Summary: Visits marine biology professor David Scheel, who has hosted an octopus in his home. Examines Octopus behaviors and traits, focusing on the relationship that evolves between Heidi the octopus and Dr. Scheel and his teenage daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OCTSummary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHYSummary: Queen Elizabeth's realm is divided, politically unstable and dangerous. We see her troubled reign through the eyes of her spymasters, Willian and Robert Cecil, a father and son team in charge of counter terrorism and the protection of the fragile life of the one woman on whom everything depends. Looks at the entrapment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the capture and escape of Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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Summary: Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three and a half minutes. But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 MCKScheer, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 SCHPavlides, Shereen
Summary: "Through 60 impressive recipes, Shereen shows you that it's possible to make the best food you've ever tasted without depending on frozen, precooked or store-bought ingredients-and without spending all day cooking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PAVScheer, Paul
Summary: "From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 SCHLaPlantz, Shereen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686.3 LAPLeedy, Loreen.
Summary: "Lisa's class is learning about probability. For part of her homework, she has to think of an event that will happen, one that might happen, and one that can't happen. Who is that Boston terrier that keeps popping into Lisa's imagination? It's probably Penny!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 519.2 LEEMcKeen, William
Summary: McKeen chronicles the mesmerizing life of legendary Gonzo journalist and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson's childhood is detailed, along with his explosive relationship with his editors at Playboy and Rolling Stone, his drug use, his controversial persona, and life at his secluded Colorado home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 070.92 THOMPSON, HUNTER S. McKStreep, Peg.
Summary: "In Mastering the Art of Quitting the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendenciesto overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 STRScheel, David
Summary: "A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors. Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. How can we study an animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 594 SCHScheer, Rob
Summary: "In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEER, ROB SCHSchein, Elyse
Summary: This is the true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades--and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8750 SCHSedeen, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 929.92 SEDLaPlantz, Shereen
Summary: Use an array of creative techniques to make books that are so extraordinary they're works of art. The fabulous photo gallery will show the reader some sensational ways to create your own work of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686.3 LAPNiewenhuis, Loreen
Summary: The final book this Great Lakes Adventure trilogy launches off the shoreline to the islands of the Great Lakes. From hiking the rugged wilderness of Isle Royale in Lake Superior, to strolling the metropolis on Montreal Island, Niewenhuis explores islands throughout the Great Lakes basin in this fascinating island odyssey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crickhollow Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 NIENiewenhuis, Loreen
Summary: "In 2009, Loreen Niewenhuis walked completely around Lake Michigan. This book chronicles that journey, a 1,000 mile walk around the world's fifth-largest lake"--P [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crickhollow Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 NIECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 NIECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel USA NiewenhuisSchein, Elyse
Summary: Elyse had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother. She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical twin sister. Not only that: she and her sister, for a time, had been part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8750 SCHSkrein, Richard
Summary: "Richard Skrein's Fifty things to Do with a Stick will get you gathering sticks in no time. Whittle and bend flexible lengths to make a home utensil or basket; craft puppets, mobiles and jewelry; rediscover your playful side with a skipping rope, blowpipe or even a swing; and for you next camping trip, how about making a stool, lantern support or ingenious coat hanger, tied to a tree? Fully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662.2 WebbSchezen, Roberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1992