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Belloc, Hilaire

Summary: From the Publisher: One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.912 BEL

Contents: Disc 1. Hard travelin' / Woody Guthrie -- Old Man Atom / Sam Hinton -- Black, brown and white / Big Bill Broonzy -- Nottamun town / Jean Ritchie -- Darlin' Cory / Ed McCurdy -- One meat ball / Josh White -- Little boxes / Malvina Reynolds -- I was born 10,000 years ago / Oscar Brand -- Midnight special / Cisco Houston -- Wasn't that a time / Weavers -- Spanish is a loving tongue / Glenn...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2001

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK Was

Tangerine Dream.

Contents: This clamshell box of The Pink Years Albums 1970 -- 1973 features Electronic Meditation, Alpha Centauri, Zeit, and Atem packaged in replica card sleeves and also includes a poster.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Esoteric Recordings 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TAN

Summary: Studebaker ad (TV commercial) touting the car's economy and fuel efficiency with "no fuel-eating extra weight

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Summary: 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...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Documents the Native American struggle against European settlers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

Williams, Glyndwr.

Contents: El Mar del Sur : the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed" : Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery" : buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge" : Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997

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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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Summary: French Depression conditions

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933

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Ruggles, Glenn.

Contents: The early years, 1850-1870. Peter Dougherty, missionary; Abram Wadsworth, founder; Dexter-Noble, lumber company; Native Americans, sawmill, flour mill, Chain of Lakes -- The Principality is born, 1870-1890. "Pig Iron," Elk Rapids Iron Company, Bangor chemical plant, brewery, seven saloons, pollution, drunkenness, livestock running loose, cruising the Chain of Lakes -- The peak and decline,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Heron Press 2007

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.485 RUG
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.485 RUG

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.485 RUG

Bogue, Margaret Beattie

Summary: Examines the history of human use of the fish resources of the Great Lakes, and analyzes the changing nature of the fish populations, especially those that became popular in the commercial markets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9561 Bogue

Summary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010

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Summary: Korea action and political comments before cease-fire

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Summary: Akron Ohio Soap Box Derby, shot Dinah Shore at event

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Ayers, Edward L.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYE

Contents: The time of the cuckoo / by Arthur Laurents -- Bernardine / by Mary Chase -- Dial "M" for murder / by Frederick Knott -- The climate of Eden / by Moss Hart -- The love of four colonels / by Peter Ustinov -- The crucible / by Arthur Miller -- The emperor's clothes / by George Tabori -- Picnic / by William Inge -- Wonderful town / book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; music by Leonard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1953

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BES

Summary: Shots of life in Kenya under British rule

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Lone Bellow (Musical group)

Contents: Green eyes and a heart of gold -- Tree to grow -- Two sides of lonely -- You never need nobody -- You can be all kinds of emotional -- You don't love me like you used to -- Fire red horse -- Bleeding out -- Looking for you -- Teach me to know -- The one you should've let go.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Descendant 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LON

Summary: France unveils new automobile with futuristic flair.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Desmond, Paul

Contents: disc 1. Jazz at Storyville (1953) ; Jazz interweave (1954) ; Desmond (1954) -- disc 2. Featuring Don Elliott (1956) ; Gerry Mulligan-Paul Desmond Quartet (1957) -- disc 3. "First place again" playboy (1960) ; Desmond blue (1962) -- disc 4. Two of a mind (1962) ; Take ten (1963).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DES

Schumacher, Michael

Contents: "How could such a thing happen on a goddamn lake?" Lakes Superior and Michigan -- "So violent a storm": apocalypse on Lake Huron -- "You might not have light tonight": the storm visits Cleveland -- "I might see you in heaven": explorations of loss -- "This was not natural": discoveries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.033 SCH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.033 SCH

Reinhardt, Django

Contents: Peche a la mouche -- Minor blues -- For sentimental reasons -- Danse NorvGegienne -- Blues for Barclay -- Folie a amphion -- Vette -- Anniversary song -- Swing 48 -- September song -- Brazil -- I'll never smile again -- New York City -- Django's blues -- Love's mood -- I love you -- Topsy -- Moppin' the bride, micro -- Insensiblement -- Mano -- Blues --- Gipsy with a song (1) -- Gipsy with a...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Records 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REI

Summary: Woman in kitchen with toddler, wears heels to do dishes, very 1950s; domestic; housewife; mother

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1953

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Berry, Chuck.

Contents: 1. 1955 to 1958: Maybelline ; Wee wee hours ; Thirty days ; You can't catch me ; No money down ; Downbound train ; Brown eyed handsome man ; Drifting heart ; Roll over Beethoven ; Too much monkey business ; Havana moon ; School day ; Rock and roll music ; O baby doll ; I've changed ; Reelin' and rockin' ; Rockin' at the Philharmonic ; Sweet little sixteen ; Johnny B. Goode ; Time was ; Around...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Chess 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BER

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