Summary: Venturing into the wilds of China, it captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY E-TV BORSummary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECBrill, Leigh.
Summary: Leigh Brill finally decided to stop pretending she was just fine when she admitted to the service dog interviewer, "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too." So began her journey toward independence and confidence, all thanks to a trained companion dog named Slugger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 BRISummary: In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAESAR, JULIUS GolReich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REIGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith
Summary: Tells the story of the heir to the murdered Julius Caesar who, as Rome's first emperor, brought peace and stability to the empire and presided over a new system of government.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS GOLGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith
Summary: "Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, from northern Greece to modern Pakistan, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He led from the front and was often wounded. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II. In Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOLGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith.
Contents: The Republican army -- The professional army -- The life of a Roman soldier -- The army at war -- The army of late antiquity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 GOLBrown, Keah
Summary: "From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, KEAH BROSmith, Burge Carmon.
Summary: In 1945, the Detroit Tigers were led by Rudy York, Hal Newhouser, and Hank Greenberg to battle past the Browns and Senators for the American League title. In the World Series that followed, the Tigers and the last of the great Chicago Cubs teams of the century squared off in a memorable, seven-game World Series --Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 SMISummary: Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin: A lone trombone playing solo is joined by a trumpet in a duet until a French horn makes it a trio, and so on, as ten instruments, one by one, gather together for a joyous musical performance. Musical Max: When the neighbors start complaining, Max a hippo, stops practicing his trombone, bass, xylophone, flute, harmonica, cymbals and synthesizer, until everyone starts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2006
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MuDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
Summary: "Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of eastern North America, despite its inland location. A vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 DUNDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4923 DUNSmith, Brian
Summary: Provides ice cream recipes from Brooklyn's Ample Hills Creamery, including ooey gooey butter cake, lemon sky, vanilla malted, and toffee bar crunch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N Abrams Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.862 SMISummary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFSmith, Brian
Summary: "This book sets out the records available for research on the history of County Clare families, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect. For each type of record, it describes the background to their compilation, and the categories of people and data included. It also provides background on the social history of County Clare and how this history has affected the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 SmithSmith, Brian
Summary: The families of Mayo are a mixture of native families, of gaelic families who migrated from Ulster in the 18th century, and of English and Scotch-Irish settlers who came to Mayo from the 17th century onward.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flyleaf Press 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 SmithSummary: Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUHSummary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACBurch-Brown, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Virginia 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.2 RIGSummary: Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes!: Marvin the Martian goes before an out-of-this world court for a permit to blow up the Earth, and Bugs Bunny's got 23 munutes to save us in Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes! The prosecution's case: Earthlings create pollution, clutter up outer space and portray space people as monsters -- so Marvin's sent a missile to destroy the little blue planet. Now, Bugs must defend...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 1993
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BuLing, Vinetta Bell Quay
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: V.B. Ling 1988
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 BEVINS LingSummary: Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Indican Pictures 2006