Willems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILPinnock, Don
Summary: Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation. African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species. The Last Elephants , an homage to these animals and a clarion call for their preservation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.67 PINEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.2 ENGHall, Tarquin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2767 HALKoestler-Grack, Rachel A.
Summary: "Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the threats to and protections of elephants. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Prince, April Jones.
Summary: Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shows the fetal development of an elephant, a dolphin, and a dog from a common evolutionary root into dramatically diverse adult mammals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Pringle, Laurence
Summary: Learn all about the elephant in this nonfiction picture book that explores every aspect of these giant mammals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.67 PRIPallotta, Jerry
Summary: Readers learn about the anatomy and behavior of walruses and elephant seals and decide who would win if they fought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALTinariwen (Musical group)
Contents: Kek algham (3:30) -- Tenere den (3:30) -- Arajghiyine (3:57) -- Imzad (interlude) (1:02) -- Tidjit (5:11) -- Jayche atarak (5:58) -- Imidiwan mahitinam (3:30) -- Imzad 2 (interlude) (1:35) -- Ezlan (5:26) -- Anemouhagh (3:43) -- Iket adjen (3:22) -- Nak idnizdjam (5:26) -- Tinde (outro) (2:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TINWillems, Mo
Summary: Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILCroke, Vicki.
Summary: "J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 CROSummary: The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALWillems, Mo
Summary: Cerdita ha sido invitada a una fiesta pro primera vez. Pero ¿qué se pondrá? Geraldo, el experto en fiestas, sabe exactamente cómo ayudarla, ¿o no?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILSummary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMHammer, Joshua
Summary: Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 025 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 025.8 HAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.8 HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word HammerTinariwen (Musical group)
Contents: Kek algham (3:30) -- Tenere den (3:30) -- Arajghiyine (3:57) -- Imzad (interlude) (1:02) -- Tidjit (5:11) -- Jayche atarak (5:58) -- Imidiwan mahitinam (3:30) -- Imzad 2 (interlude) (1:35) -- Ezlan (5:26) -- Anemouhagh (3:43) -- Iket adjen (3:22) -- Nak idnizdjam (5:26) -- Tinde (outro) (2:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Croke, Vicki.
Summary: The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CROSchwartz, Corey Rosen
Summary: In rhyming text, smarty ants build a house, counting as they work, and filled with everything they need--but potential disaster in the form of an elephant's foot strikes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHWillems, Mo
Summary: While Piggie is determined to fly Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing things happen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILApplegate, Katherine.
Summary: Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home-and his own art-through new eyes. When Ruby...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMContents: Alasidi (Afel Bocoum) (4:31) -- Balani (Abdoulaye Diabate) (4:31) -- Atlanta kaira (Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate) (4:57) -- Lan naya (Bembeya Jazz National) (7:02) -- Bassa (Momo Wandel Soumah) (6:30) -- Fanadugule (Nahawa Doumbia) (4:24) -- Alla uya (Ali Farka Toure) (4:27) -- Sara 70 (Balla et ses Balladins) (9:56) -- Haidara (Jali Moussa Jawara) (6:13) -- Duga (Rail Band) (4:23) -- Sounafi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROUTinariwen (Musical group)
Contents: Toumast tincha (4:26) -- Chaghaybou (4:56) -- Arhegh danagh (4:09) -- Timadrit in Sahara (4:02) -- Imidiwan ahi sigdim (4:54) -- Tahalamot (5:13) -- Sendad eghlalan (5:04) -- Imdiwanin ahi tifhamam (4:42) -- Koud edhaz emin (4:36) -- Emajer (3:42) -- Aghregh medin (4:18).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014