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Summary: An introduction to the landscape, culture, and people of the United Kingdom, with photographs, maps, a description and image of the country's flag, and a fast fact file.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 941 DONSneaker Pimps
Contents: Low place like home (4:37) -- Tesko suicide (3:44) -- 6 underground (4:05) -- Becoming X (4:14) -- Spin spin sugar (4:20) -- Post-modern sleaze (5:11) -- Waterbaby (4:10) -- Roll on (4:27) -- Wasted early Sunday morning (4:27) -- Walking zero (4:31) -- How do (5:01) -- 6 underground (Nellee Hooper edit) (3:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records America 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SNELieberman, Daniel
Summary: A Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 LIESummary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WASWebb, Brandon.
Summary: "Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Making of a Navy SEAL provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WEBObama, Michelle
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA OBACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ObamaThomas, Richard F.
Summary: When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In 'Why Bob Dylan matters', Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 THOModern Lovers (Musical group)
Contents: Roadrunner -- Astral plane -- Old world -- Pablo Picasso -- I'm straight -- Dignified and old -- She cracked -- Hospital --Someone I care about -- Girl friend -- Modern world -- Government center.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MODMacfarlan, Allan A.
Summary: Indian secrets on tracking through forest growth, stalking wildlife, and seeing without being seen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 MACFHoffman, Reid.
Summary: The founder of LinkedIn demonstrates how to apply effective entrepreneurial strategies to an individual career, explaining how to navigate modern challenges by becoming more innovative, self-reliant, and networked.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HOFModern Jazz Sextet
Contents: Tour de force -- Dizzy meets Sonny -- Ballad medley : Old folks -- What's new? -- How deep is the ocean? -- Mean to me -- Blues for Bird.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODHendricks, Gay
Summary: Tenzing Norbu ('Ten' for short)--ex-Buddhist monk and soon-to-be ex-cop--takes on his first case as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Growing up in a Tibetan monastery, Ten dreamed of becoming a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. So when he was sent to Los Angeles to teach meditation, he joined the LAPD instead. But as the Buddha says, change is inevitable; and ten years later, everything is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HENModern Jazz Quartet
Contents: Medley. They say it's wonderful ; How deep is the ocean ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you ; My old flame ; Body and soul -- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea -- La Ronde. Drums ; Night in Tunisia -- Yesterdays -- Bags' groove -- Baden-Baden.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1959
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MODModern Jazz Quartet
Contents: The golden striker -- On Green Dolphin Street -- D&E -- I'll remember April -- Cortege -- Now's the time --J.B. blues -- Reunion blues -- 'Round midnight --Three windows.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MODObama, Michelle
Summary: Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa función, contribuyó a que la Casa Blanca alcanzara sus mayores cotas de apertura y pluralidad de la historia; se erigió en destacada defensora de las mujeres y las...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plaza Janés 2018