Alexander, Jeff
Summary: "The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 577.63 ALE1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.63 ALE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AlexanderAlexander, Jeff
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 ALEFriis-Hansen, Dana
Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRISummary: A treasury of hilarity from one of America s favorite radio shows. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, Where is the bar tender? Drum roll. The Fifth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first four were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 PRASummary: Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. The film is an award-winning underdog story about The Mahoning Drive-in Theater.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ATSummary: Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEAlexander, Monty.
Contents: Nite mist blues / A. Jamal (10:00) -- Feelings / M. Albert (5:20) -- Satin doll / D. Ellington (8:09) -- Work song / N. Adderley, Brown (13:38) -- Drown in my own tears / Glover (4:00) -- Battle hymn of the Republic / trad., Alexander (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MPS Records 1977
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Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006