Summary: Her feeding tube removed, Terri Schiavo has passed away. Medically speaking, was she in a persistent vegetative state or a locked-in state? On that question hung Terri's fate for more than a decade. Was she alive in a meaningful sense? Her husband said no; her parents said yes. This ABC News program, broadcast at the time when Terri's case was brought before the Florida legislature and Governor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Wanzer, Sidney H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 WANRehm, Diane
Summary: "A series of interviews on the topics of end-of-life care and the right-to-die movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 REHAjvide Lindqvist, John
Summary: Continues the story of Oskar and Eli from the author's "Let the Right One In," and includes "Equinox," in which a woman makes a disturbing discovery while taking care of her vacationing neighbor's house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCFinn, John E.
Summary: First twelve of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional order; the Bill of Rights; and the individual provisions of the Bill of Rights and the development of several other specific liberties. Thirteen to twenty four of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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Fitzpatrick, Jeanne.
Summary: "Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.029 FITSummary: Is the line between being male and being female blurrier than we think? What are we to make of the fact that humans differ from chimpanzees by only a few nucleotides? At what point do we decide a fetus has "the right to life," and that someone existing on life-sustaining technology has the right to die? In this TEDTalk Dr. Alice Dreger questions the categories that are often used to define...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Edinger, Scott K.
Summary: Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue. However you define business growth--total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty--sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services. It must create value in the way it sells by delivering a compelling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fast Company Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business EdingerConnor, Stephen R.
Contents: What are hospice and palliative care? -- The interdisciplinary team -- Symptom management and physical care -- Psychosocial and spiritual care -- Grief and bereavement -- Community education -- Managing hospice and palliative care -- Hospice and palliative care in the U.S. health care system -- Society and denial -- A right to die? -- How palliative care is unique in the health care system --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 CONWelch, Leo
Contents: I know I been changed (1:57) -- Jesus is on the mainline (2:47) -- Don't let the devil ride (2:46) -- I come to praise his name (3:05) -- Walk with me lord (2:41) -- Right on time (3:25)-- I want to be at the meeting (2:25) -- I wanna die easy (3:10) -- Let it shine (2:33) -- Sweet home (1:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Gun barrel (0:55) -- Matera (1:59) -- Message from an old friend (6:35) -- Square escape (2:06) -- Someone was here (2:56) -- Not what I expected (1:24) -- What have you done? (2:14) -- Shouldn't we get to know each other first (1:21) -- Cuba chase (5:40) -- Back to M16 (1:30) -- Good to have you back (1:17) -- Lovely to see you again (1:25) -- Home (3:45) -- Norway chase (5:06) -- Gearing up...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC NODaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOJoyce, William.
Summary: When an old woman gets sick and her garden begins to die, the doodle bugs call on the Leaf Men to make things right again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Joyce 1996Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOYBinchy, Maeve
Summary: Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 824 BINJoel, Billy.
Contents: Disc 1. Piano man -- You're my home -- Captain Jack -- The entertainer -- Say goodbye to Hollywood -- Miami 2017 (seen the lights go out on Broadway) -- New York state of mind -- She's always a woman -- Movin' out (Anthony's song) -- Only the good die young -- Just the way you are -- Honesty -- My life -- It's still rock and roll to me -- You may be right -- Don't ask me why -- She's got a way...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOEPinnock, Don
Summary: Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation. African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species. The Last Elephants , an homage to these animals and a clarion call for their preservation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.67 PINMorinaga, Sōkō
Contents: Pt. 1. Novice -- The prospect of my own death -- Nothing is certain -- The encounter at misery's end -- There is no trash -- Consumed with cleaning -- Confucius gives Jan Yu a scolding -- Working it out for myself -- "I can't do it" -- Between teacher and student -- That's between him and me -- Tree types of students -- "For the disposal of your corpse" -- The meaning of courage -- What am I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 MORChardavoyne, David G.
Summary: Overview: This second edition of the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Reference Guide contains the biographies of Michigan Supreme Court's justices from its territorial beginnings in 1803 through 2015. It includes summaries of twenty top cases of the Michigan Supreme Court, which contextualize the eras in which the justices were on the bench, giving a greater depth of understanding to both who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 CHAPalmer, Daniel
Summary: "Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Palmer 2016Harrison, Jim
Summary: The summer he didn't die: Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources; it helps that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town. Republican wives: A riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the political right and the irrational nature of love--which, when thwarted, can easily turn into an urge to murder. Tracking: The author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2005