Summary: Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COLSeymour, Gerald.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEYMeno, Joe.
Summary: The precarious world of the Casper family is thrown into chaos by the sudden separation of Jonathan and his wife, Madeline, a decision that forces the couple, their two daughters, and grandfather Henry to confront their own pursuits and cowardice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENSummary: Adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kordas legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOUArvin, Nick.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARVINArvin, Nick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARVDyachenko, Serhii
Summary: Disfigured and cursed by a mysterious man after killing an innocent student in a duel, Egert, an egotistical member of an elite guard, embarks on an odyssey to undo the damage he has caused and seeks forgiveness from the student's grief-stricken fiancee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYASummary: Flatmates Tony and Gary have a time-tested way of settling all their problems. They have a lager in front of the TV and don't talk about it. It's worked quite well for them. But now Dorothy has moved in. Is there enough lager for three?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MENCrane, Stephen
Summary: The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRASummary: As the war in Iraq continues, the first measures of its psychological toll are appearing. This episode of Frontline tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted by their experiences and asks whether the military and the government are doing enough to help. A medical study estimates that more than one in seven returning veterans are expected to suffer from major depression, anxiety,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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West, Charles.
Summary: "Unjustly court-martialed on a charge of cowardice, former Lieutenant Brent Hollister and an old trapper named Coldiron rescue two women held captive by Indians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WESSherwood, Adrian Maxwell.
Summary: Rather than focus exclusively on reggae or blasted funk on the dub plates and albums from the label's issued archives, this collection offers a slew of rarities from artists on several labels that Sherwood has worked with.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: On U Sounds 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHEKing, David
Summary: The true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that followed when Hitler and nine other suspects were charged with high treason. Reporters from as far away as Argentina and Australia flocked to Munich for the sensational four-week spectacle. By its end, Hitler would transform the fiasco of the beer hall putsch into a stunning victory for the fledgling Nazi Party. It was this trial that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345 KINHorowitz, David
Summary: Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats' march to extinguish the values America holds dear. He details President Trump's like moves, and explores the opportunities he will have to reshape the American political landscape while securing the nation's vital security interests abroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.330 HORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 HORGear, W. Michael.
Summary: Black Shell, an exile banished by his people for cowardice, prepares to lead a small band of warriors to kill the Kristianos, while explorer Hernando de Soto tricks the ancient Nations into slavery through his lies and ambition for gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEASummary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PATContents: Disc 1. Five principles for learning vocabulary -- The spelling-meaning connection -- Words for lying, swindling, and conniving -- Words that express annoyance and disgust -- Fighting words and peaceful words -- Going beyond dictionary meanings. Disc 2. Wicked words -- Words for beginnings and endings -- Words expressing fear, love, and hatred -- Words for the everyday and the elite -- Words...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420 BUICall number: DVD 420 BUI
Stout, Rex
Summary: When an elderly lady asks Wolfe to uncover the mysterious source of her husband's money, he is led to direct confrontation with the most dangerous racketeer in the U.S. Surprisingly, he resigns from the detective business and goes into hiding. Can it be that the world's most famous sleuth has ended his career in cowardice and disgrace?--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M STOBobb, Christina
Summary: "Stealing Your Vote tells the story of corruption within the Democratic Party--but also reveals the cowardice throughout the Republican Party, as fat and happy politicians from both parties desperately worked to protect the status quo. Bobb also tells the story of a handful of brave patriots who tried, and continue trying, to find out just what happened in 2020."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BOBCheney, Liz
Summary: "A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHECopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHENEY, LIZ CHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHENEY CHESummary: The futility and madness of the First World War was the spur for some of the most moving poetry ever written, but the young men who brought the voice of reason to the Great War were themselves part of a long tradition of war poetry. This program traces the development of the art of war poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the early 20th century and the works of Brooke, Owen, and Sassoon. Using...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Shaw, William
Summary: "London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M SHAElston, Allan Vaughan
Summary: "Death or cowardice? Randy Harker had no choice. He wanted to stay in Lander and shoot it out with Thatcher. If he left, he would carry the yellow brand of a coward till he cashed in his chips. But out in the hills was an old man being tortured for the secret he held -- the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen greenbacks. Between Randy and the old man were a gang of owl-hoots and a half-breed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Elston 2021Sanderson, Brandon
Summary: "All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019