Summary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: When leaving no child behind amounts to holding many children back, parents and politicians raise their eyebrows. This ABC News program seeks to understand the ramifications of high-stakes advancement and exit exams-tests that are being used to measure schools' effectiveness, to allocate funding, and to shape the future of the nation's children. The dilemma of how to cope with students...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Blonde Redhead
Contents: Equally damaged -- In particular -- Melody of certain three -- Hated because of great qualities -- Loved despite of great faults -- Ballad of lemons -- This is not -- A cure -- For the damaged -- Mother.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Touch and Go Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLOHigginson, Sheila Sweeny
Summary: "Did you know that every time a magician uses sleight of hand, he is secretly tracking your eye movements at the same time? How does a magician make a dove appear out of thin air? Amaze your friends with the secrets you learn in this fun, fact-filled Level 3 Ready-to-Read!"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Many people who have suffered from cardiac arrest live in constant fear of complete heart failure. This program makes clear that, for the average heart attack survivor, nothing could be further from the truth. Viewers will learn about current procedures and treatments, including exercise, state-of-the-art medications, and heart transplants, that have helped heart attack patients live healthy,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In Japan, where even kindergarten has an entrance exam, education begins in the womb. In this program, social psychologist Dr. Masao Miyamoto, author of Straitjacket Society; Dr. Makoto Shichida, founder of Shichida Children's Academy; the president of Keio University; and others address the true price of making the grade in a society in which only the most intelligent can thrive-or in some...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Ross, Andrew
Summary: "Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. The single worst place in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida. Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.5 ROSHulbert, Ann
Summary: Presents an exploration of child genius through the stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted young people, from cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener and chess master Bobby Fischer to movie icon Shirley Temple and African-American musician Philippa Schuyler.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.9509 HULSummary: Thanks to medical advances, renal failure has evolved from a fatal disease into a manageable condition. This program illustrates causes, physiological changes, and treatments associated with renal failure, focusing on medical strategies and lifestyle modifications that help patients cope with the ailment. Using detailed animated diagrams, the video explains both acute and chronic renal failure....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Larson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LARSummary: "An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19697 BETKing Missile III
Contents: Failure -- The boy made out of bone china -- A good hard look -- Up my ass -- The little sandwich that got a guilt complex because he was the sole survivor of a horrible bus crash -- Despair -- Monks -- Gay/not gay -- Happiness -- Mr. Pomerantz -- Juniper dog -- Tour diary: Louisville -- The adventures of Planky -- I dare to hope.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records/Shimmy Disc 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KingLahey, Jessica
Summary: Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 LAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 LAHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents LaheySummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STASummary: The Taking of Logan Marr tells the tragic story of a young girl who was killed while in state custody. On January 31, 2001, 5-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly-respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services (DHS) who would later be convicted of manslaughter. As suspected, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Slavitt, Andy
Summary: The former head of Obamacare presents an inside account of the US's failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, chronicling what he saw and how much could have been prevented, and investigating the cultural, political and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 SLAFriedman, Edwin H.
Summary: Friedman's insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today. Suspicious of the "quick fixes" and instant solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of true leadership. His formula for success is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seabury Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.4 FRIMcDonald, Lawrence G.
Summary: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.6 MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 MCDSummary: Until recently, the serious works of Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms-his absurdist pieces, the ones laced with irony and steeped in trenchant wit-were known only to the Soviet Union's literary underground. This production, reset in modern-day America, is the first film adaptation of Kharms' novella The Old Woman, a dark comedy about a man trying to get rid of a dead body.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Miller, Linda Lael
Summary: "Melody Nolan has always been attracted to Spence Hogan, the local chief of police, but she's convinced that Spence, a notorious charmer, isn't exactly husband material. He's a great cop who isn't afraid of anything, except love, but there is something about Melody that his heart just can't ignore"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2015Summary: Julie Harris takes viewers into Emily Dickinson’s everyday world in a small New England town to compare and contrast facts about the poet with her extraordinary, original insights. Dickinson’s reclusive life in her father’s mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, meant that she wrote almost all of her surviving work in this house. From cellar to cupola, we invoke her “certain slant of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1977
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Umrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl--and to see his elderly mother for the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Skogen, Jennifer
Summary: "After an unthinkable tragedy on Halloween, Jackson must decide if he should stay in Grey Hills, or pack up everything and leave with Sam and the others. ... When Jackson starts sleepwalking and hearing voices, he isn't sure if he is going crazy, or if he has inherited an unspeakable power. Meanwhile, Claire is determined to find out exactly what happened on Halloween, which brings Jackson...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKOPosner, Richard A.
Summary: From the Publisher: The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2009