Summary: This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth and how this might cause deadly viruses, such as rabies, to spin out of control as animal populations explode. The future of Chicago, Atlanta, and London is examined, as is Gary, Indiana, which was partially abandoned by humans over 30 years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth and what would then become of Miami, Phoenix, and Shanghai. We look at the Taj Mahal in India and the abandoned village of Tyneham, England. This program also explores the possibility of invasive plants and animals, such as Burmese pythons, spreading uncontrollably.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth and how that would affect beloved artifacts, including the Liberty Bell, the Mona Lisa, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Traveling around the world, we consider the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Finally, we examine the ultimate fate of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that was largely abandoned over 25 years ago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Johnson, Alice Marie
Summary: How do you hold on to hope after more than twenty years of imprisonment? For Alice Marie Johnson the answer lies with God. For years, Alice lived a normal life without a criminal record -- she was a manager at FedEx, a wife, and a mother. But after an emotionally and financially tumultuous period in her life left her with few options, she turned to crime as a way to pay off her mounting debts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHMarsico, Katie
Summary: As parasites that attach themselves to humans and a variety of other unsuspecting hosts, lice are far from the most well-loved animal species on Earth. However, there is a lot to learn about these interesting creatures. Readers will find out where lice live, why they attach themselves to other animals, and how they can spread diseases. They will also learn how these insects reproduce and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 MARDeptford Goth.
Contents: Life after defo -- Bronze age -- Feel real -- Guts no glory -- Objects objects -- Particles -- Union -- Lions -- Years -- Deepest -- Bloody lip.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Merok 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEPGaiman, Neil
Summary: "An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SANNakazawa, Keiji.
Summary: In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima--Gen, his mother, and his baby sister--face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARTobyMac
Contents: Help is on the way (Maybe midnight) -- The goodness -- Deeper -- Show up choose love -- Promised land -- Everything about you -- Life on it -- Faithfully -- Cornerstone -- Found -- Fire's burnin' -- Space -- 21 years -- I'm sorry (a lament) -- Rest.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN TOBD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: Presents a reasoned, scientifically based case that life after death is more than possible, it is highly probable. Indeed it has far more evidence on its side than atheistic arguments about death marking our complete and utter extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236.2 DSOTodd, Anna
Summary: Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to. But he’s also rude—to the point of cruelty, even....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODManuel, Ian
Summary: "The ... story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of ... legal activist Bryan Stevenson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANUEL, IAN MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MANUEL MANBaugher, John E.
Summary: "After author John Baugher's mother was murdered in 1987, he felt that he was fated to join her killer in life imprisonment--not behind bars, but behind psychological walls of unresolved grief and anger. Baugher turned to hospice volunteering as a way tochannel his experience, marking the beginning of a twenty-five year journey of exploration--in both public hospices and prison hospice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Summary: From the Publisher's Website: As one sixty-year-old, thirty-and-out auto worker said, "My people came from Scotland, and they worked in the mines and we thought black lung was the worst. We came over here for a better life and work in the factories and now [GM] closes them down the same way." This is just one of the quotes Josie Kearns shares in her stories of thirty laid-off auto workers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.1378 KEACarnegie Hall Jazz Band
Contents: Play Misty for me. Misty (4:07) ; The first time ever I saw your face (4:57) -- Bird. This time the dream's on me (4:45) -- Honkeytonk man. San Antonio Rose (3:20) -- White hunter, black heart. Satin doll (4:53) -- The bridges of Madison County. Doe eyes/Jitterbug waltz (2:46) -- Take five (2:18) -- Unforgiven. Claudia's theme (2:06) -- Tightrope (main theme) (4:55) -- The good, the bad the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Malpaso 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ EASSummary: "Get inspired--and prepared--for your best life at 50+. Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Wilcox, Merrie-Ellen
Summary: "This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers examines the history, beliefs and customs surrounding death in cultures around the world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.9 WILSummary: This information-packed program illustrates the specific steps needed to transition from incarceration to a rewarding life, and examines the many pitfalls that must be avoided along the way. Parolees discuss their successes and failures, while parole officers provide insights into why not all ex-offenders succeed. Also examined are where to look for employment and how to make the most of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Hayfield, Olivia
Summary: "If Philippa Gregory and Jackie Collins went out for cocktails and wrote a book, they'd come back with Wife After Wife. A wickedly entertaining and utterly absorbing modern take on the life and marriages of Henry VIII...if he were a twenty-first-century womanizing media mogul rather than the king of England. Master of the universe Harry Rose is head of the Rose Corporation, number eighteen on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHerman, Todd
Summary: Shows how to tap into the human imagination to unleash new versions of ourselves. Presents stories from salespeople, executives, entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, creatives, and historical figures to illustrate how to unleash the Heroic Self already nested in each of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HERHill, Janelle.
Summary: Discusses the issues transitioning veterans face when making the move to civilian life, from finding employment to managing finances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Government Institutes 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1086 HILRauch, Jonathan
Summary: Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Thomas Dunne Book, St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 RAUForstchen, William R.
Summary: "Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023