Launer, Dale
Summary: Bill and Stan, two carefree pals, are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Their defense lawyer is Bill's cousin--a street-wise former auto mechanic, who has just passed the bar exam after his sixth try and never been in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie My 1992Hahn, Laura.
Summary: Discusses the history and sculpting of the images on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, and provides facts about the four presidents represented there: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 978.3 HAHMcCrary, Crystal.
Summary: Shares the personal success stories of thirty black women in entertainment, business, politics, and the sciences, including Iman, Venus Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Michelle Obama.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2012
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: OVS 920.72 MCCAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: Relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 394.26 AndBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 30 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities, from past and present. From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these iconic figures have overcome obstacles, owned their differences and paved the way for others by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BURTarshis, Lauren
Summary: "Ten-year-old George Calder can't wait to explore every inch of the Titanic, even if his little sister, Phoebe, has to tag along. But when George sneaks away without her and ventures into the first class baggage room, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TARSummary: Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC POPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD POPBall, Georgia
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Highlighting a different honey variety each month (orange blossom, tupelo, acacia, avocado, raspberry, tulip poplar, sourwood, blueberry, sage, eucalyptus, cranberry, and chestnut), beekeeper and chef Laurey Masterton offers dishes made from simple, fresh ingredients.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.68 MASHagi
Summary: "A messenger's duty is to care for and protect the god they've been assigned to. In order to complete these tasks, such messengers require wings. Shin, however, can't fly. His tiny, useless wings make him the target of ridicule and scorn among the other messengers and have kept him from being able to serve a god... until now. Determined to prove himself as a capable messenger despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 DUCSummary: An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRIAlyan, Hala
Summary: A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALYBanzhaf, Hajo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Games Systems 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3242 BANGoodluck, Laurel
Summary: In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins—and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE GOOKing, Laurel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Arts 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.633 KINMellin, Laurel.
Summary: A program for overcoming behavioral excesses, including alcoholism, overeating, overspending, and perfectionism, in order to achieve emotional and spiritual balance includes examples, case histories, and supporting scientific evidence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MELUlrich, Laurel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ULRAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLGallucci, Laurel
Summary: 85 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack time from the Los Angeles bakery setting the standard for healthful, grain-free cooking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 GALSnyder, Laurel
Summary: Charlie and Mouse are mixing up a magical potion, with sweet and surprising results. The brothers also dance in the rain, bring some animals to dinner, and make wishes come true.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SNYUlrich, Laurel.
Summary: "They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4209 ULRFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELSalo, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2004