Haddon, Mark
Summary: "A fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare's 'Pericles' into a parable for today"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADShepherd, Jodie
Summary: "Introduces the reader to porpoises"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 SHERead, Andrew J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.53 REATimelords (Musical group
Contents: All you need is love -- Don't take five (take what you want) --Whitney joins the Jams -- Porpoise song -- Downtown -- Candyman -- Burn the beat -- Doctorin' the tardis -- Gary in the Tardis.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: TVT Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TIMPearson, Marie
Summary: Explores the similarities between dolphins and porpoises, and how to tell them apart. Discover how traits like body shape, nose size, and dorsal fin shape can be used to identify these underwater mammals. Additional features include a side-by-side comparison of the animals, an activity encouraging readers to demonstrate their knowledge, a phonetic glossary, sources for further reading, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 PEAPavement (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. Spit on a stranger ; Folk jam ; You are a light ; Cream of gold ; Major leagues ; Platform blues ; Ann don't cry ; Billie ; Speak, see, remember ; The hexx ; Carrot rope ; Shagbag ; Be the hook ; Spit on a stranger (Echo Canyon) ; Folk jam (Echo Canyon) ; You are a light (Echo Canyon) ; Jesus in Harlem (Echo Canyon) ; Ground beefheart (Echo Canyon) ; The porpoise and the hand grenade...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PAVSummary: The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelligent and elusive, from the hundred-foot-long, two-hundred-ton blue whale to the lesser-known tucuxi, ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, and diminutive, critically endangered vaquita. The huge distances these highly migratory creatures cover and the depths they dive mean we catch only the merest glimpses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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Summary: "You see a fin poke out of the water. It's a big gray animal with a friendly face. It looks like a dolphin, but is it a porpoise? Dolphins and porpoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their fins, mouths, teeth, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 AMINobody (Musical group)
Contents: Coming up to the surface -- White folding slowly -- The beaches on Neptune -- Porpoise song -- Interlude 1 -- After the summer hits -- Psilo-cycling -- Images of April -- Interlude 2/Sioux's rain part III -- What fall brings -- This will be our year -- Interlude 3 -- Electro-acoustic -- Headspace -- I won't hurt you -- Going under.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ubiquity Recordings 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOBStonehouse, Bernard.
Summary: In text and pictures, describes the various kinds of whales and their relatives, dolphins and porpoises, their life-cycles, and the best locations for humans to see them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkmark Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.5 STOCarwardine, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 CARLoory, Ben
Summary: A dazzling new collection of stories from the critically acclaimed author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for The Day Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, in the signature voice that drew readers to his highly praised first collection. In stories that eschew literary realism,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOOMonkees (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. -- (Theme from) The Monkees. -- Last train to Clarksville. -- I wanna be free. -- Papa Gene's blues. -- I'm a believer. -- (I'm not your) steppin' stone. -- She. -- Mary, Mary. -- Your Auntie Grizelda. -- Look out (here comes tomorrow). -- Sometime in the morning. -- A little big me, a little big you. -- The girl I knew somewhere. -- Shades of gray. -- Randy Scouse gig. -- For Pete's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Strategic Marketing 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONSummary: In Calls of the Wild, an episode of PBS Scientific American Frontiers, host Alan Alda takes us behind the scenes for a fascinating journey into the science of sound as he introduces viewers to the team of scientists using sound to study animals - also known as the field of bioacoustics. This close look at animal sound is not only being used to study - but even to save species - as common as the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Contents: America / Paul Simon (5:16) -- Solitary man / Neil Diamond (4:59) -- My little red book / Burt Bacharach ; Hal David (5:08) -- Needles and pins / Jack Nitzsche ; Sonny Bono) (5:17) -- Crying in the rain / Howard Greenfield ; Carole King (5:02) -- Kicks / Barry Mann ; Cynthia Weil (4:33) -- Can't get used to losing you / Doc Pomus ; Mort Schuman (4:01) -- This diamond ring / Bob Brass ; Al...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tzadik 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KRAInce, Robin
Summary: "In this warm and witty celebration of the written word, the popular comedian and presenter takes the reader on a journey across Britain as he explores his lifelong love of books and bookshops. Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided he would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 INCE, ROBIN INCContents: The Tennessee toad (Leo Kottke) -- Game love (Gulp) -- Nautilus (Bob James) -- Inner city blues (Make me wanna holler) (James Last) -- Bone (Map of Africa) -- Sweet green fields (Seals & Crofts) -- Floe (Philip Glass/Philip Glass Ensemble) -- To Claudia on Thursday (The Millennium) -- Surf's up (The Beach Boys) -- Carry me home (Primal Scream) -- Man next door (Massive Attack) -- Bugg'n (TNGHT)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Night Time Stories Ltd. 2014
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Summary: Follows environmental scientists, activists, undercover investigators, and others who are fighting to save the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise from destruction by Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEAContents: All the right friends / R.E.M. -- Everything in its right place / Radiohead -- Vanilla sky / Paul McCartney -- Solsbury Hill / Peter Gabriel -- I fall apart / Julianna Gianni -- Porpoise song (Theme from "Head") / The Monkees -- Mondo '77 / Looper ; featuring Francis MacDonald -- Have you forgotten / Red House Painters -- Directions / Josh Rouse -- Afrika shox / Leftfield ; Afrika Bambaataa --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC VANMcDonald, Joe
Contents: Flying high (2:38) -- Not so sweet Martha Lorraine (4:21) -- Death sound (4:23) -- Porpoise mouth (2:48) -- Section 43 (7:23) -- Super bird (2:04) -- Sad and lonely times (2:23) -- Love (2:19) -- Bass strings (4:58) -- The masked marauder (3:10) -- Grace (7:03).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Hallucinations (Baker Knight & the Knightmares) -- It's love (Misty Wizards) -- Break away (Next Exit) -- Looking at a baby (Collectors) -- Her name is melody (Adrian Pride)-- Pandora's golden heebie jeebies (Association) -- Lantern gospel (World Column) -- Who planted thorns in Miss Alice's garden (Tom Northcott) -- Man of straw (John Wonderling) -- The white pony (Ellen Margulies) -- Straight...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Hand Made 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HALGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012