Sykes, Plum
Summary: "Internationally bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes Plum Sykes returns with PARTY GIRLS DIE IN PEARLS, a charming murder mystery set at Oxford University in the 1980s. After Oxford's most popular classmate is found dead, new students Ursula Flowerbutton and Nancy Feingold believe she has been murdered and work to solve the mystery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKSummary: Dev is a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and personal, Dev's story takes him through subjects as diverse as the plight of the elderly, the immigrant experience, and how to find the most delicious pasta for dinner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASHechtman, Betty
Summary: "Asked to write a celebration of life book for the funeral of a former client, writer for hire Veronica Blackstone finds herself questioning the death. No one quite knows what happened and the prominent family are more concerned with their image than the truth. While celebrating her client's life, Veronica searches for the truth about her death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HECBohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn
Summary: "Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is not your typical private eye. Armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water by her dramatically disposed mother, and a Japanese mingei tucked in her pocket (a good luck charm from her Sherlock Holmes-obsessed father) Tink spends her time sniffing out delinquent dads in the San Francisco Bay area and honing her detective skills. But when her best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHSummary: Swimming, bathing, washing clothes, and fishing-these are everyday activities that put people in the developing world at risk of catching bilharzia (or schistosomiasis), if the water is infected with eggs of the schistosome worm. Left untreated, the disease can eventually block internal organs such as the liver and intestine, often leading to death. Children are especially at risk, with even a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Kala-azar, the common name for visceral leishmaniasis, is characterized by irregular bouts of fever, substantial weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and anemia. If left untreated it is almost certainly fatal. This program was filmed in the Indian state of Bihar, where 90 percent of the country's kala-azar cases are located. Forty per cent of these cases are now resistant to the drugs...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease commonly known as elephantiasis, results in massive swelling of the limbs and genitals, leading to severe disability. Over 40 million people are seriously incapacitated and disfigured by it, with millions more at risk. Now an ambitious campaign is underway to eliminate the disease globally by interrupting its transmission. Two...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: When polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are now acting as disease reservoirs, with children the hardest-hit demographic and with travelers re-infecting other countries once thought invulnerable....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Willan, Jane
Summary: The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey's sexton is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILCasanova, Mary.
Summary: Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CASSummary: This program travels to Cambodia, where 1 in 10 people carry hepatitis B, a major cause of liver cancer. Mothers often transmit the virus to their babies during childbirth, and children can pass the infection to each other through even the most minor cuts and scratches. At London's Hammersmith Hospital, pioneering new surgery makes it possible for patients to survive advanced liver cancer. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: It is estimated that every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria. Medicines continue to be the main tool in fighting it-but, with growing resistance to existing drugs, there is an urgent need to discover new ones and distribute them at affordable prices in poor, disease-endemic countries. The major obstacle to the discovery of new anti-malarials is the lack of global investment in drug research...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This year alone, eight million people will become infected with tuberculosis. Like the common cold, TB spreads through the air when sufferers cough, sneeze, spit, or just talk. One needs only to inhale a few germs to catch it. This program tracks the disease, its impact, and the science behind it, from the U.K. to India to Malawi. At the Imperial College in London, Professor Douglas Young is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Teagan, Erin
Summary: "Luciana is over the moon--she's going to Space Camp! But when she's picked to lead her team in a robot challenge, instead of rocketing her crew to success she steers them straight into trouble. After that, her teammates don't trust her. In fact, Luci's pretty sure they don't even like her. It's great to be good at science--but Luci learns that it's not enough. If she's ever going to make it to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Virtually every child in the world, rich or poor, is infected early in life by a vicious bug called rotavirus. The lucky ones show no symptoms-they simply become immune. Others develop severe diarrhea. Given the best medicine, the victims recover. However, in developing countries, where even simple rehydration therapy may be hard to come by, rotavirus is lethal, killing around 400,000 children...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Drakeford, Scott
Summary: "Scott Drakeford's epic fantasy debut, Rise of the Mages combines gripping, personal vengeance with compelling characters for an action packed first book in a trilogy. Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRASutherland, Tui
Summary: The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy -- a foretelling that calls for great sacrifice. Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy, raised in a hidden cave and enlisted, against their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Sutherland, Tui
Summary: "Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious prophecy they have been taught. The five "chosen" dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs - and hidden away for years - all to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUTJackson, Milt.
Contents: Statement / Milt Jackson (5:28) -- Slowly / Kermit Goell, David Raksin (3:02) -- A thrill from the blues / Milt Jackson (5:42) -- Paris blues / Duke Ellington (2:54) -- Put off (5:34) ; A beautiful romance (2:26) / Milt Jackson -- Sonnymoon for two / Sonny Rollins (5:57) -- The bad and the beautiful / David Raksin (3:07) -- Blues for Juanita / Milt Jackson (5:38) -- I got it bad and that ain't...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JACKeene, Carolyn.
Summary: Nancy Drew and her friend George Bess win a vacation to an eco-resort in Costa Rica. But after a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents," it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of her friends, Nancy takes on the case to get to the bottom of it before the entire week at Casa Verde is ruined--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Coltrane, John
Contents: Greensleeves -- Naima -- Impressions -- Spiritual -- Chasin' the Trane -- Soul eyes -- Miles' mode -- What's new -- In a sentimental mood -- Take the Coltrane -- My one and only love -- After the rain -- Afro-blue -- I want to talk about you -- Alabama -- Crescent -- Bessie's blues -- A love supreme : (Part one : Acknowledgement) -- Nature boy -- Chim chim cheree -- Dear Lord -- Living space --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COLScott, Shirley
Contents: Just in time -- Squeeze me (but don't tease me) -- Mean, angry, nasty and lowdown -- Can't buy me love -- Like blue -- Cute -- Rapid shave -- That's for me -- The theme.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ScottWebster, Ben.
Contents: Someone to watch over me / G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) (4:28) -- In a mellow tone (Ellington) (4:24) -- Over the rainbow (Arlen, Harburg) (4:40) -- Our love is here to stay (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) (2:46) -- The single petal of a rose (Ellington) (3:18) -- See you at the fair (Webster) (6:12) -- Stardust (Carmichael, Parish) (2:24) -- Fall of love (Tiompkin, Washington) (2:44) -- While we're...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WebstWinters, Mary
Summary: "When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023