Allott, Susan
Summary: "It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens' next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had fled a broken marriage and gone to start a new life; but now Mandy's family is trying to reconnect, and there is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Allott 2020Allport, Susan.
Contents: What's for dinner? -- A trip to Greenland -- How the omegas got their name -- Monsieur cholesterol -- Fishy fats -- Tree lard and cow oil -- The chemist in the kitchen -- Out of Africa-- -- And into the membrane -- Where have all the omega-3s gone? -- The speed of life -- Putting omega-3s back into your food supply -- The proof is in the pudding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.397 ALLAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "After the success of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories remarkable for their forthright assertion of women's rights. In the largely autobiographical Work: A Story of Experience, twenty-one-year-old orphan, Christie Devon, announces 'a new Declaration of Independence' and pursues economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCSummary: Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SWESummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LDylan, Bob
Contents: All along the watchtower (Eddie Vedder & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- I'm not there (Sonic Youth) -- Goin' to Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico) -- Tombstone blues (Richie Havens) -- Ballad of a thin man (Stephen Malkmus & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (Cat Power) -- Pressing on (John Doe) -- Fourth time around (Yo La Tengo) -- Dark eyes (Iron...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC I'MSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Parks, Christine
Summary: Make a fresh pot, sit down, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Parks and Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea's signature flavors. You'll discover tea's ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Sagan
Contents: Migration rights -- MacyCon '98-- Professional ascender -- Half-earth -- Starship and canoe -- Human use -- Crystal eyed -- Self-described -- Sillin keeper -- Anti-ark -- The myth of Invariance
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Seeland
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAGSummary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PGAllitt, Patrick.
Contents: Pt 1. Lecture 1: What is conservatism? -- Lecture 2: Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Lecture 3: Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Lecture 4: Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5: American Revolution -- Lecture 6: Federalists -- Lecture 7: Conservatives in the American south -- Lecture 8: Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Lecture 9: Opposing the Great...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CONAllitt, Patrick.
Summary: Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers lectures on the history of the British Empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 RISCall number: DVD 942 RIS PART 1
Call number: DVD 942 RIS PART 2
Call number: DVD 942 RIS PART 3
Summary: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood, and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell . . . and back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Archives, Sudan
Contents: Did you know? -- Confessions -- Black Vivaldi sonata -- Down on me -- Ballet of the unhatched twins -- Green eyes -- Iceland moss -- Coming up -- House of open tuning II -- Glorious -- Stuck -- Limitless -- Honey -- Pelicans in the summer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SUDSuso, Foday Musa.
Contents: Futula mussoli -- Morning light -- Mba ndin seedy -- Under the tree -- Kana boori -- Early walk -- Finger work -- Moving shadow -- Dunia sound -- Bunfa silence -- Fulada.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMP Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SUSArlott, Norman
Summary: "This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 ARLSuba
Contents: Tantos desejos (Cibelle, vocals ; João Parahyba, percussion) -- Você gosta (Taciana, vocals ; percussion, João Parahyba) -- Na neblina (Patricia H., landscapes) -- Segredo (Katia B., vocals) -- Antropòfagos (Mestre Ambrosio, percussion, bass, rabeca) -- Felicidade (Cibelle, vocals ; Luis do Monte, guitar ; João Parahyba, drums) -- Um dia comum (em SP) (Kuaker, guitar) -- Sereia (Cibelle,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees Records 2000