Summary: A comedy/romance about a surreal world in which terrorists scare the citizens, and where nothing can be accomplished without paperwork. All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer and new bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: BLU-RAY FANTASY BRASummary: The fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DALSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUScales, Helen
Summary: A renowned oceanographer introduces the Great Barrier Reef and its ecosystems, revealing how the reef came to be, its place in the world and what we can all do to help ensure that it is around for future generations to discover and enjoy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022
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Summary: Peek inside a vibrant coral reef and meet all kinds of wonderful marine creatures, including tiny seahorses, hunting sharks, and busy fish. Includes lift-the-flaps and peek-a-boo holes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JES PI MilbourneWicks, Maris
Summary: Explores coral reef ecosystems, detailing the organisms that live within the reefs, their importance in the ocean ecological system as a whole, and the scientific and medical advancements developed from coral reefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Nature Get WicksChopra, Deepak
Summary: Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to the United States, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CHOPRA, DEEPAK & SANJIV CHOBlack, Monica
Summary: "In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 BLAO'Neil, Cathy
Summary: "A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList. "We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005 ONEMunro, Roxie
Summary: "A scuba diver encounters 29 true-to-size sea creatures with information about their intriguing habits and more about the Caribbean coral reef they call home" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.77 MUNRoberts, Callum
Summary: A memoir by the world's leading coral reef scientist, revealing the thrill of diving and the vital science and story of these majestic reefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, CALLUM ROBSpilsbury, Louise
Summary: Beautiful coral reefs are teeming with life that's not found anywhere else on the planet. This diverse and fascinating biome is home to thousands of fish, octopi, sea slugs, and sharks. Readers learn about these creatures and many more in this science-rich title that uses age-appropriate language and fun fact boxes to discuss adaptation and survival, ecosystem balance, interdependency, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2016
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Summary: "This beginning reader takes young people under the sea to meet amazing animals! Using text aimed at emergent readers, each book also features vocabulary specific to its place in the world. Colorful photos make exploring fun!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus Readers and Amicus Ink are imprints of Amicus 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 578.77 KELAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: An FBI futurist and senior advisor to Interpol analyzes the digital underground to reveal the alarming ways criminals, corporations and countries are using emerging technologies to target individuals and wage war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 GOOBulkeley, Kelly
Summary: "What if our dreams could offer spiritual insight for personal growth and social transformation? Leading dream expert Kelly Bulkeley brings us time-honored methods to stimulate our innate dreaming capacity, including the latest research on dreaming and strategies from seasoned, vivid dreamers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media 2023
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Summary: Presents information about how coral reefs are formed, how they grow, and the many different kinds of plants and animals that live in their special environment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J 577.789 GIBNeuman, Susan B
Summary: Introduces coral reefs and the animals that live there to young readers using simple, repetitive text and photographs, including seahorses, turtles, eels, and minnows.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE NEUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE NEUSummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANGRollins, James
Summary: "The Titan Project--an international research station off the coast of Australia--discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROLShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A moving account of one man's border crossings-both literal and figurative-by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day War In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's occupation. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If oceans continue to warm at the current pace, coral reefs could be wiped out by century's end. But scientists from around the globe are rushing to help corals adapt to changing climate through assisted evolution. Follow scientists as they attempt to crossbreed heat-resistant corals, and even transplant corals' algae, in a race to save the coral reefs from extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REEChin, Jason
Summary: A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2011