Catalog Search Results
Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
Feb. 10: Black History Month
Mar. 9: Women's History Month
Apr. 13: Arab American Heritage Month
May 18: Asian American / Pacific Islander Heritage Month
See Also:
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this program, Tomiko Morimoto shares her inspiring story of survival and triumph in the face of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. As a teenager, she watched the bombing from her schoolyard, losing her mother and grandfather in the attack. She went on to marry an American GI, become a professor at Vassar College, and at age 90 to advocate for world peace.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He was one of the 19th century's most important revolutionaries, an architect of Italian unity and a popular ladies' man: Giuseppe Garibaldi. A man full of contradictions, Garibaldi nevertheless enjoyed great admiration and respect. Featuring interviews with historians and his descendants, this program visits significant sites of his revolutionary activities to help paint a full picture of this man who went from guerrilla fighter to national hero....
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District, or Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. This documentary charts that history and explores the lessons from this time period that can be applied today.
5) True North
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After his father disappears and the rest of his family is sent to a notorious political prison camp in North Korea, a young boy must learn to survive the harsh conditions, find meaning in his perilous existence, and maybe even escape.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The story of one of the world's most famous diamonds-stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London-is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their heads high. The Kohinoor diamond, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, was stolen from India and fought over throughout centuries of colonial conquest, eventually landing in the hands of British royals who tricked a ten-year-old South Asian monarch...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Since the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking connections between our current moment and the tumultuous interwar period in Europe. But others question if these connections really reflect our current political moment or if they are another example of Eurocentrism and American provincialism speaking over...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A best-selling and award-winning maritime historian presents this true story of five castaways—three British sailors and two Americans—abandoned on the Falkland Islands for a year and a half during the War of 1812, showing individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously as they struggle to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed 21 people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the army, the navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El 16 de julio de 1945, en el desierto de Nuevo México, se detonaba en secreto la primera bomba atómica. Impactado por el poder destructivo de su creación, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director del Proyecto Manhattan, se comprometería desde entonces a luchar contra el desarrollo de la bomba de hidrógeno y contra la guerra nuclear. Sospechoso de comunista para los Estados Unidos de la era McCarthy, fue perseguido por el FBI, calumniado como espía de...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion. When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the day was illusory. Britain may have been victorious in a painful war, but the peace would be no easier. Between the abdication crisis, the death of King George VI, and the ascension of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Get ready for a fun-filled journey through art, and discover why we make it and why it matters. What's the Point of Art? reveals how art has changed the world, one artistic movement at a time, and it is guaranteed to inspire, surprise, and entertain everybody who picks it up. DK what's the point of? series,
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request