Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRAdero, Malaika
Summary: "When Kamala Harris became vice president of the United States, she made history as the first woman, first Black person, first South Asian American, and first Caribbean American to hold the office. This stunning book covers Harris's life from her childhood in Berkeley to her Howard College years, charting the many firsts she has carried with her throughout her legal and senatorial careers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA ADEBender, Marie
Summary: This title examines efforts to maintain the functions of daily life while isolating and social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19. Stay at home orders, school closings, working and shopping from home, distance learning, and family events are covered, as are the mental and physical health challenges and the economic impacts of isolated life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 302.231 BENMalika.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MALBialik, Mayim
Summary: Explains the advantages of a plant-based diet for families with children and offers a collection of family-friendly vegan recipes for breakfast foods, soups, salads, sandwiches, snacks, main and side dishes, breads, and desserts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BIABialik, Mayim
Summary: A television star draws on personal experience to share anecdotal advice on everything, from body image and relationship challenges to first kisses and finding one's true passion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613 BIABialik, Mayim
Summary: The television star and neuroscientist draws on scientific information and personal experience as the mother of sons to share advice on growing from a boy into a man, including physical changes, learning problems, and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613 BIALa Prise, Larry.
Summary: A lively group of children from various ethnic backgrounds dances to the lyrics and music of this popular novelty tune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LAPMalik, Nesrine
Summary: "A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of "identity politics." When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MALSummary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPIBader, Bonnie
Summary: "Exposing children to a diverse range of literary and informational texts, the Core Concepts program helps develop important literacy and cognitive skills necessary to meet many of the Common Core State Standards. Did you know that every year hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies migrate 2,500 miles to Mexico for the winter? It takes four generations of butterflies to make the trip, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bader 2014Bader, Bonnie
Summary: Hedgehogs are tiny animals with sharp spines. But these cute critters make great pets! Find out all about how to care for a hedgehog in this fact-and-photo-filled reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BADAliki.
Summary: Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETAliki.
Summary: Describes human growth and how the different parts of the body change as it grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETBader, Bonnie
Summary: A basic introduction to the sleepy, slow-moving mammal discusses the two types of sloths and their physical characteristics, habitat, behaviors, and diet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BADHader, Berta
Summary: This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow. Each of the more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations has been painstakingly restored from the Haders' original art stored at the University of Oregon. Game songs, tales of boys and girls, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADKochanski, Halik
Summary: "A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative. It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KOCNader, Ralph
Summary: "The great elder statesman of consumer rights shows how previous administrations allowed unchecked corporate power to lead us to the criminality of Trump. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations--both Republican and Democratic--that have led us to this precipice. Writing as a Washington, D.C. activist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 NADSummary: Rarely before seen footage of deforestation and the illegal trade of endangered species exposes the vital connection between humans, animals, and our planet. By caring about our natural world, we begin a healing process that helps us all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WHYLADER, LAWRENCE
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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Summary: Follows Don Shirley and David Shaw, two high level scuba-divers, as they prepare for and execute a fateful dive in Boesmansgat cave in South Africa to retrieve the body of another diver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAVMalis, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherbo Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 MALBaier, Bret
Summary: January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017