Summary: Filmed in collaboration with the World Resources Institute, this Bill Moyers program assesses the state of the environment. Combining interviews with leading scientists and reports from Mongolia, British Columbia, Brazil, South Africa, and the state of Kansas, Moyers and his team of award-winning producers explore the impact that human activities have had on the planet while posing an urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Pintoff, Stefanie
Summary: "An electrifying thriller featuring Eve Rossi, head of a covert division of the FBI made up of ex-criminals, and set against the backdrop of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. What at first looks like an assassination attempt on New York City's Police Commissioner might in fact be a smokescreen for the abduction of his teenage daughter. Or is it a larger conspiracy? As midtown Manhattan grinds to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINPetersen, Andrea.
Summary: A wry, sympathetic, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety, coupled with deep reportage on the science of anxiety disorders. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.85 PETCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PETERSEN, ANDREA PETSummary: A PBS miniseries in which a black jazz band becomes a huge success and ends up entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANLovesey, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSummary: Carla Campbell's business, Instant Melodies-Britain's first pay-as-you-go music/multimedia studio-is doing well enough for her to relocate and expand. With loans secured, new space rented, and equipment purchased, the 27-year-old is ready for her grand opening. This program follows Carla as sizzle quickly turns to fizzle. When business proves alarmingly slow, she makes a bold decision to speed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Swinson, David
Summary: "In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIDewey Redman Quartet
Contents: Boo boodoop / Dewey Redman (9:46) -- Mirror windows / Dewey Redman (8:32) -- Blues for J.A.M., part 1 / Dewey Redman (5:02) -- If I should lose you / Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger (8:07) -- As one / Dewey Redman (5:58) -- Lazy Bird / John Coltrane (6:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Saint 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REDSummary: Sarah Green sells furniture online and has a showroom in a quaint barn in Hertfordshire. In her first year, she has made nearly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Burks, James (James R.)
Summary: Crossing the Great Mountains to return home, Bird and Squirrel rescue a baby bear from wolves before Bird suffers a bonk on the head that gives him amnesia, a situation that tests Squirrel's ability to protect his friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2015
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Summary: Wanting to learn more about Reyes Farrow's past after accepting his proposal, grim reaper Charley Davidson investigates his childhood abduction at the same time she is threatened by a crime syndicate to hunt down a witness who is testifying against a mobmoss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: Matt McNeil's online startup, Sign-Up.to, offers small and midsize businesses Web-based software to create, launch, and track permission-based e-mail and text message campaigns-and the results so far have been fabulous. But the 23-year-old entrepreneur and his hard-charging team must build on their initial success very, very quickly if they are to outpace their competition. This program tracks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Duyvis, Corinne
Summary: "In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DUYHenry, J. David
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.775 HENSt. Aubyn, Edward
Summary: "Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life--his disillusioned merchant-banker's life--and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California. Each of his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASpringsteen, Bruce
Contents: Badlands -- Adam raised a Cain -- Something in the night -- Candy's room -- Racing in the street -- The promised land -- Factory -- Streets of fire -- Prove it all night -- Darkness on the edge of town.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPRDesnitskaya, Anna
Summary: In mirroring stories set in Russia and Chile, Vera and Lucas long for a friend to share their separate, but surprisingly similar, adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DESWeller, Sheila
Summary: Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher's life, this work is an affectionate and even-handed portrayal of a woman whose unsurpassed honesty is a reminder of how things should be. Weller traces Carrie Fisher's life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. We follow Fisher's acting career, from her debut in Shampoo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FisherChristopher, Adam
Summary: "Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRPiercy, Marge
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Crest, c1976. 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PiercSummary: America's frenzied debate over government health insurance has eclipsed another, no less challenging, national health care crisis-the plight of people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This Fred Friendly Seminar sheds light on barriers to treatment, ethical and legal dilemmas, and fragmented social policies that are creating a nightmare for families, filling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program profiles Stanley Kunitz, one of America's leading poets. Kunitz reads his poetry and discusses his work in extensive interviews. "You don't choose the subject [of your poetry]," says Kunitz, "it chooses you. He asserts that poets must aim simply to "be as true as we can to the grain of life. Kunitz also stresses the importance of reading poetry aloud: "It is important to test your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Many experts consider methamphetamine, also called crank or crystal meth, a greater drug problem than cocaine and heroin combined. Meth leaves tragedy after tragedy in its wake-addiction, crime, burn victims, neglected children, and toxic materials. This program measures meth's shocking impact on one Tennessee town. It examines the phenomenon of ever-widening abuse of the drug, the legislation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009