Summary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BUDBurns, Ken
Summary: Explores the life and career of one of the most influential American documentary filmmakers, Ken Burns.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KENNielson, Stephanie
Summary: Details how the author survived a horrific plane crash that left her with third degree burns over eighty percent of her body and learned to embrace the power of love, motherhood, community, faith, and the simple joys of everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSON, STEPHANIE NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio NielsonBroberg-Moffitt, Matthew
Summary: "This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques with a dash of understanding about food aversion and how to help your kids--and yourself--cook beautiful meals in an empowering way, and is a groundbreaking resource for anyone who has ever been called "picky" or "discerning." Learn how to alter the texture or taste profile of a dish, or even fit it within a specific palette with a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BROSummary: In a nineteenth-century Estonian village, a peasant girl recruits the help of a witch to win the love of a boy, but the process proves to be incredibly complicated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOVBragg, Rick.
Summary: No one writes about the South like Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg (All Over But the Shoutin). Once again, he lends his voice to the working people of the deep South, and tells the story of a memorable figure in a singular time-a man on a lost stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border. The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of All Over But the Shoutin' continues his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUNDRUM, CHARLIE BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 975.042 BRALipsyte, Sam
Summary: Hark Morner, the unwitting guru behind "Mental Archery"--a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and archery--is set to be raised to near-messiah status, a role for which he is woefully underprepared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lipsyte 2019Burks, Ruth Coker
Summary: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling tohelp. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURKS, RUTH COKER BURGandhi, Vikram
Summary: In order to prove that self proclaimed Indian gurus are no more holy than anyone else, New Jersey filmmaker Vikram Gandhi transforms himself into guru Sir Kumaré and develops a following.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KUMKim Phúc
Summary: "Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM PHUC KIMSummary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVAbbott, Tony.
Summary: A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABBBurns, Bob
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.4361 BURBurns, William J. (William Joseph)
Summary: "Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNS, WILLIAM J BURDavidson, Andrew.
Summary: The narrator of this story is diving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide, for he is now a monster in appearance as well as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVBasch, Rachel.
Summary: Lily Sterne's life is torn apart when her daughter is burned in a cooking accident, but when the police try and take her children away from her, she knows she will have to go to any length to prove she is innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASHartinger, Brent.
Summary: After "coming out" at school, sixteen-year-old Russel decides to take a counselor job at a camp for burn victims to get away from the antagonism of his classmates, but finds ten-year-old boys have just as many problems as he does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARReader, Eddi.
Contents: Jamie come try me -- My love is like a red red rose -- Willie Stewart ; Molly Rankin -- Ae fond kiss -- Brose and butter -- Ye Jacobites -- Wild mountainside -- Charlie is my darling -- John Anderson my Jo -- Winter it is past -- Auld lang syne.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REAHolmes, Bob
Summary: Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don’t know enough about to describe—or appreciate—fully. In this delightful and compelling exploration of our most neglected sense, veteran science reporter Bob Holmes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 HOLSummary: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IROBuckley, Carla (Carla S.)
Summary: An enthralling domestic thriller about the lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love. The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters. On her way to her nineteenth wedding anniversary celebration, Natalie Falcone leaves the struggling restaurant she owns with her brother-in-law, Vince. She doesn t speak to him on her way out; they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2002