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Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Meacham, Jon.

Summary: A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANDREW MEA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres Meacham

Jackson, Livia Bitton.

Contents: A hazardous mission -- On the way to Europe -- Ari -- Vienna -- Crossing the Iron Curtain -- The escape -- The bridge -- The Danube -- Bratislava -- The bribe -- The drive -- The beginning of the end -- Buying favors -- Louis the Madman of Samorin -- A divine miracle at the Burial Authority -- The phantom -- The chairman -- Penetrating the jungle -- The house in Samorin -- Papa's castle -- Gone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.73 BITTON-JAKCSON, LIV BIT

Kershaw, Alex.

Summary: Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KER

Halperin, Ian.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Delivers new revelations about Michael Jackson's controversial life and legacy: his multiple plastic surgeries, his skin bleaching, his sexual identity, and his potentially fatal genetic condition ... and dispels the popular myths" about the King of Pop. The conclusion was written after "Michael Jackson's died just as this book was going to press."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MICHAEL HAL

Henry, Marian S.

Summary: "This book paints a picture of the early settlers of the Genesee Country who were among the first wave of migrants moving westward after the Revolutionary War. Author Marian Henry begins with families enumerated in the 1790 Federal Census and links these first settlers of present-day Steuben County to their eastern origins -- usually New England, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey. The sketches cover...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 Henry

Rajan, Rekha S.

Summary: The Jackson family rush to Minnesota where a blizzard is putting both people and animals in danger from freezing temperatures, and blinding snow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic

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Rajan, Rekha S.

Summary: The Jackson family travels to Texas, where a hurricane is heading down the coast, and there are animals, wildlife, and people in danger--but first they have to ride out the storm at a local shelter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic

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Khan, Hena

Summary: Readers can join Curious George when he helps out at the Jackson Family Farm by lifting flaps that reveal such items as Mr. Jackson's missing milk pail, the chickens' hidden eggs, and the sun shining over the pumpkin patch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE KHA

Rajan, Rekha S.

Summary: The Jackson family, including eight-year-old Jaden and his sister Leela, travel the United States responding to disasters, helping people and rescuing animals--but they have never responded to a wildfire like the one raging in Northern California.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RAJ

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