Summary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIT

Summary: Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRE

Summary: The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV Ega

Almada, Ariel Andrés

Summary: "Anoche tuve un sueño. Un sueño en el que llegabas a nuestro hogar con los ojitos apenas abiertos y un montón de preguntas en la punta de la nariz...". Tras el éxito de "Hija " y de sus mismos autores, llega "Hijo", un tesoro para la biblioteca y para el corazón de los más pequeños. Un libro que toda la familia querrá volver a leer, una y otra vez, para recordar el privilegio que es recorrer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ALM

Andreae, Giles

Summary: Rhyming picture book about the lives of the great dinosaurs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Andre

Rieu, André.

Summary: André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra concert captured live at Roda Stadium in Kerkrade, Netherlands during 2004 performance of popular classics of instrumental, dance, folk and vocal music (popular songs and couple of operatic arias). The feature concert filmed in two parts, ca. 69 min. each part.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Denon 2005

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AND

Andreae, Giles

Summary: A collection of silly verses about various creatures that live in the ocean, including crabs, swordfish, whales, and polar bears.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Andre

Summary: Forget the concept of "roughing it." Learn to "smooth it" in the great outdoors with a practical guide to almost any type of excursion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 OUT
Call number: DVD 796.54 OUT

Meier, Andrew.

Summary: A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country--but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.1247 MEI

Willers, W. B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1981

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.55 WIL

Orser, Joseph Andrew.

Summary: Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 92O ORS

Krick, Robert K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.732 KRI

Summary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEE

Scheib, Walter.

Summary: A former White House Executive Chef presents more than sixty of his signature recipes, along with a look at the Clinton and Bush First Families and an account of such episodes as teaching Chelsea Clinton to cook, the chaos in the wake of 9/11, and the challenges of serving under two very different presidents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.4 SCH

Kaiser, Richard K.

Contents: Knowing your materials -- Deciding what to paint -- Designing a successful painting -- Adding seasonal color -- Putting light in your landscape -- Landscapes-step by step -- Improving your paintings -- Painting in diverse settings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.42 KAI

Summary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KIN

Copeland, Willis W.

Summary: "Most of the stories in this book were written by ... Willis (Bill) Copeland." p. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.A.W.'s Pub. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 COP

Johnston, Andrew K. (Andrew Kenneth)

Summary: Three hundred satellite photographs illustrate how satellite imaging works.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.222 JOH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.222 JOH

Lorde, Audre

Summary: "First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LORDE, AUDRE LOR

Summary: "[A] group of bright but incorrigible high school students spend...their summer at the NASA SpaceCamp. But when a frightening miscommunication occurs during a space shuttle training mission, the teens and their astronaut instructor are accidentally launched into orbit. Can this young team of unlikely heroes work together to survive the outer-space adventure of a lifetime?" --container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Space

Shivers, Natalie W. (Natalie Wilkins)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.6 SHI