Summary: This episode of the award-winning PBS series NOVA explores an intriguing question: how did warm-blooded dinosaurs survive and even thrive in frigid polar regions? A field expedition seeks the answer at Alaska’s North Slope, tunneling into the permafrost to excavate dinosaur fossils. This documentary shows reconstructions and animations of the fossils and discusses the many questions raised by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As he took office on January 20, 2009, President Barack Obama must deliver on an ambitious campaign pledge to fight global warming. This program from NOVA examines the work of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is already leading the way with a dramatic and controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency. The pros and cons of California's bold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: As oil prices continue to rise steeply and political turmoil increases in the Middle East, it is increasingly evident that finding a solution to an uncertain energy future is one of the biggest issues of our time. With advances in science and engineering, new materials and ingenious designs for solar collectors are transforming the technology into a vastly cheaper, more efficient alternative....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Does it amaze you that yeast is your very close relative? That you possess roughly the same number of genes as a mouse? That you are 99.9% genetically identical to every other human? In this NOVA special, correspondent Robert Krulwich lends a lighthearted touch to genetic science, going inside the amazing, complex, and contentious race to decode the human genome. Discover how the study of our...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Dogs have been domesticated for longer than any other animal on the planet, and humans have developed a unique relationship with these furry friends. New research is revealing what dog lovers have suspected all along, that dogs have an uncanny ability to read and respond to human emotions. How did this incredible relationship between humans and dogs come to be? And how can dogs, so closely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc DoSummary: This program from NOVA presents author and neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks and his exploration of the link between music and the brain. While working with patients who struggle to cope with a number of debilitating medical conditions, including autism and Tourrette syndrome, Dr. Sacks found that the therapeutic effects of music help many. Four remarkable case studies from Dr. Sacks’ book,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In a new age of information, rapid innovation, and globalization, how can children be prepared to compete? Discover how the new science of learning can help reimagine the future of education for all children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SCHSummary: Television programs on the history of the Colosseum and Stonehenge. Nova sent archaeological teams to each site to test their hypotheses using traditional building techniques.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: The mission was impossible. The odds were astronomical. The results were spectacular. NOVA presents the fascinating story behind the Apollo space program, including the most remarkable feat in human history—the historic walk on the moon in 1969. This program shares vivid recollections of Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Frank Borman, and introduces viewers to legendary Flight Director Gene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Evans, Richard Paul
Summary: "The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: Sally Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Sally climb out of her hole and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Sally decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one--albeit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVASummary: After the events of "Hunting the Elements", venture on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that have paved the way for human civilization, life, the universe, and everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEYSummary: Mind Over Money investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, NOVA explores how human psychology and finance...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that homo sapiens came to inhabit. Now, join an international team of scientists as they climb to the world's highest tombs to unearth secrets of the people who settled these extreme environments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: Returning to her childhood home after nearly two decades and reeling from upheavals in her world, Noel Post inherits her father's bookstore and begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life andher future, and as she begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, Noel starts to unravel the reality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: Sally Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Sally climb out of her hole and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Sally decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one--albeit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAJance, Judith A.
Summary: When Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali's old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiance, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. The man posing as Brenda's fiance is revealed to be Richard Lowensdale, a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is viciously murdered, the police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2021Evans, Richard Paul
Summary: "The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAGiles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
Summary: Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man appears with a camera that literally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GILLawhead, Stephen R.
Summary: High King of Albion, Llew, formerly Lewis Gillies from Oxford, who crossed dimensions into an alternate Celtic reality, marries beautiful Goewyn, but he must leave Albion and his new bride to travel to the Foul Land, where he must defeat the Brazen Man in order to save his kingdom and his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawhead, Stephen R.
Summary: "The great king, Meldryn Mawr, is dead, and his kingdom lies in ruins. Treachery and brutality rule the land, and Albion is the scene of an epic struggle for the throne. Lewis is now known as Llew in this Otherworld, and he has become a threat to the usurper Meldron. Exiled and drive from the clan, he must seek the meaning behind a mysterious prophecy--the making of a true king and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: This is Naples as you've never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit his atrocious crimes largely undisturbed, to merge with the crowd as if he were invisible. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013