Summary: When a melting Swiss glacier recently revealed the body of a hunter millenia old, the world sat up and took notice. Here, in his well-preserved arrows, tools, and leather garments (not to mention his own remains) was a rare glimpse of life in prehistoric Europe, and it captured the public imagination. Elsewhere more obvious remnants of the pre-classical past have long been objects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936 OXFSummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWICliffe, Roger W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.083 CLISummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: "[A] group of bright but incorrigible high school students spend...their summer at the NASA SpaceCamp. But when a frightening miscommunication occurs during a space shuttle training mission, the teens and their astronaut instructor are accidentally launched into orbit. Can this young team of unlikely heroes work together to survive the outer-space adventure of a lifetime?" --container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family SpaceRubenstein, 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 RUBHalsall, Matthew.
Contents: Harmony with Nature (9:11 min) -- Joyful Spirits of the Universe (10:40 min) -- Canopy & Stars (7:51 min) -- Mindfulness Meditations (2:49 min) -- Tropical Landscapes (8:27 min) -- Salute to the Sun (11:01 min) -- The Energy of Life (7:19 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HALSummary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: Gentleman of leisure, ladies' man, and professional cricketer A.J. Raffles has an unusual hobby: grand larceny. Follow his mischievous adventures with his old school chum Bunny as they hobnob with, and rob, the high society of Victorian England. Includes the never-before-released pilot episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAFBarr, Mike W.
Summary: In Bride of the Demon, Maike Barr and Tom Grindberg have given us a rousing entertainment-an adventure story in the grand tradition, full of chases, fights, romance, death traps and much-larger-than-life adversaries clenched in mortal struggle for supremely high stakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1990
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATBarr, Mike W.
Summary: BATMAN: SON OF THE DEMON combines great character development and superb writing to realistically tell a tale in which Batman must form an uneasy alliance with his greatest adversary. When a demented terrorist creates a weapon that allows him to control the weather, the Dark Knight Detective joins forces with Ra's al Ghul and his daughter Talia in order to stop the madman from creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1987
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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Summary: "Madame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly-prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins meteoric rise to success and the man who stood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENKINS, FLORENCE FOSTER BULBullock, Darryl W.
Summary: With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 BULK Darby W Scharf
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Music Pub. 1943
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFERRY, W. HAWKINS
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 FerPfanz, Harry W
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 PFAPfanz, Harry W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 PFABaird, Charles W. (Charles Washington)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1973
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 284.5 BairdPhillips, Larry W.
Summary: SPORTS Many readers of this original book, which mixes Zen and poker, will find it difficult to grasp Zen theories in which one becomes an arrow, is the ball, and becomes one with poker and the universe. In gambling, it's easier to be a cynic, but an open mind will be necessary in accepting the knowledge of the bodhi tree. The poker enthusiast has only one objective in winning money. Phillips,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1999
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Summary: "Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolutionof Mystery in Nature delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of California Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 GRESummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021