Summary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPDelgado, Jason
Summary: "The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor. The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his way into the esteemed ranks of the service's famed Scout Snipers, Delgado saw that old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DELGADO, JASON DELSummary: Collects the original broadcast episodes from the second season of Star trek, the next generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSummary: Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Artfully connects these seemingly disparate elements and conducts a dazzling, yet harrowing, examination of the tragic domino effect that has reshaped the face of the country and created an entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANRubenstein, David M.
Summary: "What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world's largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice.​"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.678 RUBSummary: The all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WRISummary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTMoring, Annie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crafts MoringBittel, Jason
Summary: "Shine a spotlight on animal species throughout history and the ones alive today in Animals Lost and Found, through beautiful illustrations and interesting facts. Children will learn about animals lost to extinction, animals we thought we'd lost but have found, and animals that are the focus of conservation efforts all over the world. This educational book for children aged 7+ is packed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.68 BITSummary: "Diagnose any health problem with this simple visual symptom guide: simple illustrations of every part of the body lead you straight to the problem ; easy-to-follow descriptions of symptoms guide you to the likely cause and more information about the condition ; symbols indicate the appropriate form of medical help ; ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged ; written and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 MEDHanson, Jason
Summary: "When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life. In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Hanson, Jason
Summary: Reveals high-stakes techniques and survival tactics from intelligence officers who have employed the same measures in life-or-death situations throughout the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 HANMorin, Frédéric
Summary: Contains 135 recipes from Montreal French market cuisine restaurant, Joe Beef, includes personal stories, and historic facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95714 MORLoring, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.462 LORSummary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEM
Boring, Mel
Summary: Groups birds according to whether they are found in city and town, farm country, field and meadow, or woodland and then describes the birds, their nests, and their eggs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598 BORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal Take BoringFrost, Adam
Summary: Adam shows how small plantings, design flourishes, hands-on creative projects, and simple hard landscaping projects can help transform your garden. Taking an artisan's approach to his own garden, Adam emphasizes how you too can find inspiration and turn it into a garden feature, how to personalize your ideas -- using what you already have -- and upcycling. There's something to suit everyone's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 FROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden FrostAaron, Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2013
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC AARMorin, Frédéric
Summary: Looking for a way out of the numbing, post-apocalyptic restaurant Hell of pretentiousness and mediocrity that threatens to engulf us all? Morin, McMillan and Erickson provide a refreshingly unpretentious collection of new recipes, some taken directly from the menus of their Montreal restaurants, others from summers spent on Laurentian lakes and Sunday dinners at home. Also included are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.592114 MORSummary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOYGaddis, Jayson
Summary: "The fastest way to indestructible relationships is to become good at working through conflict, together. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our familyor our job, all connected to our security and survival. So we do just about anything not to lose those relationships, including avoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Go Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 GADJason
Summary: A scientist hires an assassin to travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before he can rise to power, but the plan backfires when Hitler survives the attack and uses the time machine to travel to the twenty-first century, leaving the hired killer stranded in time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2007