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Flora, Carlin

Summary: Illuminates the critical role of friendship in happiness, combining scientific findings with relatable anecdotes to explore how relationships, long-time friends, and social networking groups shape an individual's mental, emotional, and physical health.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 FLO

Judson, Clara Ingram 1879-1960

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1959

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 627.12 JUD

Foran, Caroline

Summary: Caroline Foran is not here to “cure” your anxiety. When crippling panic attacks upended her job, her health, and her life, she tried everything—from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to acupuncture, and yoga to medication. She found that there’s no such thing as a stress-free life . . . but, armed with the right tool kit, she could live with anxiety, and not spend her days running away from it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 FOR

Summary: Showcases some of the best musicians and comedians of the 70s and early 80s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MID

Summary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INV

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009

Contents: Use your head (Money Mark) (2:47) -- Corcovado (Everything but the Girl) (3:56) -- Desafinado (Astrud Gilberto + George Michael (3:20) -- Non-fiction burning (PM Dawn with Flora Purim + Airto (4:31) -- The boy from Ipanema (Crystal Waters) (4:24) -- Interlude (0:14) -- Seguranca (Maxwell) (3:29) -- E preciso perdoar (Cesaria Evora + Caetano Veloso + Ryuichi Sakamoto) (6:01) -- Interlude (0:33)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RED

Modiano, Patrick

Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOD

Berlioz, Hector

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 1999

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DAM

Lara, Carrie

Summary: "A bicultural child describes her visits to her grandma's house and her abuela's house, and how both sides of the family come together to celebrate her younger brother's birthday"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, American Psychological Association 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAR

Summary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

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

Carson, Lori.

Contents: 16 days. -- Take your time. -- Breathe. -- Head in a box. -- Caroline. -- Stars. -- Spinning world. -- Rainy day. -- Fourth of July. -- Treasure.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Records 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAR

Ford, Carin T.

Summary: Explains the early plight of the slaves and their run for freedom during and after the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 FOR

Summary: Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KLA

Carson, Lori.

Contents: Something's got me -- Make a little luck -- Black thumb -- Snow come down -- Whole heart -- Fade -- Souvenir -- Train -- Greener -- I saw the light -- Something's got me.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Records 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAR

Summary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine. But just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual. Each coping in their own way, Eyal and Vicky both attempt to regain a sense of control over their future, as they struggle to discover that there are still things in life worth living for.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONE

Summary: "A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF HIG

Jones, Carrie

Summary: "Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BER

Brown, Margaret Wise

Summary: A previously unpublished collection of lyrics for twelve lullabies, illustrated by contemporary, award-winning artists Jonathan Bean, Carin Berger, Sophie Blackall, Linda Bleck, Renata Liwska, Christopher Silas Neal, Zachariah Ohora, Eric Puybaret, Sean Qualls, Isabel Roxas, Melissa Sweet, and Dan Yaccarino.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRO

Brown, Margaret Wise

Summary: Presents a collection of twelve lullabies, illustrated by contemporary, award-winning artists including Jonathan Bean, Sophie Blackall, Renata Liwska, and Dan Yaccarino.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BRO

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Matthew, a young African American with asthma who dreams of becoming an Olympic runner like his hero, Jesse Owens, accompanies his journalist father to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMI

Acosta, Carlos

Summary: "Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales--some taller than others--of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love, and identity that span three generations. One day, Oscar wakes to find that he is alone in the world. As the sole descendent of his family line, he is not sure what to do or where to go, but he holds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACO

Summary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRO

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Follow Ms. Peregrine Fisher, niece of Miss Phryne Fisher, as she steps into her aunt's role as a lady detective, this time in 1960s Melbourne, Australia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MS.

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