Summary: A look at the life of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons, to try and get his life back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Moss, Candida R.

Summary: Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on a "biblical worldview." But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. The billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby, a huge nationwide chain of craft stores, the Greens came to national attention in 2014 after successfully suing the federal government...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 MOS

Bird, Kai

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR

Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEA

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling-the handsome, charming soldier of her dreams, and her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War-a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Chief Engineer on his father's magnum opus, the Brooklyn Bridge, and it changes both of their lives forever. In...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOO

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally--she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold, and her life transformed when Wash, the Chief Engineer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOO

Summary: Based on the true story of Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., who rises from complete obscurity to become a golfing legend. Jones overcomes his own fierce temper, intense passion, and perfectionist tendencies to master the game and wins the Grand Slam, the U.S., British, and Amateur Opens in golf, a feat unequaled even today. But it is Jones's style, personality, and character that separate him from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOB

Steele, Michael Anthony

Summary: When Scooby-Doo and the rest of Mystery Inc. are trapped in Gotham City's new monument to Rizzo the Clown, Batman comes to the rescue to help them find the creepy culprit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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

Macartney, Sue

Summary: "A young blue-footed booby named Benjamin has a knack for finding "treasure" (human discards). When his discovery of a mirror causes him to become insecure about his body, Benjamin uses his collection to change his features. But his changes make it impossible to swim and fish and fly, and Benjamin realizes he's exactly the way he's meant to be."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAC

Fleming, Candace

Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

Summary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLU

Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)

Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIE

Schneider, Andrew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 SCH

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling-the handsome, charming soldier of her dreams, and her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War-a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Chief Engineer on his father's magnum opus, the Brooklyn Bridge, and it changes both of their lives forever. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Taylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)

Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAY

Walstead, Alice

Summary: Children attempt to catch Santa Claus as he delivers their presents on Christmas Eve.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAL

Agarwal, Shilpa

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGA

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: "FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

Summary: Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY USE

McCarthy, Cory

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ace Wells's dream has finally come true: he is a new cadet in the B.E.S.T. (Biological Enhancement Systems Technology) Program. Until now, he's been living in the shadow of his superstar brother, Finn--but not for long. This is new Ace! He knows he can make his mark on the world with SuperSoar wings, but on day one, nothing goes as planned. The antagonistic elevator AI Otis...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCC

Faleiro, Sonia.

Summary: Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.709 FAL

Wyman, Christina

Summary: Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless, and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite. She already has braces, which means she lives on Advil and soft foods after each orthodontist appointment. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYM

Summary: Goodbye, Tree Hill High. Graduation nears and with its approach comes the realization that, for students and parents alike, life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture, old scores still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas, Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith--or is it his spirit?--inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Peyton is terrorized by a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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