Summary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STESummary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYHale, Steven
Summary: "Combining topics such as crime, death, and life inside prison, an award-winning journalist, writing with humanity, empathy and insight, and gaining unprecedented access, traces the interwoven lives of condemned prisoners and the men and women who come to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to visit them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach as they travel to unique and forbidding ice caves in Greenland, underwater caves in the Yucatan, terrestrial caves in the Grand Canyon and other spectacular locations. For those compelled to push their limits in the world's most hostile environments, the risk of fatal danger and thrill of new discovery are the everyday factors that make cave exploration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOUSummary: Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it's always personal and can deeply affect the core of identity and direction of life. This is the first documentary film from the creators of War Room, Overcomer, Fireproof, and Courageous Legacy. Featuring a variety of amazing true stories, this captivating movie takes audiences of all ages on an inspiring and emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humor, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth Films 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EARRobinson, James Dale.
Summary: Written by James Robinson and David S. Goyer; Art by Scott Benefiel, Stephen Sadowski, Derec Aucoin and others This trade paperback chronicles the rebirth of the Justice Society of America, one of the first super hero teams of all times. Investigating the death of Dr. Fate, one of the JSA's founding members, the current Starman, Hourman, Star-Spangled Kid, Hawkgirl and Black Canary join forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JSASummary: Uses an encyclopedia-style format to discuss topics including the future of food, water conservation, and holistic problem solving, and offers ways to improve and adapt to current environmental situations around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7 WORSummary: A biography of Salvador Dali, the Spanish painter and self-styled genius. "Presents Dali's entire oeuvre--painting, sculpture, writing, fashion and film--in the context of his extraordinary life and international career"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DALAlexander, Stephon
Summary: "Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 ALEAlexander, Stephon
Summary: "A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 ALESummary: The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALSummary: The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edna Dame 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 DAM-22 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 DAM-1
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 DAM Vol 2
Sale, Kirkpatrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 SALDake, James
Summary: 176-page book with color photography describes hundreds of species in the northwest Michigan region, from birds and mammals, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, to trees and wildflowers, fungi, ferns and mosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grass River natural area, Inc. 0000
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 DAKHayes, Dade
Summary: Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple, and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.55 HAYCoelho, Joseph
Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COEKraft, Betsy Harvey.
Summary: "The World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, was to be a spectacular event: architects, musicians, artists, and inventors worked on special exhibits to display the glories of their countries. But the Fair's planners wanted something really special, something on the scale of the Eiffel Tower, which had been constructed for France's fair three years earlier. At last, engineer George Ferris had an idea--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791 KRADole, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 DOLPaelissier, Staephan
Summary: "The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Staephan Paelissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison bythe Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAELISSIER, STAEPHAN, PAEFielding, Mantle
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo 1983
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 709.22 FIEGilding, Paul
Contents: An economic and social hurricane -- The scream : we are their children's children -- A very big problem -- Beyond the limits : the great disruption -- Addicted to growth -- Global foreshock : the year that growth stopped -- The road ahead : our planetary sat nav -- Are we finished? -- When the dam of denial breaks -- The one-degree war -- How an Austrian economist could save the world --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 GILWilliams, Kale
Summary: "The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021