Wilgus, Alison
Summary: "In an era of dirigibles and hot air balloons, the Wright brothers were among the first innovators of heavier-than-air flight. But in the hotly competitive international race toward flight, Orville and Wilbur were up against a lot more than bad weather. Mechanical failures, lack of information, and even other aviators complicated the Wright brothers' journey. But thanks to their carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Australia's red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The TARDIS arrives some ten million years in the future on a giant spaceship carrying all the Earth's surviving plant, animal and human life (much of it miniaturized and in suspended animation) on a 700 year voyage to a new home on the planet Refusis II. Dodo is suffering from a cold, an unknown affliction in this era, and as the human Guardians of the ship and their servant race the Monoids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCContents: Sleepwalking / John Henry Memorial -- Times Two / Andrew Kaffer -- Marco Polo / Watery Graves of Portland -- I love a computer / Yacht Anarcortes Mixx -- Ramblin' / Little Wings -- Harbinger of toppling metropoli / Manta -- Spear for when the bear comes / Drakkar Sauna -- It's not the hunting / Mount Eerie -- Norm / Miss En Abyme -- Growing up / Thanksgiving -- As a metaphor / Or -- I will bend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marriage Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRSummary: Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HESmith, Wilbur A.
Summary: The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Augustus Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fueled by anger, and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Smith 2020WINGS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WINSummary: Amateur philosopher Dex and his friends live by a code which virtually guarantees scoring with the ladies; but when Dex meets up with old college fling Syd, the rules he lived by no longer apply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAOContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TREAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienSummary: Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SIXSummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARGalison, Peter
Summary: At the beginning of the 20th century, just as industry and government were anticipating the immanent coordination of time around the globe, says Galison (history of science and of physics, Harvard U.), the notion of time and the ability to coordinate two clocks at a distance, were being demolished in the nexus of physics, technology, and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529 GALMingus, Charles
Summary: Considered as a greatest hits revisited release, Mingus tinkers with some of his best-known works including their titles yet this time around, he has an 11-piece band ensemble creating significant differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MINAvison, Brigid.
Summary: In a question and answer format addresses basic physiology, such as why one has bones, why one needs food, and how the body grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher Books 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: When a billionaire tech CEO hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, the security expert and his team must race against the clock to protect the fate of the human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaCamerota, Alisyn
Summary: "The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down "A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who's had to navigate them backwards and in heels." --Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMSummary: On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OUTWood, Alisson
Summary: "A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher, in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing-and in a young,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilgus, Benjamin A.
Summary: Grace's excitement to accompany her "fun" mom on delivery to Titan quickly turns to frustration when her mom is too preoccupied with her mission to spend time with Grace, yet when their ship stops working on their return home it is up to Grace to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2023