Summary: When an evil business developer threatens to tear down the neighboorhood to build a shopping mall, Arnold - together with Helga, his annoying secret admirer, and Gerald, his best friend - comes to the rescue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HEYSummary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335 GOLMiralles, Francesc
Summary: When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments—until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRSimon, Francesca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orio Children's Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SIMStone, Francesca
Summary: Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio! You'll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 STOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.1 STOCavallo, Francesca
Summary: While still inspiring rebel girls of the world to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder, this sequel is bigger than each of us, bigger than our individual hopes, and certainly bigger than our fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timbuktu Labs 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 CAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CAVDiPiazza, Francesca
Summary: Have you ever created art based on a TV show or game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Tour fandom's history and meet creators who shape fan communities online and in real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 DIPStavrakopoulou, Francesca
Summary: "An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231 STAWade, Francesca
Summary: "In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square, a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London, was a radical address. On the outskirts of Bloomsbury known for the eponymous group who "lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles," the square was home to students, struggling artists, and revolutionaries. In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WADFiorani, Francesca
Summary: A new biography of the artist behind the Mona Lisa distinguishes between his life as an artist and as an inventor and discusses how he used his understanding of optical science to perfect his painting techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 FIOGreenoak, Francesca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Pub. 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.9674 GREMontillo, Francesca
Summary: Real Italian cuisine is all about simplicity. Using just a few fresh and simple ingredients, The 5-Ingredient Italian Cookbook brings you the authentic taste of Italy with recipes that prove less is always more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 MonMalhotra, Smita
Summary: A practical weekly handbook for the first 3 months of parenthood - from a pediatrician and parent. The old saying "babies don't come with a manual" may be true - but this is a good place to start. Parenting is a process of phases and milestones. Each new stage, as important as the last, serves as a building process for years of parental education and care. The Newborn Handbook will gently and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.12 MALBianchini, Francesco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1976
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 581.632 BIAMarciuliano, Francesco
Summary: Poems penned by cats reveal their every desire, their every conflict, and their every moment of neurotic genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRABaines, Francesca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.133 BAIPirrone, Francesca
Summary: ItA little book about caring and friendship. For people of all ages.'s easy to show you care. Say good morning, be helpful, listen when people speak . . . You'll see that when you take care of others, they'll take care of you too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIRSummary: A look at five extraordinary homes and the people who inhabit them. The movie interweaves their stories in a way that makes a person think about the meaning of home and the place of individuality in society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOMSmyth, Denis
Summary: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SMYSmyth, Katharine
Summary: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMYTH, KATHARINE SMYZamora Mola, Francesc.
Summary: Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2017