Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIORed Elvises
Contents: Grooving to the Moscow Beat -- Boogie on the beach -- Good golly Miss Molly -- Please don't tell me (what I did last night) -- Tango -- Shooba-Doobah (Elvis' vacation) -- My love is killing me -- Leech -- Elvis and bears -- Scorchi chornie -- Harriet -- Ballad of Elvis and Priscilla -- Sad cowboy song -- Romantic junk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shooba-Doobah Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RedGreenfield, Eloise
Summary: Through historical information, poems, illustrations, and photographs, the author shows the ways in which African American midwives have helped families over the course of hundreds of years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alazar Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 618.2 GREFarinas, Ulises
Summary: Look and find Chewbacca and other Star Wars characters in this picture puzzle book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix International Publications 2016
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Summary: "A moving tale about friendship, new beginnings, and cats"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COOCooper, Elisha.
Summary: The reader is taken on a journey through a neighborhood and shown the sights, sounds, and smells as evening approaches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COOElison, Meg
Summary: Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2016
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Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLECooper, Elisha.
Summary: "The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOPER, ELISHA COOElish, Dan.
Summary: Provides a detailed account of this decisive battle of the Civil War including events leading up to it, the course of the battle itself, and its consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2005
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Summary: This is the true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades--and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8750 SCHElser, Smoke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Press Pub. Co. 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 ELSHead, Eloise
Summary: Presents one hundred recipes for simple yet decadent desserts, including cookies and cream fudge, chocolate hazelnut mug cake, peanut butter blondies, tangy lemon bars, and stuffed cookie cups.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 HEASummary: In Encountering sea monsters, marine photographer Bob Cranston investigates the realm of the Humboldt squid. Oceans of glass takes the viewer on a tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATRed Elvises
Contents: Spacecowboy -- Welcome to the freak show -- A kegga beer and potato chips -- Sex in Paradise -- Million miles -- Cha-cha-cha -- Running away -- Groovie -- Show is over.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shooba-Doobah 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RedRed Elvises.
Contents: Odessa -- Sunshine -- Natasha loves reggae -- Guitarist -- Pilorma -- Superment -- Juliet -- I want you -- On wings of love -- Besbashenni muson (AC/DC) -- Moscow -- Let them talk -- Paravos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shooba-Dooba 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RedFitzpatrick, Elyse
Summary: Although we may go to bed at night believing the gospel, we wake up every morning needing to hear it again. Yet most of us don't have time to dive into a lengthy commentary on the book of Romans-the book Paul wrote in order to showcase the glorious riches of the gospel. Thankfully, seasoned counselor and author Elyse Fitzpatrick makes the message of Romans readily accessible in 31...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2013
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Epel, Elissa
Summary: "From world-renowned psychologist and New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Elissa Epel, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to turn your stress into your strength in just seven days Our lives have become increasingly stressful. From the moment our eyes open in the morning to when they drift closed at night, we are flooded with constant stress triggers: to-do lists, deadlines, thorny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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Summary: A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se ha extendido por todo el mundo, ha dejado a muchos adultos y niños buscando respuestas sobre cómo pueden mantenerse a salvo. Al centrarse en los hechos presentados de una manera identificable en lugar del miedo, esta guía ilustrada de salud y seguridad brinda a los niños las herramientas que necesitan para comprender lo que está sucediendo en el mundo y...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 579.2 MACPaananen, Eloise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1972
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Summary: The Civil war diaries and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. All For the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7445 RHOFontenaille, Élise
Summary: A six-year-old boy loves nothing more than spending time with Luis, his immigrant grandfather, who teaches the boy about birds, plants, and the natural world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FONKlise, James
Summary: While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must decide who he wants to be before disappearing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KLIKlise, Kate.
Summary: After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, continues as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2010