Silverman, Laura
Summary: When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Silverman 2017Lloyd, Charles
Contents: Fish out of water (9:20) -- Haghia Sophia (7:24) -- The dirge (10:10) -- Bharati (8:23) -- Eyes of love (8:32) -- Mirror (9:28) -- Tellaro (4:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LLOTracy, Taylor
Summary: Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Natalie Lloyd, and Jasmine Warga, this beautiful novel in verse explores one girl's struggle to regain her magic after a hurricane forces her to move away from her beloved ocean that, she believes, has given her special powers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "A playful otter follows two children home and eats popcorn for lunch, swings on the curtains, and eventually encounters the ranger who reminds everyone this otter belongs in the water"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A boy feeds his fish too much food, and it quickly grows to a monstrous size.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1989
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALSummary: When pirate Burger Beard steals the secret recipe for the beloved Krabby Patties, SpongeBob and friends come ashore to bring back the missing formula. To succeed, they must team up with former rival, Plankton, but soon realize that to defeat a super-villain, they must unleash their inner superheroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SPOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SpJ Mercer R Whiting
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1937
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Water shortages contribute to many regional conflicts worldwide. Only two-and-a-half percent is fresh, and it is therefore a precious commodity. This documentary illustrates how the worsening problem of global water shortage leads to regional political and social conflicts, destruction of economies, and famine. Beginning in the Middle East, we see how diversion of water to Israel at the expense...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Metaxas, Eric
Summary: A five-time New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host describes growing up as the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants who attended Yale while feeling like an outsider.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 METAXAS, ERIC METBessire, Lucas
Summary: "This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 BESBurns, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Life Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 628.7 BURSummary: Dora and Boots take preschoolers on an exciting underwater adventure to help save the mermaid's kingdom. Dora travels to the bottom of the ocean and finds a hidden treasure chest on Treasure Island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORWinkler, Henry
Summary: The former star of "Happy Days" uses his trademark sense of humor to discuss the lessons he learned from family, fatherhood, and most importantly, fly fishing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 WINBoothroyd, Jennifer
Summary: "A speedy hunter quietly swims below a group of fish, then jumps up and takes a bite. The mako shark is one of the fastest swimmers in the ocean. It chases other fish for miles until it can attack them with its sharp, pointy teeth. Dive in to learn more about the life of mako sharks and why humans are a threat to this incredible fish. It's time to get shark shocked!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 BOORichter, Brian D.
Summary: "Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity. To be durable and effective, water plans must be informed by the culture,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 RICPalazzo, Tony
Summary: An illustrated celebration of America conjures up a nostalgic era, featuring such celebrated figures as Pecos Bill riding a mountain lion, Davy Crockett getting outfoxed by a raccoon, and Sweet Betsy from Pike on her trip west.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 PALFeldman, Thea
Summary: "A nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read filled with fun facts about what makes alligators and crocodiles super"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ready to Read, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 597.98 FELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FELTears for Fears (Musical group)
Contents: Elemental (5:30) -- Cold (5:04) -- Break it down again (4:31) -- Mr. Pessimist (6:16) -- Dog's a best friend's dog (3:38) -- Fish out of water (5:07) -- Gas giants (2:40) -- Power (5:50) -- Brian Wilson said (4:22) -- Goodnight song (3:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TEASims, Elizabeth.
Summary: As an early pioneer in the farm-to-fork movement, Chef Sonoskus has been creating delicious dishes at the Tupelo Honey Cafe in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, since it first opened in 2000. This cookbook collection of more than 125 innovative riffs on Southern favorites is illustrated with four-color photographs of the food, restaurant, locals, farmers' markets, and farms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 SIMFrazier, Ian.
Summary: "A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 FRABurns, Lawrence D.
Summary: "We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.3 BURChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHAProthero, Donald R.
Summary: Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017