Avena, Nicole M.
Summary: "Many people blame sugar cravings on lack of willpower rather than accept that sugar is highly addictive-even more so than cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol. The problem isn't just dessert, but the fact that sugar is everywhere. Approximately 80% of products in supermarkets contain sugar, so it's unsurprising that many people struggle to eliminate it from their diets. In Sugarless, Dr. Nicole...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of teenagers living in a community sheltered from the dangers of the apocalypse receives a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to save their father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGSummary: An entertaining film about Léon Thérémin, a Russian émigré who pioneered the field of electronic music 4 decades before the rise of electronic rock music, and then mysteriously vanished, not to be seen again for over 50 years. Includes rare film clips from classic Hollywood films and soundtracks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WITSummary: After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs. Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SnowNicholi, Armand M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Avella, Steven M.
Summary: Charles K. McClatchy was twenty-five when he inherited The Sacramento Bee from his father, and his ensuing career as the paper’s editor extended well beyond the newsroom. Until his death in 1936, McClatchy was a consistent advocate for Progressive politics, a crusader for urban reform, a staunch isolationist, and a voice for Northern California. This biography explores his career as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCLATCHY AVESummary: "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXKelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: No one seems to be interested in solving the mystery of a dead body that turns up in the sleepy, gated retirement community of Laguna Key except for security guard Brian Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: In the tiny south Florida town of Whale Harbor, the Christmas holidays are turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious drifter in a loincloth who is walking around town claiming to be Jesus Christ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: White truffles in winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions, kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry, Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELPliska, Zeena M.
Summary: In this love letter to Cairo, Egypt, a young child is sung a lullaby by her great-aunt who paints a vivid portrait of the ancient city as the child drifts off to sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MALKublicki, Nicolas M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBSummary: When the manager of an American chain restaurant is selected to attend a special training program in Italy, her head swims with dreams of European glamour and romance. But the trip turns out to be much different and possibly more dangerous than the exotic getaway she imagines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIKastor, Deena
Summary: "From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potential. Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college. Her competitive method--run as hard as possible, all the time--brought her to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASTOR, DEENA KASSummary: Peter Pan's sprightly sidekick, Tinker Bell, embarks on a daring quest to unlock the true magic of pixie dust in an effort to save the fairies' homeland, Pixie Hollow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TC Raven M Ponce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carl Fischer 1933
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post apocalyptic world leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022