Jensen, Frances E.
Summary: "An internationally respected neurologist offers a revolutionary look at the brains of adolescents, providing surprising insights--including why smart kids often do stupid things--and practical advice for adults and teens.In this groundbreaking, accessible book, Dr. Frances E. Jensen, a mother, teacher, researcher, and internationally known expert in neurology, introduces us to the mystery and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 JENContents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRESummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAMSummary: 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: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: Set in a British register office, where people come to record life's big events: births, marriages, and deaths. Senior Registrar Kate Dickenson juggles a hectic personal life with grumpy teenagers and longtime partner Rob, while dealing with the emotional toll the job has on her. After a big promotion, jealous colleague Judy threatens to reveal an indiscretion Kate had with her handsome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOVSummary: Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MCCSummary: In 1979 apartheid-era South Africa, two men imprisoned in Pretoria Prison plot to escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ESCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ESCJACOBS, FRANCES E
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1941
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Place a hold to request this item.Ruffin, Frances E.
Summary: Profiles the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, and an advisor to presidents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUSummary: A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWRoos-van Hessen, Frieda E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest Day Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ROOErickson, Carolly
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERISummary: Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD LittleSummary: Silas and Jamal are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of marijuana. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGBenson, Barbara E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 BEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 634.98 BEN
Summary: Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC TRASummary: Shawn, Gus and Juliet have relocated to San Francisco. After Juliet's partner Sam is shot, the Psych team attempts to find out who did it and why. Additionally, while a mysterious organization is blackmailing Juliet (by insinuating she has done something illegal), Shawn refuses to get married until he can locate his grandmother's stolen engagement ring, Chief Vick's daughter Iris has fallen in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PSYContents: Mickey's monkey (the Hollies) -- As long as I know he's mine (Julie Grant) -- Money (that's what I want) the Undertakers -- I want a love I can see (John Leyton and the Leroys) -- Sweet thing (Georgie Fame) -- I'll be doggone (Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas) -- Two lovers (Louise Cordet) -- Shake Sherry shake (Bern Elliott and the Fenmen) -- You really got a hold on me (Small Faces) -- The way...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ONShecter, Vicky Alvear
Summary: Explores the realms of Norse mythology and the gods, giants, elves, and monsters that can be found there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHESummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2014