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Summary: Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1997
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXNix, Garth.
Summary: When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eos 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXNix, Garth
Summary: This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXNix, Garth
Summary: Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. She's also a Remembrancer, wielder of the Dark Mirror. Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic. When Lirael finds Nicholas Sayre lying unconscious after being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NIXSummary: Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history, says Eric Hobsbawm. In this program, the renowned Marxist historian travels 35 miles on the Pressburg Railway to prove his point-a brief trip from Vienna to Bratislava in 1996 and a century-long journey through a landscape that has seen some of Europe's most turbulent political changes. Using the excursion as a paradigm for the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Facing the reality of what happened in Southeast Asia-and bringing others together to reconcile with it-has become the life work of novelist Maxine Hong Kingston, who teaches Buddhism and creative writing to Vietnam veterans. "In the workshops, [they] break out of the solipsism, the narcissism, the isolation," says Professor Kingston, who was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The origins of the Book of Kells are uncertain; it was written and illustrated around the year 800, but the monastery where it originated has not been identified. It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, with some pages in elaborate color; almost every page has brightly-colored birds and animals, and there are portraits of the four evangelists. This program not only shows but identifies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: You'll never be free until we are free, said Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the white citizens of South Africa-and thanks to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, blacks and whites alike are finally free to put down the burden of guilt and come together as one people. This program follows a busy day in the life of Nobel Laureate Tutu in 1996, which begins with a tour through his Cape Town...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Eqbal Ahmad, a leading authority on colonialism and nationalism, asserts that "a nation is hard to define because it is an ideology based on identity, and identity constantly changes. And he should know, having once traveled 900 miles from his village in India to resettle in Pakistan as part of the 1947 Muslim exodus. This program engages Professor Ahmad in a retrospective investigation of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Haydn, Joseph
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HAYSummary: When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANIMoriarty, Jaclyn
Summary: "Told in multiple voices, after students from elite Brathelthwaite Boarding School and the Orphanage School compete in the Spindthrift Tournament, they team up to face the Whisperers"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MORContents: disc 1. Born to be wild (Steppenwolf) (3:30) ; Evil ways (Santana) (3:57) ; American woman (Guess Who) (5:07) ; All right now (Free) (5:30) ; Locomotive bath (Jethro Tull) (4:33) ; Walk away (The James Gang) (3:34) ; Maggie May (Rod Stewart) (5:46) ; I'd love to change the world (Ten Years After) (3:44) ; Long cool woman (in a black dress) (The Hollies) (3:17) ; Frankenstein (The Edgar Winter...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hip-O 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLAContents: Sugar foot stomp (King Oliver) -- Swing that music (Louis Armstrong) -- Body & soul (Roy Eldridge) -- Birks works (Dizzy Gillespie) -- Texas shuffle (Harry Edison) -- Summertime (Freddie Hubbard) -- Trading secrets (Randy Brecker) -- Cherokee (Arturo Sandoval).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SOULackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Rosa believes that for every princess there's a prince, stepmothers should never be trusted, and bad things come to those who break with Tradition. When she is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Sometimes a princess has to create her own happy ending.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Luna 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the nose works to help us smell. Describes how nerves in the nose send messages to the brain to tell us what we smell"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 GANLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Luna 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: Joshua Jordan, former U.S. spy-plane hero turned weapons designer, creates the world's most sophisticated missile defense system, a laser shield code-named Return-to-Sender. Even as Jordan hopes to secure America against a brazen array of new enemies, he finds himself trapped between international as well as domestic assailants. Global forces conspire to steal the defense weapon even as U.S....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHLaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: Set in the near future, describes the events that lead up to the Apocalypse which were prophesized in the book of Revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: The eldest daughter is often doomed in fairy tales. But Bella vows to escape the usual pitfalls. She dons a red cloak and ventures into the forbidden forest to consult with "Granny," the local wisewoman. On the way home she's attacked by a wolf-- who turns out to be a cursed nobleman! Secluded in his castle, Bella is torn between her family and this strange man who creates marvelous inventions...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Luna 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACBly, Stephen A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W BLYGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the eyes work to help us see. Describes how the parts of the eye take in light and how the nerves in the eye send messages to the brain to tell us what we see"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.84 GANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the tongue works to help us taste. Describes how nerves in the tongue send messages to the brain to tell us what we taste"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013