Summary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful, mortal wife, Annie. With the friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. But when Annie in her despair takes her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie What 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHAVarious Artists
Contents: Little Richard -- Long Tall Sally / Garnet Mimms -- As long as I have you / Robert Johnson -- Travelling riverside blues / Bukka White -- Shake 'em on down / Santo & Johnny -- Summertime / Bert Jansch -- Blackwater side / John Renbourn -- Nobody's fault but mine / Spirit -- Fresh garbage / Muddy Waters -- You need love / Howlin' Wolf -- Killing floor / Blind Willie Johnson -- In my time of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJBarn Owl
Contents: Sundown -- Visions in dust -- Night's shroud -- Ancestral star -- Cavern hymn -- Flatlands -- Twilight -- Awakening -- Incantation -- LIght from the Mesa
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BARBaines, Francesca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.133 BAIBaines, Becky
Summary: Introduces young readers to each part of our solar system, including the sun, every planet, moons, the asteroid belt, and the Kuiper belt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 523.2 BaineSummary: After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCI Entertainment 1965
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HONSummary: When retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery, he and his wife Marge go on an exciting multi-million dollar winning spree to revive their small Michigan town. But when a selfish college student cheats the system, Jerry must find a way to make the game fair for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LERCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JerrySummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THUContents: Stay with me (Lorraine Ellison) (3:33) -- As long as I have you (Garnet Mimms) (2:43) -- Good lovin' (Olympics) (2:32) -- Time is on my side (Kai Winding) (3:11) -- A wonderful dream (Majors) (2:02) -- My girl awaits me (Castelles) (3:04) -- Cry baby (Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters) (3:25) -- I'm comin' home (Fabulous Four) (2:26) -- Disappointed (Claudine Clark) (3:05) -- You got just what you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RAGBare, Bobby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BARSummary: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHIBaines, Anthony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.19 BAIBaines, Becky
Summary: An introduction to animal communication uses simple text and colorful photographs to look at how animals "talk" without using words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 591.59 BaineBaines, Rebecca.
Summary: The Earth is just one of many planets in our solar system. Why is this the perfect place for us to live? Which are the "gas planets?" And why have we changed what we think of Pluto? Then Zigzag into other questions: what does Earth look like from space? Will I ever live on Mars? What experiment can I do to swing a planet into orbit?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.2 BAIBane, Jenn
Summary: "With eight billion people in the world, why is it so hard to meet and make new friends? Making friends as an adult is not easy. Keeping friends isn't easy, either. There are legitimate obstacles in our way: we're busy, we're anxious, and too often, we'refar away. Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano, hosts of the feel-good podcast Friendshipping, know this better than anyone, and they've distilled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177 BANBaier, Bret
Summary: January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT BAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EISENHOWERBaines, Rebecca
Summary: Offers a series of diverse types of picture puzzles intended to strengthen visual and cognitive skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 BAIBaines, Rebecca.
Summary: Welcome to the snug world of bear dens. Kids will explore these intriguing places, and find our how, when, and why they are used. Then they'll Zigzag through an adventure of discovery: if a den is a bed for a bear, what's a bed for a tiger? Who else hibernates?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008