Wen, Leana S.
Summary: Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.69 WENSummary: Reveals the complicated effects the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of artist, futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris. Director Ondi Timoner documented more than a decade of Harris' increasingly tumultuous life and experiments, including one that involved living under 24-hour electronic surveillance, which led to his mental collapse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiepix Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEBernstein, Joshua M.
Summary: "A completely revised, updated, and repackaged second edition of the 2013 bestselling beer guide. First published in 2013, The Complete Beer Course has helped thousands of beer enthusiasts navigate the vast and often confusing world of beer. Bernstein is back to serve up a second round of insights. He introduces readers to must-know breweries, craft beers, and the industry's rising stars. Each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 BERDonellan, J. M. (Joshua M.)
Summary: Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONGlasser, Joshua M.
Summary: An in-depth account of the rise and fall of Thomas Eagleton as George McGovern's vice-presidential candidate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 GLAThomas, M. J.
Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to the time of the battle of Jericho, where they meet Israelite spies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOSummary: With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, filmmaker Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The world of investing normally sees experts telling us the "right" way to manage our money. How often do these experts pull back the curtain and tell us how they invest their own money? Never. How I Invest My Money changes that. In this unprecedented collection, 25 financial experts share how they navigate markets with their own capital. In this honest rendering of how they invest, save,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Money BrownSummary: Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: Inspired by the global best-selling novel La Reina Del Sur by internationally acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen of the South tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza, a woman who seeks refuge in America after being forced to run from the Mexican cartel. Eventually rising to power, Teresa now rules over her drug trafficking empire. In Season Five, Teresa finally embraces her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUEOluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata)
Summary: "Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OLUSummary: When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli, a hand-built artist colony hidden away in the alleyways of Delhi since the 1970s, must find a way to unite or splinter apart forever. Filmed from 2011 to 2014, this documentray chronicles the last days of of Kathputli, focusing on Puran the Puppeteer, Rahman the Magician, and Maya the Acrobat as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOMDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and his friends form a clubhouse after someone vandalizes their basketball court, and they soon uncover a clue that may tell them who did it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRAShenk, Joshua Wolf.
Summary: Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's worst crisis in the coping strategies he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM SheDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: After rescuing an orphaned deer, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs club members decide to stage a neighborhood animal show to raise money for the local wildlife rescue center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRASummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: From a map Ziggy and his friends discover an old tunnel that was once used as a safe haven by escaped slaves. While checking out the tunnel, the trap door gets stuck and the boys are forced to use the old, dark, damp tunnels that just may be haunted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRAGodowsky, Leopold
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Art Publication Society 1918
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMOsofsky, Audrey.
Summary: A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSOOsofsky, Joan
Summary: Collects ideas and real-life tips from design expert Joan Osofsky for stylish modern country living.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 OSOYoung, Josh (Joshua D.)
Summary: "Expedition Deep Ocean tells the inside story of this exploration of one of the most unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. The expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden landscapes, discovered previously unknown life forms and began to piece together how life in the deep oceans affects our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 YOULevy, Joshua (Joshua S.)
Summary: Seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public schoolship light years away from home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019