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Craft : an American history / by Adamson, Glenn,author.(CARDINAL)264604;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-367) and index.The artisan republic -- A self-made nation -- Learn trades or die -- A more perfect union -- Americana -- Making war -- Declarations of independence -- Cut and paste -- Can craft save America?At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt. Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.
Subjects: Industrial arts; Handicraft industries; Handicraft;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Deadly declarations / by Wade, Landis,author.;
"It's modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when three retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a The Indie, team up to investigate two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; United States.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Veni vidi vicious [sound recording] / by Hives (Musical group);
Hives are : Vigilante Carlstroem (middle) ; Nicholaus Arson (treble) ; Dr. Matt Destruction (bass) ; Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (vocals) ; Chris Dangerous (rhythm) ; in part with assisting musicians.Recorded 1999.Enhanced CD; "This standard audio CD contains bonus multi-media which is playable on most computers"--Container.
Subjects: Punk rock music; Rock music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans / by Nelson, Kadir,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)344155; Rago, Martha,typographer.(CARDINAL)596826; Balzer + Bray,publisher.(CARDINAL)788909;
Includes bibliographical references (page 104) and index.Declarations of independence -- Slavery -- Abolition -- Lincoln's war -- Reconstruction -- Cowboys and Indians: Native Americans and westward Negroes -- Turn of the century and the great migration -- Harlem and the vote for women -- Hard times and World War II -- Black innovation -- Jim Crow's a-dying -- Revolution -- Epilogue.Presents an introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.1050LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; Indians of North America; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heart and soul [audio-enabled device] the story of America and African Americans / by Nelson, Kadir,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)344155; Allen, Debbie,1950-narrator.(CARDINAL)763762; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268;
Includes bibliographical references (page 104) and index.Declarations of independence -- Slavery -- Abolition -- Lincoln's war -- Reconstruction -- Cowboys and Indians: Native Americans and westward Negroes -- Turn of the century and the great migration -- Harlem and the vote for women -- Hard times and World War II -- Black innovation -- Jim Crow's a-dying -- Revolution -- Epilogue.Read by Debbie Allen.Presents an introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.Grades 3-6.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; Indians of North America; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The game of Scattergories [board game]. [board book] by Milton Bradley Company.(CARDINAL)715755;
Each player fills out a category list 'with answers that begin with the same letter.' If no other player matches your answers, you score points. The game is played in rounds. After 3 rounds a winner is declared, and a new game can be begun.Intended audience: ages 12 to adult.
Subjects: Board games.; Games.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sometimes people die : a novel / by Stephenson, Simon(Writer),author.(CARDINAL)840103;
Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.
Subjects: Medical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Physicians; Opioid abuse; Patients; Serial murderers; Murder;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21
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Daddy's girl [large print] / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)341421;
Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always followed the law finds herself suspected of a brutal murder. Forced into hiding, she sets out to save herself by deciphering the puzzle behind the dead guard's last words.
Subjects: Large print books.; Legal fiction (Literature); Thrillers (Fiction); Law teachers;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 25
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Proof of life / by Jance, Judith A.,author.(CARDINAL)345914;
When his longtime nemesis dies in what is declared an accidental fire, J.P. Beaumont is dragged out of retirement and into an ensuing investigation at the request of the deceased himself.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Beaumont, J. P. (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Criminal investigation; Homicide; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 22
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The death factory : a Penn Cage novella / by Iles, Greg,author.(CARDINAL)373501;
When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request--keeping his secrets for another day. The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA's office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cage, Penn (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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