Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
Summary: It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet’s final frontier? This was the moon landing before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 SHAShapiro, Laura
Summary: "A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking--what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives--social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people's attitudes toward food, as if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SHAShapiro, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.5 SHASummary: Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master. Son of Lassie: On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures. Courage of Lassie: Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREOwen, Lauren
Summary: "Lauren Owen's thrilling first novel introduces an utterly beguiling world. London, 1893: James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWESummary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PAROwen, Lauren
Summary: "As a teenager, Kate found a safe harbor from her parents' constant fighting in the company of the four Gonne sisters, who lived with their strict grandparents next to Small Angels, a church right on the edge of dense green woods. The first outsider to ever get close to the sisters, Kate eventually learned the family's secret: The woods are home to a capricious, menacing ghost whom generations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEVarious artists
Contents: Hollaback girl / (Gwen Stefani) -- Switch / (Will Smith) -- 1 thing / (Amerie) -- Oh / (Ciara feat. Ludacris) -- Slow down / (Bobby Valentino) -- Mockingbird / (Eminem) -- Girlfight / (Brooke Valentino feat. Big Boi and Lil Jon) -- Girl / (Destiny's Child) -- Tortura / (Shakira) -- Baby I'm back / (Baby Bash feat. Akon) -- How to deal / (Frankie J) -- Ordinary people / (John Legend) -- Breathe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWContents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOULaurie, Greg
Summary: At the peak of his career, Johnny Cash had done it all: a rags-to-riches sensation singing alongside Presley and performing for presidents. But in 1971 the middle-aged icon was searching for peace. At the end of his life, Cash was speaking openly about his "unshakeable faith." Laurie and Terrill dive into Cash's inner demons, triumphs, and gradual return to faith, and reveal how the singer's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASH, JOHNNY LAUSummary: Tom Brand is a billionaire builder of skyscrapers who treats his employees like crap and neglects his second wife Lara, but he really wants to give his daughter Rebecca the best gift ever for her eleventh birthday. She loves cats; he hates them. Ready to make the supreme sacrifice, Brand visits a creepy pet store and purchases a tomcat named Mister Fuzzypants. Then, boom, an accident puts Brand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Nine 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIN RATED PGSummary: Collection includes: Them! (1954); The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953); World Without End (1956); and Satellite in the Sky (1956).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 1953
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI GRESummary: Roxie agrees to be accused of murder so the publicity will advance her dancing career. Whether she actually committed the crime is irrelevant to the reporters, who fall all over themselves to give Roxie her 15 minutes of fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Roxie 2004Summary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HITSummary: From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2011
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA MOZSummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Life can be difficult for convicts, even after they've been released. One former felon finds that the odds are stacked against him when he is forced to go under cover in order to save his life-and his brother's. With time running out, they realize that the weapon shielding them from authorities is more of an enigma than they ever dreamed possible. Then there's the fact that he's being hunted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KINSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDIsop, Laurie.
Summary: A child figures out the best way to hug a porcupine as he watches his friends hug other animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ISOSummary: Stuart Little is back for more action-packed adventure. This time around Stuart and the reluctant Snowbell embark on a dangerous mission to rescue Stuart's new friend Margalo from a villainous falcon. But the journey proves more difficult than he ever imagines, and Stuart has to decide if he's up to the task.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club (Musical group)
Contents: DFF -- Spook -- King of bones -- Haunt -- Echo -- Ninth configuration -- Question of faith -- Calling them all away -- Little thing gone wild -- Circus bazooko -- Carried from the start -- All rise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vagrant Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLASummary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023