Summary: 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...
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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 2010Robey, Katherine Crawford
Summary: In Tor & Raven arefriends, Tor, a King shepherd, finds a Petoskey stone on the beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He hopes that the rare stone will bring him a friend. Meanwhile in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Raven, too, finds a remarkable stone, a heart-shaped rock, right in the middle of the print of a bear paw. That night a great West Wind arises and blows Raven all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROBSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSander, Richard Henry
Summary: Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.26 SANKingston, Maxine Hong
Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINHogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGSummary: During this exciting pivotal season: Clark faces rogue Kryptonians, Lex Luthor launches a vicious political campaign, the Fortress of Solitude rises, Clark's love for Lana Lang deepens and he and Lois Lane remain friendly adversaries, Clark crosses paths with AC (aka Aquaman), Victor Stone (aka Cyborg) and the mysterious Milton Fine (aka Brainiac).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Series Smallville 2011 Season 5Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMAMakino, Aoi
Summary: After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NOTDundee, Wayne D.
Summary: "The road to justice is sometimes long, narrow, and fraught with peril. That don't matter none to Lone McGantry. He'll stop at nothing to catch the lawbreaker in his sights. On the trail of the owlhoot who tricked him and stole his horse, former army scout Lone McGantry encounters a female bounty hunter and discovers she's after the same culprit. Seeing an advantage to working together, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "In the desperate battle with All For One and his minions, the U.A. students are pushing themselves to their absolute limits. Everywhere, the villains have the upper hand. As the floating U.A. island falls out of the sky, Ochaco and Asui fight Himiko Toga, and Midoriya squares off with Tomura. All For One's new form appears all but unstoppable, and if he reaches Tomura, all is lost. But one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2024
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Summary: "When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Toussaint on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARScott, Jenny
Summary: Twelve-year-old Olivia is psychic! With her friend Sebastian's help, she creates a blog called Clairvoyant Claire on which she posts her predictions. But when Olivia posts her vision that a pirate treasure will be stolen, people do not believe her. But with a dramatic arrest her prediction turns out to be true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, and imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCOMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away! In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUSteel, Danielle
Summary: Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEFrith, Michael K.
Summary: A youngster plans all the things he will teach his puppy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1973
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FRIStevenson, Robin
Summary: "A rhyming alphabet book featuring a family who have lost their dog at a Pride parade."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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Summary: "The terrifying fusion of Tomura and All For One now seems unstoppable. Since the villains have the upper hand, even the president of the United States is considering the unthinkable--capitulating to Tomura. But Mirko, Edgeshot, and Jeanist are still on the scene, holding on for dear life. The heroes' big plan was always to pit Midoriya against Tomura, and when the young hero finally arrives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2024
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Summary: "Deep in the tropical forest of Costa Rica, ten sticky frog eggs cling to a leaf. Only nine eggs hatch. Only eight tadpoles wind up in the water below. What will it take to survive the countdown to adulthood and begin the cycle again? This beautifully designed, color-drenched introduction to frog metamorphosis peeks at this animal's habitats and predators as it illustrates competition and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.8 PIEGianferrari, Maria
Summary: "Join a young child and their dog as they experience every minute of the day to its fullest from the second they wake up to the moment they fall asleep. Readers will love barking, wagging, and sniffing along with the gentle cues in the book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GLAPalmer, Bobby
Summary: A young man walks into the woods on the worst morning of his life and finds something there that will change everything. It's a tale that might seem familiar. But how it speaks to you will depend on how you've lived until now. Sometimes, to get out of the woods, you have to go into them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, (I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIOSummary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LEVSchachner, Judith Byron.
Summary: Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat who'd rather be his Chihuahua alter ego, is determined to attend dog obedience school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SKIOda, Tomohito
Summary: "Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's time for the national health exam at Itan High, and the excitement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019