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Summary: Discusses the geopolitics of food security in the face of scarcity caused by falling water tables, soil erosion, and global warming and supports the position that food is the new oil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BROSummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VARBrowne, Hester.
Summary: London gardener Amy Wilde falls for a stranger she meets at a friend's party and is astonished to learn he is a prince, a situation that leads to a scandalous engagement and Amy's doubts about whether she will enjoy life as a royal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDBrowne, Hester.
Summary: A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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Summary: Hilarious and warmhearted, this "deliciously addictive" (Cosmopolitan) debut romantic comedy stars a woman who goes from doormat to diva when she sets up shop as the ultimate freelance girlfriend. Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets fired -- again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006
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Summary: Entreated by her grandmother to help reform playboy Prince Nicolas, girlfriend-for-hire Melissa is supported in her endeavor by her fiance, but finds the task more daunting than anticipated when her client changes her romantic perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, Hester.
Summary: With the Little Lady Agency doing a booming business back home, Melissa joins her dashing American boyfriend, Jonathan Riley, for an extended holiday in Manhattan. But she's soon out of her depth among Jonathan's hard-charging friends and his interfering ex-wife. And while she's all for shopping and sight-seeing, a covert work opportunity is an irresistible temptation -- a project that soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, Father Amorth investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POPSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYBester, Alfred.
Summary: A collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESLister, R P
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chapman & Hall 1965
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVM Kester R Noble
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1923
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Rose 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 BROSummary: A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ExSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: "Join Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this graphic novel that features a comic adaptation of the classic story Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, classic Schulz strips, previously published stories, and an all-new original story about Linus and his trusty blanket! From rainy days to learning new things and working as a team, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang have plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: A graphic novel about teenagers and their agony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 2002
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Summary: Martyr or Madman? The Passionate Rebel History Can't Close The Book On. Is this the future of comics? Respectably penning the dowdy pages of history? Don't be fooled. This is one of the hippest comics going and will be a controversial must-have in 2003. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that won't stop rattling. To some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2003