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Summary: A colorful picture book that features a young, science-minded boy who goes to the beach to collect and examine anything floating that has been washed ashore and discovers an underwater camera that contains a collection of unusual pictures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIECook, Diane
Summary: "A debut collection of stories which illuminates the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world. These stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCampesinos! (Musical group)
Contents: For flotsam -- What death leaves behind -- A portrait of the trequartista as a young man -- Cemetery gaits -- Glue me -- As Lucerne; The low -- Avocado, baby -- Let it spill -- The time before the last time -- Selling rope (Swan dive to estuary).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAMSummary: A former police detective turned funeral home director investigative instincts always seem to get the better of him. These days his job is to comfort and console the bereaved, but as soon as Luc starts to suspect foul play his inner sleuth takes over, and so do the headaches for his on-again/off-again girlfriend, police inspector Anna-Maria Giovanoli.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNDAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, morns the loss of his beloved Oryx ... considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ATWHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALDenny, Martin.
Contents: Quiet village. Stranger in paradise -- Hawaiian war chant -- Coronation -- Sake rock -- Paradise found -- Firecracker -- Martinique -- My little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii cha cha cha -- Tune from Rangoon -- Happy talk -- Pagan love song -- Laura -- Quiet village -- The Enchanted sea. Trade winds -- My isle of golden dreams -- Stardust -- Song of the islands -- Flotsam and jetsam --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scamp Records 1997
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Contents: Beach profiles (Corner of the Lake ; Kitchi Gammi Park ; Stoney Point ; Burlington Bay ; Flood Bay ; Gooseberry Falls State Park ; Split Rock River ; Beaver River ; Tettegouche State Park ; Good Harbor Bay ; Grand Marais Harbor ; Paradise Beach) -- Tips for rock pickers -- Lake Superior's geologic roots -- Basalt -- Ophitic basalt -- Diabase -- Gabbro -- Rhyolite -- Granite -- Vesicular basalt...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kollath-Stensaas 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 552.097 STEWambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: A young longshoreman's delivery of a Mexican dancer from the busy harbor of San Pedro to a Hollywood nightclub changes both of their lives when they encounter individuals on opposing sides of the law, including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate, and young Britney Small.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAMEbbesmeyer, Curtis C.
Summary: Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment by calling attention to the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas...and to us.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 EBBContents: Paris after dark / Jordan Summers -- Coven of mercy / Deborah Cooke -- Le cirque de la Nuit / Karen MacInerney -- Perdition / Caitlin Kittredge -- Deliver us from evil / Dina James -- Blood and thyme / Camile Bacon-Smith -- Into the mist for ever / Rosemary Laurey -- Blood feud / Patti O'Shea -- Love bites / Angie Fox -- Flotsam / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The murder king's woman / Jamie Leigh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAMMaugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Contents: 1. East and West. Rain ; The fall of Edward Barnard ; Mackintosh ; Red ; Honolulu ; The pool ; The letter ; Before the party ; The force of circumstance ; The outstation ; The yellow streak ; P. & O. ; Jane ; The round dozen ; The creative impulse ; Miss King ; The hairless Mexican ; Giulia Lazzari ; The traitor ; His excellency ; Mr. Harrington's washing ; Footprints in the jungle ; The human...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUWambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wambaugh 2010Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Contents: 1. East and West. Rain ; The fall of Edward Barnard ; Mackintosh ; Red ; Honolulu ; The pool ; The letter ; Before the party ; The force of circumstance ; The outstation ; The yellow streak ; P. & O. ; Jane ; The round dozen ; The creative impulse ; Miss King ; The hairless Mexican ; Giulia Lazzari ; The traitor ; His excellency ; Mr. Harrington's washing ; Footprints in the jungle ; The human...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUSaterstrom, Selah
Summary: On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really Barbara Walters she's narrating this tale to? We're too dazzled to know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the backwash of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATSummary: What began four years ago as a bold journey of self-discovery culminates in Felicity's stunning senior year. Bad judgment, impulsiveness, the flotsam of unresolved relationships, envy, and selfishness are still driving forces behind the mercurial actions of Felicity and her off-and-on boyfriend Ben, former beau Noel, cynical pal Meghan, the latter's well-meaning hustler of a partner, Sean, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV FELBear, Greg
Summary: In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAWambaugh, Joseph
Summary: There is saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast, rather than the best, in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling actor turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo, a smooth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009