Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: Amy and Dan Cahill face their greatest challenge on their quest to find the thirty-nine clues, but in order to discover the secrets of their lineage they will have to make a choice that could impact the world's future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLUSummary: "Aspiring musician Miguel journeys to the land of the dead to meet his ancestor and change his family's ban on music."--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISSummary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores fascinating ancestries and family mysteries for an array of notable guests. This season features actors Pamela Adlon, Amy Carlson, Terry Crews, Tony Danza, Raúl Esparza, Kathryn Hahn, Rebecca Hall, John Leguizamo, Regina King and Lena Waithe; Broadway stars Nathan Lane and Leslie Odom, Jr.; superstar chef David Chang; talk show host and author Mario Lopez;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: Ana & Andrew think they have seen every fun place in their hometown of Washington, DC. They are surprised when Papa takes the family to a spot they haven't visited There, they honor an ancestor who fought for freedom. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLASummary: Here is a sparkling collection of Crown jewels--from amusing tales that humanize their subjects to dramatic stories of martyrdoms, palace intrigues, and bloody battles. Elizabeth Longford, intimate of the royal family and biographer of Victoria and Elizabeth II, has assembled the best anecdotes ever written and reported about the kings and queens of England, across the full range of Britain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.009 OXFKearse, Bettye
Summary: A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 KEASchindler, Meriel
Summary: "An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family's fate in Innsbruck and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SCHHollinghurst, Alan.
Summary: Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLKearse, Bettye
Summary: "A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KEAJeffers, Honorée Fanonne
Summary: To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past, uncovering shocking and unexpected tales of ancestors--Black, Indigenous, and white--in the deep South.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFMcQuestion, Karen
Summary: "Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCQRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THISummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINContents: Contents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor. -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georgr Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- v. 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 390 HISSummary: Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal efficiency. But what about the descendants of the handful of free black people who evaded bondage during that terrible time? Musician John Legend and comedian Wanda Sykes discover the extraordinary stories of the free black ancestors they never knew about, while...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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McEwan, Ian
Summary: When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFRSummary: This program features two African-American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural Georgia, while Cory Booker was raised in an affluent, all-white New Jersey suburb. Although both men have devoted their lives to the betterment of African-American people, neither knows much about his own ancestors. In this episode,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University president, Ruth Simmons, have each climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each started life as a second-class citizen in the Jim Crow south. DNA is used to investigate family mysteries: Where in Africa do they come from and who are the white men in their family trees?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Many Americans descend from a variety of European ethnicities, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich medley of European immigrant stories in their family trees. Delve into their deep American roots in early colonial communities and meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Ross, Theodora
Summary: "Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it's estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016