Oldfield, Molly
Summary: A collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by Molly Oldfield. How much bamboo can a giant panda eat? Do aliens exist? What we would do if we didn't have a prime minister? Why do hammerhead sharks have such strange-shaped heads? Find out the answers to these curious questions and much, much more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladybird Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P JOHJohnson, Jeff
Summary: "Born in Missouri more than a century ago and raised in a Pentecostal orphanage, the creature now calling himself Gelson Verber has changed his name countless times. He's part-werewolf, and makes his living hunting certain kinds of bad men-criminals, rapists, thugs-in an often grotesque parody of the natural order. Verber is clearly suffering from the kinds of things a werewolf would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHWILSON, ROBERT ANTON
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Publisher / Publication Date: HPCLP 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WILSummary: Picking up mathematics and astronomy from where the ancient Greeks had left off, Arab scholars paved the way for the Copernican revolution and the rebirth of science in Europe. This program reveals the Empire of the Caliphate's role in developing the Indo-Arabic decimal system, algebra, and algorithms and in refining the science of optics and the Ptolemaic model of the solar system. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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French, Howard W.
Summary: For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 FREGrant, Phyllis
Summary: "A memoir of coming of age and cooking, with recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GRABecker, Joshua
Summary: Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our greatest passions to things that we can never fulfill, and it distracts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Treganowan, Lucille
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 TreganowanMeat Beat Manifesto (Musical group)
Contents: Everything under control -- Prime audio soup -- Book of shadows -- Oblivion ; Humans -- Lets have fun -- The tweek -- Acid again -- Let go -- Where are you? ; Enuff -- Hail to the Bopp -- 3 floors above you -- Funny feelin -- The thumb -- Wavy line -- Wildlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nothing/Interscope Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MEAClose, F. E.
Summary: On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space CloseStevenson, Noelle
Summary: Collects the first eight comics about a group of friends who keep getting caught up in the strange happenings at their Lumberjane camp, from supernatural wolves and river monsters to raptors and Greek gods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STESpence, Alexander.
Contents: Little hands -- Cripple Creek -- Diana -- Margaret-tiger rug -- Weighted down (The prison song) -- War in peace -- Broken heart -- All come to meet her -- Books of Moses -- Dixie peach promenade -- Lawrence of euphoria -- Grey ; Afro -- This time he has come -- It's the best thing for you -- Keep everything under your hat -- Furry heroine (Halo of gold) -- Givin' up things -- If I'm good -- You...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundazed 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SpencColdcut
Contents: Man in a garage -- True skool -- Just for the kick -- Walk a mile in my shoes -- Mr. Nichols -- A whistle and a prayer -- Everything is under control -- Boogieman -- Aid dealer -- Island earth -- Colours the soul -- Sound mirrors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ninjatune 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ColdcBeaton, Mabel
Summary: This absorbing and entertaining guide provides all the information needed to construct puppets and puppet theaters. Written by professionals with a passion for their art, the detailed and comprehensive manual contains suggestions for making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing. Entire chapters tell how to manipulate the puppet, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and even how to build...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.5 BEAThird Day (Christian rock group : 1991- )
Contents: Get on / Third Day -- Draw me close / Michael W. Smith -- Disappear / Jars of Clay -- Oh Lord your love / Caedman's Call -- Watching over me / FFH -- Mountain of God / Mac Powell -- All for the life of me / Kathy Troccoli -- These days / By the Tree -- You are holy / True Vibe -- Everything under the sun / Bebo Norman -- Surrender / Joy Williams -- Tonight / LaRue -- Let love grow / Paul Colman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Provident Music Distribution 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ABOContents: Little hands / Robert Plant -- Cripple Creek / Mark Lanegan -- Diana / Alejandro Escovedo -- Margaret Tiger-Rug / The Durocs -- Weighted down : the prison song / Jay Farrar & the Sir Omaha Quintet -- War in peace / Mudhoney -- Broken heart / Robyn Hitchcock -- All come to meet her / Diesel Park West -- Book of Moses / Tom Waits -- Dixie peach promenade : yin for yang / Greg Dulli -- Lawrence of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Birdman 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORDiagrams (Musical group)
Contents: Under the Graphite Sky -- It's Only Light -- I Tell Myself -- Everything -- Motherboard -- Crimson Leaves -- Wild Grasses -- Winter River -- Under the Graphite Sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIAWohlleben, Peter
Summary: "In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WOHSchwitzgebel, Eric
Summary: "How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre--and why that's a good thing. Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Indhold: Miller, Hal: An angel cried / Hal Miller & the Rays -- Butler, Jerry: Whatever you want -- King, Ben E.: The beginning of time -- Jackson, Chuck: Another day -- The High Keys: Pistol packin' mama -- Dey, Tracey: Long time, no see -- Matthews, Shirley: (You can) count on that / Shirley Matthews & the Big Town Girls -- Sharp, Dee Dee: Deep dark secret -- Lynch, Kenny: My own two feet --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WHAAckroyd, Peter
Summary: A short study of everything that goes on under London--from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2104 ACKSummary: An unknown evil is stalking a group of oil scouts in northern Alaska, and they soon find that not everything under the ice and snow is buried for good.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products [distributor] 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LASSattler, Jennifer Gordon.
Summary: When Sylvie the pink flamingo learns her color comes from the little pink shrimp she eats, she decides to expand her choices, trying everything under the sun and, unfortunately, overdoing it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009