Andrews-Dyer, Helena

Summary: To millions nationwide, American Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a hero of the resistance and an icon, serving eye rolls, withering looks, and sharp retorts to any who dare waste her time on nonsense. Throughout her forty years in public service and eighty years on earth, the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd district has been a role model, a crusader for justice, a game-changer, a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATERS, MAXINE AND

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Navajo Indians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWY

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: Offers an overview of the past and present lives of the Ojibwa Indians, covering their customs, beliefs, and government.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWY

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: An introduction to the locale, history, way of life, and culture of the Aztecs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.018 DWY

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: Discusses Cheyenne culture and history, covering such topics as their origins, traditions, land issues, and contemporary life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWY

Summary: Elephants can remember: "While Poirot investigates a famed psychiatrist's murder, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver looks into a couple's mysterious death." -- The Big Four: "With the world on the brink of war, Poirot finds himself drawn into a case marked by political intrigue and international connections. -- Dead man's folly: "Fiction turns to fact when a young woman is killed at a "murder hunt"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POI

Dwyer, Helen.

Summary: A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Dakota Indians, also known as the Sioux.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWY

Summary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Rodham" and "You Think It, I'll Say It," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Summary: When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher's quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official's wife. When Gallagher learns that the woman's secret lover was a seductive federal agent, he finds himself under fire. But from whom, his own cops, a vengeful drug lord, the CIA, or someone even more ruthless?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEN

Summary: Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REC

Summary: Unraveling the hidden agendas of the world's richest men and most powerful art institutions, the documentary reveals how vested interests became all-important, and the truth secondary.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: Teaches authentic Egyptian bellydance moves, including dancing with a veil, then combines them into a fully choreographed dance routine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Naturaljourneys 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Exe D

Andrews, Lena S.

Summary: In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 AND

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Ormond, Richard

Summary: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The National Portrait Gallery 2015

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 SARGENT ORM

Contents: Hollerin' the hills / Adler & Hearne -- Les Polkas / Slide -- Power / Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys -- Gravel walk / Ruby John -- Wish you enough / Summerson -- Fireflies / Saldaje -- Jamb jice / Medicinal Groove -- Black sun / Lena Maude -- Like someone walking away / THUNDERCLAP! -- Rainy day / Accidentals -- Where do I go from here / Andrew Sturtz Trio -- It's gunna be me / Bergamot -- Rock...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse City Film Festival

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL TRA

Summary: A simple worker causes a strike on the Gdansk shipyard which leads to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately the downfall of the Soviet system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STR

Fitoussi, Michèle

Summary: Helena Rubinstein not only enjoyed unbelievable success, but was also instrumental in empowering and liberating women. This is her story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUBINSTEIN, HELENA FIT

Summary: Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABO

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Meet Dora's cousin, Diego! He helps at the Animal Rescue Center and can even talk to animals! Preschoolers will learn: Spanish language skills - count missing ladder rungs and stars; auditory/listening skills - make animal noises to talk to condors, jaguars, penguins, seals, a whale and more; kinesthetic skills: move like the animals and catch stars; plus other language and problem solving skills.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOR

Summary: Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a seventeen-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A huge turn of events shakes up their lives, and the young girl must come to decisions that even a grown woman would find challenging to make.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEL

Resnick, Lorne

Summary: Being in Cuba feels like falling in love with the person you know you were meant to be with. It's exhilarating and bewitching. During more than fifty trips to the island over the past twenty years, award-winning photographer Lorne Resnick has sought to capture the experience of being in Cuba; the result is a collection of moments filled with passion, desire and laughter. Those moments, exactly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2015

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910 CUB

Bent Arcana (Musical group)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEN

Summary: "When a family of Trumpeter Swans make their home on the Peterson farm pond, it's love at first sight for 10-year-old daughter Frankie. But when Ginny Newsom, a no-nonsense wildlife biologist rushes in to 'save' the majestic birds, it's dislike at first sight for Frankie's dad Jack. As everyone watches nature's plan unfold for the swans, Frankie and her brothers also observe changes in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Away