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Brown, Box

Summary: "Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda? Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect shows how corporate...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.72 BRO

Brown, Box

Summary: Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive--a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and thoughtful person, he's ironically best remembered for his various contemptible personas, which were so committed and so convincing that all but his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.23 BRO

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Prss 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRO

Summary: Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDRE THE GIANT BRO

Weiss, Andrew S.

Summary: "In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 PUT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 WEI

Brox, Jane

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 974.272 BRO

Brox, Jane

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 BRO

Brox, Jane

Summary: Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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