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Webb, Amy

Summary: Five-year-old Charley gets teased for daydreaming and drawing more than his friends, but when he meets Emma, who is physically different, he needs help remembering that being different is okay.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Webb 2019

Webb, Amy

Summary: "A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 WEB

Webb, Amy

Summary: "Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers. Synthetic biology enables us not just to readand edit DNA - the technique of CRISPR - but also write it. Rather than life being "a beautiful game of chance", synthetic biology creates the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 WEB

Myers, Walter Dean

Summary: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem travels across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, and inspires an entire continent with their unique brand of jazz music.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 MYE

Summary: This PBS miniseries tells the epic history of oil ... how it has dominated global politics, shaken the world economy, and transformed our century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SAN

Summary: The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOU

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOU

Summary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a unique unit that rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. Members of this highly-skilled tactical team are also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try to save lives. Includes all thirteen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLA

Anderson, Godfrey J.

Summary: Contains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldier's experiences during President Woodrow Wilson's ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern Russia. --from publisher description

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 ANDERSON, GODFREY J. AND

Summary: On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the organizers of the Newport Jazz Festival presented a special tribute to one of the great figures of jazz, Louis Armstrong. Features commentary by Armstrong.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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Summary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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Contents: Introduction (by Norman Granz) (0:36) -- I remember you / Johnny Mercer ; Victor Schertzinger (5:00) -- The lamp is low / Peter de Rose ; Mitchell Parish ; Maurice Ravel ; Bert Shefter (1:48) -- 'Round midnight / Thelonious Monk ; Cootie Williams ; Bernard Hanighen (5:25) -- There will never be another you / Harry Warren ; Mack Gordon (1:39) -- And I love him / John Lennon ; Paul McCartney...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Jazz Festival Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL VAU

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PUR

Summary: 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers₂ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THE

Summary: "It is for Melinda and Jim when death turns their lives upside down, but also gives them a second chance at love. Journey with Melinda ... and see how her relationships with Jim, Delia, Eli and Ned are put to the ultimate test."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GHO

Summary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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Summary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010

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Summary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FOR

Edwards, Judith

Summary: An account, told in the words of one participant, of the difficulties and wonders that were part of the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the land obtained as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003

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Summary: A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes a superhero when he puts on a mystical mask.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAS

Contents: Western -- Central -- Eastern -- Nothern -- Upper peninsula

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Historical Society of Michigan 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 MICHIGAN HIS

Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

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