Summary: A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Aubin Pictures 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOU

Butler, Jenna

Summary: "After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day in late November as the bees are settling in for winter she takes us through a year in beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. Weaving together her personal story with the practical aspects of running a farm...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home Butler

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KEN

Hartman, Darrell

Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HAR

Summary: Set against the stunning vistas of the Alberta Rocky Mountains, a sprawling family drama that follows teenage horse whisperer Amy through the highs and lows of life on a horse ranch. Season 16 of Heartland finds Amy and the rest of the family making bold strides toward their futures. For Amy that means taking the blinders off and looking at her life with renewed hope and focus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HEA

Summary: For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. And while he never reached his dream of being president, and in fact is most remembered for his 1968 loss to Richard Nixon, Humphrey left behind a legacy few presidents can match. In November of 1977, for the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUB

Summary: This manual represents a comprehensive resource for new and existing Saskatoon berry growers. It delves into the biology of the plant, both from a basic, whole plant level through to a detailed examination of how the plant will respond to practices such as pruning. The process of propagation is outlined, including a comparison of seedling versus vegetatively propagated material. The manual...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634 SAS

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUT

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Johnson, Dana Kenneth

Summary: his book provides a history of the schools of Alger County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, along with additional historical information on its various towns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4932 JOH

Shulman, Mark

Summary: By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand--and measure--space and time. At first his ideas were ridiculed, but soon they were idolized. Prior to World War II, Einstein was a celebrated figure in Germany, but when the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s, he fled for his life and eventually settled in the United States. [This book] recounts the life of the world's most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EIN

Harris, Duchess

Summary: "The discovery of a vaccine for polio in the 1950s has prevented millions of cases of this severe paralyzing disease. The Discovery of the Polio Vaccine examines this historic advance from multiple perspectives, including those of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and modern organizations working to wipe out polio once and for all. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J614.549 HAR

Halbert, Frederic

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HAL

Benedict, Marie

Summary: "The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BEN

Cohen, Benyamin

Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EINSTEIN COH

Gregson, J. M.

Summary: When a small-time drug dealer turned blackmailer is murdered, Lambert, Hook and the rest of the team uncover several suspects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Gregson, J. M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Schultz Nicholson, Lorna

Summary: "The biography of Canadian Joey Moss, a man born with Down syndrome who worked with the NHL Edmonton Oilers hockey team, and was an inspiration for neurodiverse people and an advocate for inclusivity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MOSS SCH

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCH

Goldsworthy, Kaite

Summary: Describes the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports, and cultural groups that make Alberta unique.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 GOL

Sarnowski, Claire

Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SAR

Summary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIN

Mastriano, Douglas V.

Summary: Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of 132 German soldiers on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne region of France -- a deed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YORK MAS