Winqvist, Agneta Nyholm.
Summary: In an age when most people spend more time looking at a computer screen than out a window, and when human interaction flies by at the speed of an email, it's no wonder we're a society searching for a sense of meaning and purpose. Now Swedish expert Agneta Nyholm Winqvist offers a ray of hope in her succinct and unadorned introduction to wabi sabi. Applicable to almost every stressful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 WINSummary: 12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LETFriis, Agnete
Summary: "Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRIFriis, Agnete
Summary: Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRIFriis, Agnete
Summary: Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained. After one particularly bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRISummary: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RATSummary: After a failed attempt to recover a stolen baby panda, police dog Max reluctantly teams up with a human FBI agent named Frank. A hot tip leads Max and Frank to Las Vegas for the world's most exclusive dog show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ShAbnett, Dan.
Summary: Thor, God of Thunder and heir to the ancient and mythic heritage of divine power, and Iron Man, an invincible hero and miracle of science and engineering, come together to fight a menace that is both magical and technological.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ABNAgresta, Jen
Summary: "Sometimes big nerdiness comes in a small package - and this little book is a dinosaur nerd's dream! In Jurassic Smarts, you'll learn about the weirdest, coolest, most amazing dinos to ever walk the Earth. Plus, you'll have some of your most burning dino questions answered, meet people who nerd out about dinos for a living, and travel to dino destinations around the world. You'll also find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LINArgueta, Jorge
Summary: "Describes--in English, Spanish, and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: "The shapes in these books are easy to recognize, thanks to the high contrast of the images in black, white, and red, the first three colors babies can perceive. Opposites includes images representing opposing concepts like small and large, empty and full, hot and cold, and open and closed."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2023
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Summary: The charming true story set in India is about a boy who found the author's wallet and could not understand why he should be rewarded for returning to the author what was his. The concept of accepting a reward for doing the right thing made no sense to him! This award-winning multicultural book emphasizes timeless and universal values that parents will want to pass on to their children. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atman Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954 ARNArnett, Susie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 ARNAbnett, Dan.
Summary: Thor, God of Thunder and heir to the ancient and mythic heritage of divine power, and Iron Man, an invincible hero and miracle of science and engineering, come together to fight a menace that is both magical and technological.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ABNArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ARG SPANISHArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGSummary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa. A young boy and his sister gather the ingredients and grind them up in a molcajete, just like their ancestors used to do, singing and dancing all the while.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGArnett, Mindee
Summary: After earning the title of Wilder Queen for her role in the rebellion, Kate and her people face new threats as their enemies begin to assemble armies, while a slave named Clash may have the means to end the fighting for good.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARNCobb, Arnett
Contents: When I grow too old to dream -- Go power -- Dutch kitchen bounce -- Go, Red, go -- The eely one -- The fluke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COBAjvide Lindqvist, John
Summary: Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up .... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AJVDayal, Geeta.
Summary: The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 DAYDyrholm, Trine
Summary: A Danish hairdresser recovering from recent cancer treatments discovers that her husband has been cheating with a young co-worker and travels alone to her daughter's wedding in Italy where she sparks a connection with the father of the groom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013