day creep (3:46) -- I'm ready (8:31) -- Stone cold fever (6:18) -- I walked on gilded splinters (23:25) -- Rolling stone (16:07) -- Hallelujah (I love her so) (5:10) -- I don't need no doctor (9:15).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HUMLizzio, Kenneth P.
Summary: "An abolitionist and a spy, father and son, in the forgotten Western theater of the Civil War. The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, butwith similar passion, Orville and Spencer's stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LIZKhan-Cullors, Patrisse
Summary: "In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 CULMcPhail, Diane C.
Summary: In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history--Southern Abolitionists--and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPCastro, Tommy.
Contents: Right as rain 4:56. -- Like an angel 5:03. -- Nasty habits 4:59. -- My times after awhile 7:44. -- Lucky in love 4:52. -- I got to change 3:12. -- Can't you see what you're doing to me 5:04. -- Just a man 5:46. -- Can't keep a good man down 5:34. -- The girl can't help it 3:31. -- Sex machine 6:30.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blind Pig 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CASSpinale, Laura
Summary: An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery and fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRUAllman Brothers Band
Contents: Side one. Statesboro blues -- Done somebody wrong -- Stormy Monday.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Records 2016
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK ALLSummary: Government agencies and professionals who deal with damage claims are literally trying to determine the dollars-and-cents worth of human life. How do we decide what is an efficient annual cost for a nursing home? Or the cost for a new liver? And who is going to pay? Dr. Willard Gaylin is a practicing psychiatrist and president of the Hastings Center, an institute devoted to studying the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005