Summary: "Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50countries for a week-long seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 PENGerman, Mike
Summary: Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 GERBeck, Sam
Summary: "Fife's plans to become an expert swordsmith are interrupted when he meets Neitya, an extraordinary girl unlike any he's ever met before ... primarily because of her horns and amnesia. Worryingly, she seems akin to the monstrous Vel who roam the countryside. but when Fife is attacked by the Vel, Neitya saves him by using a skill thought to be forever lost to everyone: Magic. Fife and Neitya...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderbound 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VERPenguin Cafe Orchestra
Contents: Rosasolis -- Bean fields -- Southern jukebox music -- Horns of the bull -- Oscar tango -- The snake and the lotus (the pond) -- Dirt -- Sketch -- Perpetuum mobile -- Swing the cat -- Wildlife.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EG Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE PENSummary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSchoonmaker, Frank
Contents: German wines -- Nomenclature -- Moselle -- Rheingau -- Hessia -- The nahe -- The palatinate -- Franconia -- The lesser districts -- Red wines and sparkling wines -- How to buy and store German wines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1969
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE SCHSummary: When the time comes for getting away from it all, Bavaria offers a wide range of options. This program introduces questions and answers related to shopping for vacation supplies and arranging for lodgings. Settings include a department store, a country hotel, a hostel in the Ammergauer Alps, and an ancient Benedictine convent located on Frauen Island, in the Chiemsee.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARNeiman, Susan
Summary: "As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 NEIMedina, Sarah
Summary: Introduces German, discussing who speaks it and where, describing the similarities and differences between it and English, and offering some basic vocabulary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J GERMAN 438.2 MEDSummary: Its size, geography, economic strength, and military potential assure Germany a central role in shaping the post-Cold War world. Despite its strengths, though, Germany also faces a number of challenges in the post-unification era. To understand better the profound changes taking place in Germany today, this program profiles individuals and families from both former East and West Germany and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Trentmann, Frank
Summary: "A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Delve into your German heritage! This carefully curated collection of beautiful historical maps of Germany will help you sort out the mess that is German history. With these 100-plus full-color maps, you can view German border changes throughout the centuries, allowing you to find your German hometown and records of your ancestors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Tree Books. 2019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 911.43 BEISmith, Alex T
Summary: Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin, his colleague, Colin the spider, and friends Edith and Gordon crash-land on a snowy mountain where they face an evil hypnotist and seek missing pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMISummary: World War II - German newsreel of invasion of Low Countries. German Voiceover
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Berlin Airlift begins (German VO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Germany annexes Austria
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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McGrath, Tom
Summary: Skipper and the penguins share a variety of adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PENSinger, Marilyn.
Summary: A collection of short poems called reversos which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 SINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Poetry SingerGeron, Eric
Summary: "NEW series. Nonfiction, full-color photos and short blocks of text to entertain and explain and how some animals with the same name can survive in very different environments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.47 GEROsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Jack and Annie go on a series of missions in order to help the wizard Merlin, traveling to such places as Japan, Antarctica, New Orleans, and Ireland.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSBSunzi
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 SUNSummary: More than 10% of Americans have German blood in their veins. Their ancestors came as religious and political refugees, but their dream of building a German society within America was largely shattered by the two world wars.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007