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Alternative rock music American poetry Children's poetry, American Families Religious aspects Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Families Religious life Field, Sally Indians of North America History 20th century Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant) 1923-2001 United StatesChadbourne, Eugene.
Contents: The bully song -- Private club -- My gas tank runs on booze -- I'm sorry -- The dog song -- My uncle used to love me but she died -- Music from Canadasmania. Light my fire ; Workingman blues -- Train medley. Freight train ; Take the A train -- Willie medley. On the road again ; I fall to pieces ; Nightlife -- Australia medley. You just can't win ; Sheik of Scrubby Creek.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Entropy Stereo Recordings 1983
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE CHACall number: CD AVANT-GARDE Chadb
Chadbourne, Eugene.
Contents: Whiskey and women -- In search of Carl la Fong -- Raking a chance on love -- Han Bennink and Eugene Chadbourne -- In between comme C and come saw -- The banjo duet -- Red lightning.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE ChadbKinkead, Eugene
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 KINSummary: In 1851, word spread of California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wished to exploit the land for commercial gain as well as those who wished to keep it pristine. This episode relates how a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir made protecting this land a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passed an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development—the first time in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Jarecki, Eugene.
Summary: In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 JARBlock, Eugene B.
Contents: America's pioneer detective: Allan Pinkerton.--A great detective: Raymond C. Schindler.--Chief of the FBI: J. Edgar Hoover.--A prophecy come true: Frederick R. Cherrill.--Pandora's box: George W. Cornish.--Dope traffickers' nemesis: George Hunter White.--Great Teigin mystery: Tamegoro Ikii.--War on the Mafia: Joseph Petrosino.--Trapping dynamiters: William J. Burns.--A game of cat and mouse:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BLOField, Eugene
Summary: In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe catch stars in their nets of silver and gold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.4 FIEField, Eugene
Summary: Ninety-four of the author's poems for and about children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 FIEFish, Stanley Eugene.
Summary: Fish has always been an aficionado of language, marveling at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences. Here he offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 808 FISField, Andy
Summary: "The light touch of a hairdresser's hands on one's scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a spontaneous snowball fight in the street, a daily interaction with a homeless man--such mundane connections, when we closely inhabit the same space, and touch or are touched by others, were nearly lost to "social distancing." Will we ever again...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 FIESledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEField, Syd.
Summary: A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer/lecturer/teacher has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insider's perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books, c1969. 1969
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 WALField, Sally
Summary: One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV role at the age of seventeen. From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Field has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 FIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, SALLY FIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FIELD FIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FieldSummary: 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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Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
Summary: "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ULRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.309 ULRHakim, Joy.
Summary: Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Summary: "Meet the founding father who made America modern... An immigrant from the West Indies, he played a crucial part in the political, legal, and economic development of the new nation: He served as Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War; he helped establish the Constitution; he wrote most of The Federalist Papers; and he modernized America’s fledgling finances,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER SYLPagnamenta, Peter.
Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGChristie, Agatha
Summary: "Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRField Music (Musical group)
Contents: Sound ranging -- Silence / After the fact -- Coffee or wine -- Best kept garden -- I thought you were something else -- Between nations -- A change of heir -- Do you read me? -- From a dream, into my arms -- Beyond that of courtesy -- A shot to the arm -- A common language pt. 1 -- A common language pt. 2 -- Nikon pt. 1 -- Nikon pt. 2 -- If the wind blows towards the hospital -- Only in a man's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIESummary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Daughters 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019