Wagner, Eric Loudon
Summary: "How life bounces back from epic destruction On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington. Fifty-seven people were killed, and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. While most people thought of the eruption as a catastrophe, a small, ragtag team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 WAGWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Continues the adventures of young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher and Mountie Jack Thornton, as they face new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town on the Canadian frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edify Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Wh 5Summary: Follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as their investigation of a young Nigerian man's murder leads them to human trafficking network spanning Scotland's rural communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ShSummary: From the Hallmark Channel and acclaimed Director, Michael Landon Jr. comes the continuation of When Calls the Heart in the When Calls the Heart Season 9 Collector's Edition. Inspired by the beloved books by Janette Oke; Season Nine continues the story of love, hope, courage, and faith on the Canadian frontier. Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as she faces new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edify Films 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "... reveals the story of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as she leaves her privileged upbringing behind in hope of establishing a new life on the Canadian frontier." -- container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHESummary: Follows the continuing story of teacher Elizabeth Thatcher, widow Abigail Stanton, Constable Jack Thornton and the other residents of the 19th century Canadian coal mining company town of Coal Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Wh 2Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: Basketball champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event from director Malcolm D. Lee. This transformational journey is a manic mash-up of two worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect with their kids. When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I.,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SPACopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPAWaller, Ericka
Summary: "Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the face of life's challenges. George is a grumpy, belligerent old man who has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn't want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him. Dan has OCD but has channeled his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALParsons, Gram
Contents: GP. Still feeling blue / Gram Parsons (2:38) -- We'll sweep out the ashes in the morning / Joyce Allsup (3:13) -- A song for you / Gram Parsons (4:57) -- Streets of Baltimore / Tompall Glaser, Harlan Howard (2:50) -- She / Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge (4:55) -- That's all it took / Darrell Edwards, Carlos Grier, George Jones (2:57) -- The new soft shoe / Gram Parsons (3:52) -- Kiss the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARSummary: Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICSummary: The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry 'Bottomless Pit' Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Some of them are reunited with loved ones. Some remain forever missing. All are part of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITWeiner, Eric
Summary: Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Auio 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 910.4 WeinerWeiner, Eric
Summary: Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 WEIWeiner, Eric.
Summary: Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the listener from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audiobooks 2008
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Weiner, Eric
Summary: After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 WEISummary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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3 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WINWeiner, Eric.
Summary: Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008