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Dykstra, Katherine Homayoun, Ana Kurlansky, Mark Morrow, David R. Rosling, Hans White, David A.Summary: Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUG1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUG
Summary: When the Colewell post office is slated for closure, Nora Pancowski is faced with sudden retirement. As she weighs relocating, a young woman causes Nora to reflect on her youth and the choices that led her to Colewell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLKurlansky, Mark
Summary: Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 177.3 KURSummary: David Milch's epic drama returns as a feature film reuniting familiar characters in a brave new world where their once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of statehood and modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV DEAHomayoun, Ana
Summary: "What if a getting [sic] into top four-year college is no longer the holy grail of success that it once seemed to be? What if the key to kids achieving their potential in life has less to do with grades or test scores and more with critical skills overlooked in schools? Erasing the Finish Line directly addresses those points by highlighting a reality about our education system that we seem to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kids practice place value, estimation and operation concepts with a 1,000 piece centimeter cubes set helping them visualize quantities with ease. The 120 Activity Mat immerses kids into number concepts through 120 and teaches place value and number patterns. Penworthy Prebound Books support estimation and visualization in a high-interest manner.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Rosling, Hans
Summary: "When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.9 ROSSummary: Travel with Nate to return a lost baby dinosaur to its rightful place, and at the end of the story, create your own archaeological dig. Enjoy imaginative play with dinosaur figures and reusable sticker scenes. Dinosaur Escape allows kids to work together, use their memory, and incorporate simple strategy to rescue the dinos from volcanic eruption.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Penworthy Company, LLC 2019
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1 available in Parent Teacher Kits, Call number: JPT KIT ALLMorrow, David R.
Summary: Giving Reasons prepares students to think independently, evaluate information, and reason clearly across disciplines. Accessible to students and effective for instructors, it provides plain-English exercises, helpful appendices, and a variety of online supplements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 MORWhite, David A.
Summary: This offers young people (from 10 up) the opportunity to become acquainted with the wonders of philosophy. Forty questions--arranged under Values, Knowledge, Reality, and Critcal Thinking--invite kids to think about questions that philosophers have been discussing since the time of the ancient Greeks. Each question includes a fun activity that allows kids to increase their understanding of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prufrock Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 100 WHISummary: "Stay sharp all summer long with activities, games, and storybooks designed to improve memory and logic, practice math skills, advance reading comprehension, and more!"
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The House of Batiatus has towered above the city of Capua for many years. Explore its deadly history before the arrival of Spartacus, and the death he carried with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPADykstra, Katherine
Summary: "A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for fifty years, Paula's story had been largely forgotten when Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 DYKSummary: M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: Jonathan and Maddy continue their crime-solving missions when they investigate a man who sells his soul to the devil; an old woman who has the power to predict death through her dreams; an alien life form that miraculously disappears; a former colleague of Maddy's who turns up with a mystery in an old house; a 1970s sex kitten who is seen heading for a local church; and a murdered corpse that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JONSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUS RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUSSummary: A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUSSummary: "Kids will develop their critical thinking skills, solve complicated puzzles, and advance their thinking with these brain games and challenges. Increase problem solving speed; Improve critical thinking skills; Solve complex challenges; Learn the fundamentals of programming"--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC. 2017
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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD ADDSummary: "Kids will dig, fly and drive through science, technology, engineering, art, and math games that teach them about animals, natural resources, environmental issues, and more. Learn about natural resources; Play with different animals; Discover force, acceleration, buoyancy, heat, and elasticity; Explore natural energy sources."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "These math-focused games and puzzles will make it fun for kids to develop basic math skills from number and shape identification to matching, sorting, counting and more. Practice sorting by shape, size, and color; Learn numbers and develop counting; Explore spatial direction; Improve memory and hand-eye coordination."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This Launchpad learning tablet contains: Shift the shapes ; Learning tables is fun ; Flippy geometry, block puzzzle ; Shaky totems, tower builder ; Tangram master ; The Parrots multiplication game ; Max & the secret formula ; BeeAmazed ; Miniwalla the forest story.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "These games and interactive learning tools are a fun way for kids to discover counting shapes, addition, subtraction, and other early learning math concepts. Practice numbers 1-20; Develop logic and memory skills; Identify, sort, find, and match geometrical shapes; Learn to recognize patterns."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019