Summary: Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2001

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 297.09 ISL

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISL

Summary: Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MON

Summary: The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MON

Summary: Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, NOVA will explore the awesome beauty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLA

Summary: "In season two, the gang attemps to cash in on Brickleberry Lake's mysterious healing powers, Steve is all fired up to meet Flamey the Bear, Woody's porn star past is revealed, and when Connie gives birth to the son of Satan, the race is on to prevent the Aparkalypse!" /

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRI

Summary: Relying heavily on the correspondence between the second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams, this joint biography sheds light on the characters of two people who played crictical roles in the history of the United States and on the tumultuous times through which they lived. He was a participant in the Continental Congress and a wartime emissary to France as well as becoming the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOH

Summary: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AME

Summary: Enter the mythical world of the Gargoyles and get to know the ancient creatures that once guarded a medieval Scottish fortress, and who now have come alive at night to protect the city of Manhattan from evil.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAR

Summary: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Episode includes: Magic and the Brains: Are the secrets behind the world's greatest magic tricks...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD N

Summary: The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NAL

Summary: Summer is here, and for the Robertson's that means more pranks, parties, and, for Korie, planning for John Luke's big wedding. While the guys are busy bowling, golfing, and goofing, Korie finds shopping for engagement presents not so easy with Si and Kay along for the ride. As Jase and the gang attempt to work as a NASCAR pit crew, Korie and Willie take to the courts challenging John Luke and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUS

Summary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H

Summary: "Portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2002

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANS

Summary: Dr. Alice Roberts and her team scour Europe to unearth ancient relics and sites that may act as the missing piece for entire generations in this thrilling series.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIG

Summary: Hunting for treasure, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about the amazing creatures of the coral reef.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholstic 1998

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 574.91 COL

Cole, Joanna.

Summary: The Magic School Bus turns into a giant salmon and takes them on an incredible journey upstream.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 597.56 COL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set MSB 597.56 Cole 1997

Krulik, Nancy E.

Summary: The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about bats when they accidently transform the Magic School Bus and then themselves into creatures of the night while trying to find out what their teacher has done with their parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 599.4 COL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set MSB 599.4 Krulik 1996

Summary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HER

Summary: Join the class as they learn how plants and animals survive in the desert. It's one hot field trip!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set MSB 577.74 Cole 1996

Cole, Joanna

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set MSB 551.48 Relf 1996

Summary: Explore Istanbul and Turquoise coast.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.6104 RUD

Summary: Come along with Ms. Frizzle and the gang to the Arctic Circle as they learn it's not just about getting warm, but finding a way to keep the heat you have.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set MSB 536.221 Cole 1998

Cole, Joanna

Summary: Find out when you join the class on an exciting field trip to a real live bog, where they learn all about bog beasts and butterflies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591 COL