Messner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESPonting, Herbert George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 PONJodorowsky, Axel
Summary: A young man who was traumatized as a child by his family of circus performers escapes the mental hospital he is in to rejoin his armless mother and, with the son becoming his mother's arms, the two go on a murderous campaign of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SANAnderson, Jon Lee
Summary: "The graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara. The Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Jon Lee...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE ANDSummary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje, fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2023
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLALanza, R. P. (Robert Paul)
Summary: "What is consciousness? Why are we here? Where did it all come from-the laws of nature, the stars, the universe? Humans have been asking these questions forever, but science hasn't succeeded in providing many answers-until now. In The Grand Biocentric Design, Robert Lanza, one of TIME magazine's '100 Most Influential People,' is joined by theoretical physicist Matej Pav¿Łi♯ and astronomer Bob...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil LanzaSummary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATMasilamani, Mike
Summary: "A darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war, violence and refugee camps. Set in Sri Lanka, the scenes that unfolds in this powerful vignette of children caught in the crossfire of civil war could equally happen elsewhere-- in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers and guns do not differentiate between adults and children"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books Private Limited 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSummary: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSSummary: A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AlvSummary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARDylan, Bob
Contents: Disc One. Like a rolling stone (John Mellencamp) -- Leopard-skin pill-box hat (John Mellencamp) -- Introduction (Kris Kristofferson) -- Blowin' in the wind (Stevie Wonder) -- Foot of pride (Lou Reed) -- Masters of war (Eddie Vedder ; Mike McCready) -- The times they are a-changin' (Tracy Chapman) -- It ain't me, babe (June Carter Cash ; Johnny Cash) -- What was it you wanted (Willie Nelson) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 1993
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DYLSummary: The survivors encounter a terrifying new threat. Everything they thought they knew about survival in this post-apocalyptic world will be challenged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: After being brutally forced to fall under Negan's will, Rick now understands Negan can't be reasoned with, and any day could be the survivors' last. The communities join forces in the last stand against the Saviors as all-out war unfolds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENSummary: Jim Bowie is learning the courtly ways of 1825 Southern society and he's wearing only the finest suits and cravats, proving himself in business and at the gaming table. Yet despite his prowess in a world of dandies and ruffians, he may be overmatched in the ways of the heart because he's fallen for the lovely Jubalon, the magnolia belle fancied by men of means from Natchez to New Orleans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IROSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is the terror of the Spanish Main, striking crippling blows against the oppressive Spanish war machine, freeing English slaves from the galley ships and filling England's coffers with Spanish gold--with the tacit approval of England's Queen Elizabeth I. When the dashing Thorpe raids and sinks a diplomatic vessel bringing ambassador Don José Alvarez de Cordoba and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SEASummary: In a struggle over the family fortune, an ominous secret that plagues the Caldwell estate enshrouds all its inhabitants in a mantle of morbidity and malice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYSummary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003