Lore, Pittacus
Summary: 1st title: No one has seen Sam Goode's father, Malcolm, since he mysteriously disappeared years ago. Sam had always fantasized that he was abducted by aliens. But that was before he knew the truth: aliens do exist, and some of them seek to destroy our world. That was before he himself became another one of their captives. Now father and son are both missing. But when a rogue Mogadorian named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORSummary: In this program, John McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Lyle Campbell, of the University of Utah; Brian Joseph, of The Ohio State University; and population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza examine factors that contributed to the diversification and spread of languages, including early migration, the introduction of agriculture, and genes. Language...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lore, Pittacus
Summary: The Garde, broken and divided, discover that the Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans and will stop at nothing to thwart it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LORLore, Pittacus
Summary: A collection of three thrilling stories by Pittacus Lore. Originally published as the e-novellas The Fugitive, The Navigator, and The Guard, now, for the first time ever, they are together in one volume. The Fugitive follows Mark James as he tries to track down Sarah Hart, evade the Mogadorians and the FBI, and discover the identity of the mysterious blogger he knows only as Guard. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORSummary: It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. In this program, Noam Chomsky; Esperantist Thomas Eccard; endangered languages researcher Peter Ladefoged, who has since passed away; and others provide insights into the language life cycle. Topics include constructed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Pinker, Steven
Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 PINLore, Pittacus
Summary: Collects three novellas that fill in missing parts of the Lorien story, including Five's early years on Earth and Mark James' trials after the Mog attack on Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORChapman, Gary D.
Summary: You love your child, but does your child feel loved? Every child has a unique way of feeling loved. When you discover your child's love language - and how to speak it - you can build a solid foundation for your child to trust you and flourish as they grow. In this book for parents, teachers, single parents, and more, Drs. Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell offer practical advice for how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northfield Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 CHA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 CHA
Summary: Why do girls demonstrate greater reading and writing ability than boys? Is the female brain hardwired for faster verbal development? Should men let women do the talking? This program studies language differences between the sexes and explores the possibility that many communication skills are gender-specific. Following two teams of well-educated adults as they undergo a crash course in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Chapman, Gary D.
Summary: "Over 400,000 copies sold! Socially, mentally, and spiritually, teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these pressures, it is still parents who can influence teens the most, and The Five Love Languages of Teeneagers equips parents to make the most of that opportunity. In this adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Five Love Languages
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northfield Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent ChapmanPinker, Steven
Summary: "In Words and Rules, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics; the attempts to simulate language using computer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 415.21 PINGabaldon, Diana.
Contents: Lord John and the hellfire club -- Lord John and the succubus -- Lord John and the haunted soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: Eighteenth-century Britain forms the backdrop to a trio of adventures featuring Lord John Grey as he sets out to avenge a murder victim, becomes caught between an enemy army and a mysterious night-hag, and confronts a traitor and a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GABGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: Eighteenth-century Britain forms the backdrop to a trio of adventures featuring Lord John Grey as he sets out to avenge a murder victim, becomes caught between an enemy army and a mysterious night-hag, and confronts a traitor and a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GabCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION GabaldonChapman, Gary D.
Summary: Examines how different personalities express love in different ways, identifies five specific languages of love, and explains how, by using one of those methods, people can find complete, unconditional love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northfield Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.84 CHASummary: Amok, "boomerang," "bungalow," "bangle," "dumdum," "plonk," "assassin"-these are some of the many words that have entered English by way of colonial expansion. This program explores how the British Empire in its heyday exported its language around the globe and how different forms of speech and vocabulary, as well as different attitudes to English, developed out of that colonial expansion. Rich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Zuk, M. (Marlene)
Summary: Explores how the insect world accomplishes tasks with human-like precision in spite of very different mental processes, covering such topics as insect personality, communication, and adaptability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.715 ZUKSummary: The world is a mosaic of visions, and each vision is encapsulated by a language. Yet every two weeks, one of the world's approximately 6,500 languages dies out. What is the significance of this loss to those who speak the language as well as for the rest of humankind? Why do some languages become global while others disappear? And how are language and identity connected? In this program,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lore, Pittacus
Summary: Collects three novellas that fill in missing parts of the Lorien story, including a view of the invasion from a girl in New York and the perspectives of three different Mogadorians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCave, Nick
Contents: Abattoir blues: Get ready for love -- Cannibal's hymn -- Hiding all away -- Messiah ward -- There she goes, my beautiful world -- Nature boy -- Abattoir blues -- Let the bells ring -- Fable of the brown ape. The lyre of Orpheus: The Lyre of Orpheus -- Breathless -- Babe, you turn me on -- Easy money -- Supernaturally -- Spell -- Carry me -- O children.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAVSummary: This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the world's languages-25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 percent of the Earth's population. Moving from Africa to Oceania and up to Asia and then west to Europe and across the ocean to the Americas, the program assesses how many languages are spoken in each region, the characteristics they share, and misconceptions about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: Best of my love/ The Emotions. -- Yah mo B there/ James Ingram & Michael McDonald. -- I'll be loving you (forever)/ New Kids on the Block. -- Love me/ Yvonne Elliman. -- September/ Earth, Wind and Fire. -- Love will find a way/ Pablo Cruise. -- Lost in emotion/ Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. -- Make it like it was/ Regina Belle. -- I can't help it/ Andy Gibb & Olivia Newton-John. -- You take my breath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From Amboise to Blois to Chenonceaux to Chambord, this tour of the chateaux of the Loire serves up a fascinating mix of political and architectural history, scandal, poetry, and local color. The program shows how French architecture made superb use of Italian Renaissance style while maintaining a distinctly French character. As well as examining the buildings themselves, the program offers an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Foucault, Michel
Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Part II: The discursive regularities -- The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Part III: The statement and the archive -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative function -- The description of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010