Summary: Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a sense of himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1999
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Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Sachar, Louis
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Holes, Frank.
Summary: Michigan?s legendary Dogman returns in Nagual: Dawn of the Dogmen by Frank Holes, Jr. The third book in the series is a masterful blend of fantasy and folklore, delving into the pre-dawn history of the mysterious creature and then rushing forward to the present day. The supernatural beast is seen from two fronts. The first encounter, part of a 1700s French fur-trader?s dream, chronicles the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Pub. 2009
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Summary: Action in the story centers around the weird sightings and dark introductions that occur every year in the deep woods of the Northern Midwest. In an extravagant science fiction-mystery-horror novel, the author deconstructs the pulse of the natural world between man and mystery when an unidentified mysterious beast-animal haunts the small (fictitious) town of Sigma, Michigan. In this terrifying...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Publishing 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLRovelli, Carlo
Summary: "Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole's core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Holes, Paul
Summary: "From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I'm drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLES, PAUL HOLHoles, Frank
Summary: Dogman's Back! The legends of the Michigan Dogman come alive in six haunting tales by folklore author, Frank Holes, Jr. Based upon both mythology and alleged real stories of the beast, this collection is sure to fire the imagination! Spanning the decades and the geography of the Great Lakes State, Frank weaves: * A mysterious police report of an unsolvable death in Manistee County * A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The universe is a strange and violent place: full of regions spewing out energy on an unimaginable scale and objects so massive not even light can escape from them. With the discovery of quasars (extremely luminous, compact objects in the hearts of ancient galaxies), the picture of the universe has become even more complex. This program examines possible mechanisms responsible for such enormous...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Fountains of Wayne (Musical group)
Contents: The summer place (3:31) -- Richie and Ruben (3:32) -- Acela (3:13) -- Someone's gonna break your heart (3:54) -- Action hero (4:00) -- A dip in the ocean (3:35) -- Cold comfort flowers (4:26) -- A road song (4:26) -- Workingman's hands (2:39) -- Hate to see you like this (4:14) -- Radio bar (2:56) -- Firelight waltz (3:14) -- Cemetery guns (2:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FOUHankin, Rebecca
Summary: "An introduction to quasars and black holes with information about their formation and characteristics. Includes diagrams, fun facts, a glossary, a resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 HANGubser, Steven Scott
Summary: Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality--a viewpoint many shared. This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 GUBFoxe, Steve
Summary: Mr. Kazarian's evil cousin Kronkhold has a black hole generator, and it is up to the alien librarian and the four students who know his secret to stop Kronkhold before his device swallows Earth, and the rest of the solar system--and get back to Earth in time for TJ, Dani, Shea, and Walden to make their class presentation on Albert Einstein.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FOXMuse (Rock group)
Contents: Take a bow -- Starlight -- Supermassive black hole -- Map of the problematique -- Soldier's poem -- Invincible -- Assassin -- Exo-politics -- City of delusion -- Hoodoo -- Knights of Cydonia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This Science Screen Report details the long history of speculation that led to theoretical awareness of black holes, as well as the eventual confirmation that they exist based on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and terrestrial radio telescopes. The program presents solid discussions of the relationship these objects have to quantum particle behavior, antimatter, and the origins of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Moothart, Charles
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Ferguson, Kitty.
Summary: What is a black hole? How does it 'work'? Could we survive a visit to one ... perhaps even venture inside? What would we find? Have we yet discovered any real black holes? And what do black holes teach us about the mysteries of our Universe? These are just a few of the tantalizing questions examined in this tour-de-force, jargon-free review of one of the most fascinating topics in modern...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.8875 FERSachar, Louis
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0000
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Summary: "Go on a high-interest, interactive exploration of black holes using cutting-edge AR technology"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 KURPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLDeCristofano, Carolyn Cinami
Summary: "An accessible introduction to black holes: what they are, how they form, and how scientists find them. This expanded edition includes updated facts and a new chapter on the first-ever photograph of a black hole"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 DECFreeman, Tina.
Summary: This illustrated version of the traditional counting rhyme shows a doctor becoming increasingly annoyed as one monkey after another bumps his or her head while jumping on the bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play 2001