Buchmann, Stephen L
Summary: An exploration of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes reveals their origins, myriad shapes, colors, textures and scents, bizarre sex lives, and how humans-- and the natural world-- relate and depend upon them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 BUCFlowers, Charles.
Summary: Publisher's description: A century of remarkable scientific discovery "We learned that the continents are forever slipping and sliding around the globe, like clothing on a teenager, and the mountains are forever rising, the oceans widening, the volcanoes stoking their furnaces for the next blast. "Our bodies are a fever of change as our minds perpetually rewire themselves and our genes make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.04 FLOSummary: As in the case of coffee, sugar, and other cultivated products, the floral industry would collapse without a steady supply of cheap labor. This program goes inside the world of Colombia's flower growers, in particular those who work the hardest for the lowest pay. Profiling two women with varying experiences, the film reveals both the tenuous nature of life on the industry's bottom rung - Hilda...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Shipman, Viola
Summary: "Two women, separated by a generation but equally scarred by war find hope, meaning and friendship through a garden of flowers. Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to loneliness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind a towering fence surrounding her home and gardens, Iris has built a new family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHISummary: Writer/detective Jessica Fletcher continues to follow the clues to uncover the truth, both at home in the charming town of Cabot Cove and on her many travels. With incredible guest stars and plot twists that leave viewers wanting more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Mu 4Wilde Flowers (Musical group)
Contents: Impotence -- Those words they say -- Memores -- Don't try to change me -- Parchman fram -- Almost grown -- She's gone -- Slow walkin' talk -- He's bad for you -- It's what I feel -- Memories -- Never leave me -- Time after time -- Just where I want -- No game when you lose
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lilith Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILSandford, John
Summary: "Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He'd been doing the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Sandford 2007Summary: Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved not to think or feel, but to control movement. Wolpert emphasizes the importance of movement by pointing out that all communication - speech, gestures, writing, sign language - is mediated through muscular contraction. In this entertaining, informative TEDTalk, Wolpert provides a glimpse into human motion and how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Shipman, Viola
Summary: "Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built anew family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to a garden filled with the heirloom starts that keep the memories of her loved ones alive. When Abby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shipman 2020Pinker, Steven
Summary: The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 PINEcho and the Bunnymen
Contents: King of kings.--SuperMellowMan.--Hide & seek.--Make me shine.--It's alright.--Buried alive.--Flowers.--Everybody knows.--Life goes on.--An eternity turns.--Burn for me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cooking Vinyl/Spinart Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ECHONewbery, Georgie
Summary: The Flower Farmer’s Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut flowers, Georgie Newbery will take you through everything from planning your garden to budgeting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Books, an imprint of UIT Cambridge Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.5 NEWEdwards, Kathleen
Contents: Buffalo -- The cheapest key -- Asking for flowers -- Alicia Ross -- I make the dough, you get the glory -- Oil man's war -- Sure as shit -- Run -- Oh Canada -- Scared at night -- Goodnight, California.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Zoë Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EDWFlowers, Brandon
Contents: Dreams come true -- Can't deny my love -- I can change -- Still want you -- Between me and you -- Lonely town -- Diggin' up the heart -- Never get you right -- Untangled love -- The way it's always been.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FLOSummary: In this season, the team loses Mickey Bricks to an overseas sabbatical, so it's time for someone else to lead the gang. Danny steps up to the plate, but can the others convince him that the team needs another member-- especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? There are, as always, plenty of marks who are greedy, rude, or simply nasty enough to be parted from their cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSChet Baker Quintet
Contents: Well spoken (9:05) -- If you could see me now (5:35) -- We know it's love (6:28) -- Looking good tonight (8:28) -- Imagination (7:30) -- Blues for a reason (8:38) -- Looking good tonight (take 2) (5:19) -- We know it's love (take 2) (6:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Criss Cross Jazz 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BAKSummary: Based on the best-selling novels by Lev Grossman, The Magicians centers on a group of friends who discover they have magical abilities and must ward off evil creatures who threaten to destroy the world. After embarking on the epic quest of the seven keys, our Magicians may have restored magic but not without a great cost. With their memories erased and new magic-free identities, they're more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGShimoff, Marci.
Summary: Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SHISummary: Rejoin Dunder Mifflin boss Michael Scott, Jim and Pam as they bring romance to the workplace, Dwight as he continues his quest to be Michael's right-hand man, and newly deemed "Wunderkind" Ryan, who's working to drag Dunder Mifflin into the digital age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFFKeller, Timothy J.
Summary: Although a vocal minority continues to attack religious faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86% of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75% of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239 KELSummary: "The librarians embark once again to save the world but this season their greatest challenge will come from within the Library itself. With the Library no longer tethered to humanity, a Librarian and Guardian must step up. As Jenkins organizes the ritual that will bond the pair to the Library forever, a woman from Flynn's past reveals herself to be one of the Library's dirty little secrets and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LIBSummary: With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly new threats from the protomolecule emerge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EXPMadani, Saura
Summary: "A warm slice of homemade pie can complete any celebration--but every baker knows that a problematic pie is enough to sour a sweet occasion. This pie cookbook gives you the support you need to start making perfect, homemade pies from scratch. This pie cookbook gets your dough rolling, complete with step-by-step techniques for mixing, shaping, rolling, and finishing your dough. Refine your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8652 MADSummary: The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021