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Contents: Radio song (6:32) -- Cinnamon tree (5:35) -- Crowned & kissed (4:34) -- Land of the free (1:54) -- Black gold (feat. Algebra Blessett, Lionel Loueke) (5:16) -- I can't help it (feat. Joe Lovano) (4:42) -- Hold on me (3:40) -- Vague suspicions (5:50) -- Endangered species (feat. Lalah Hathaway) (6:37) -- Let her (4:20) -- City of roses (4:35) -- Smile like that (4:17).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Heads Up 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SPABender, Lionel.
Contents: Big gorillas -- Homes -- Food -- Among the trees -- Living together -- Senses -- Defenses -- Skin and fur -- Family life -- Growing up -- Becoming adult -- In danger -- Gorilla care -- Quiz -- New words -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chrysalis Education 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.884 BENCasson, Lionel
Contents: The beginnings : the ancient Near East -- The beginnings : Greece -- The library of Alexandria -- The growth of libraries -- The beginnings : Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : the city of Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : outside the city of Rome -- From roll to codex -- Toward the Middle Ages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.09 CASBender, Lionel.
Summary: Looks at elephants in their natural homes telling about where they live, what they eat, what dangers they face, and how they protect themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chrysalis Education 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.6 BENBender, Lionel.
Summary: Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 609 BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 609 BENShriver, Lionel.
Summary: A tale told from the parallel perspectives of two possible timelines considers the life of American expatriate Irina McGovern, who in one reality stays faithful to her disciplined American intellectual partner, and in the other runs off with an exuberantBritish friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRRichie, Lionel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RICBender, Lionel.
Contents: Polar bears -- Home -- Food -- Hunting -- Daily life -- Senses -- Weapons -- Skin and fur -- Family life -- Growing up -- Becoming an adult -- In danger -- Polar bear care -- Quiz -- New words -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chrysalis Education 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.781 BENLambourne, Lionel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.05 LAMLourie, Bruce.
Summary: There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone-disrupting phthalates and air pollutants. Smith and Lourie prove how easily our bodies absorb these chemicals from the foods we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we smear on our skin-- day after day. Then they give us the good news about what is in our control and the steps we can take for reducing our toxic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LOULourie, Peter
Summary: A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NANSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACFoulke, Jan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hobby House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 FoulkerLignell, Kirk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Huron River Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Lignell 2007Linnea, Ann
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.122 LINCary, Lorene
Summary: Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARY CARCary, Lorene.
Summary: In 1855, a Southern slave abandons her child to obtain freedom. She is Ginnie of Virginia who escapes while with her master in Philadelphia. The novel portrays her hiding from slave catchers, agonizing over the son she left behind and reinventing herself as Mercer Grey to become a famous abolitionist. By the author of Black Ice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARBourke, Anthony.
Summary: Describes the life of the lion who gained celebrity status as a cub living in a London flat with his owners, was flown to Kenya to be rehabilitated by George Adamson for life in the wild, and gained international fame with a touching reunion caught on YouTube.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.757 BOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 599.757092 BouBourke, Gregory
Summary: In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg Bourke recounts growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and living as a gay Catholic. The book describes Bourke's early struggles for acceptance as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and '90s, his unplanned transformation into an outspoken gay rights activist after being dismissed as a troop leader from the Boy Scouts of America...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Univerity of Notre Dame Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOURKE, GREGORY BOULouet, Isabelle
Summary: "With THE NATURAL HOME, you'll discover how to clean everything in your house the healthy way with just a few inexpensive, easy-to-find products using tried and true cleaning methods that have been around for centuries. Organized by product and location in the home, the book includes an in-depth explanation of natural products like vinegar, lemon, and baking soda which can be used to clean most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.5 LOULucke, Deb
Summary: When her familiars try to make a meanness potion to get rid of Grunhilda's nice feelings, they accidentally make a positivitiy potion that affects everyone in town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LUCYOUNG LIONS.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOURourke, Dennis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.85 ROULourie, Peter.
Summary: Highlights the work scientists are doing to protect the manatee, an endangered species.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011