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Summary: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.73 BEABeam, Sam
Contents: Welcome to feeling -- One way to pray -- The lamb you lost -- We two are a moon -- Midas tongue -- Know the wild that wants you -- Every songbird says -- Bright lights and goodbyes -- Kiss me quick -- Chalk it up to chi -- Valley clouds -- Soft place to land -- Sailor to siren.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEABeam, Alex.
Summary: "At thirty-nine years old, Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation -- the doctrine of polygamy -- created a rift among his people [Church of Latter-day Saints]; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEABeam, Alex
Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEABeam, Alex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 BEABeam, Alex.
Summary: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 BEABeam, Christy.
Summary: Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree -- and survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 231.7 BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEAM, ANNABEL BEAM Beam H Jones
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Morris Music 1912
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBieber, Justin
Contents: 2 much -- Deserve you -- As I am / feat. Khalid -- Off my face -- Holy / feat. Chance the Rapper -- Unstable / feat. The Kid Laroi -- MLK interlude -- Die for you / feat. Dominic Fike -- Hold on -- Somebody -- Ghost -- Peaches / feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon -- Love you different / feat. Beam -- Loved by you / feat. Burna Boy -- Anyone -- Lonely / with Benny Blanco.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Bieber 2021Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIEBeyonce
Contents: I'm that girl -- Cozy -- Allen superstar -- Cuff it -- Energy (featuring Beam) -- Break my sould -- Church girl -- Plastic off the sofa -- Virgo's groove -- Move (featuring Grace Jones, Tems) -- Heated -- Thique -- All up in your mind -- America has a problem -- Pure/Honey -- Summer renaissance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy discovers her ten-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Miracles 2016Skrillex
Contents: Don't leave me like this (with Bobby Raps) -- Way back (with Pinkpantheress & Trippie Redd) -- Selecta (with Beam) -- Ceremony (with Yung Lean & Bladee) -- Real spring (with Bladee) -- Summertime (with Kid Cudi) -- Bad for me (with Corbin & Chief Keef) -- 3am (with Prentiss & Anthony Green) -- Don't go (with Justin Bieber & Don Toliver) -- Don't get too close (with Bibi Bourelly & Sonny Moore)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SKRSkrillex
Summary: Skrillex releases his highly anticipated album after having a monumental run of performances and releases this year including sold out pop-ups in NYC at Good Room and Le Poisson Rouge along with a Madison Square Garden show. Grammy award winning musician enlists help from fellow pioneering artists such as Fred again., Four Tet, Jamie XX, Dylan Brady, and more, further etching his name as one of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Beak.
Summary: BEAK, formed by Geoff Barrow (Portishead), Matt Williams and Billy Fuller in 2009 recorded their debut album, created out of 12 days of improvised sessions and then edited into song form. Shortly after releasing it on Invada (UK) and Ipecac (US) the band went on a successful tour including festival dates across Europe and the U.S. Buzzing from the tour Beak then returned to the studio to start...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: INVADA 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BeaBeak>
Contents: Backwell -- Pill -- Ham Green -- I know -- Battery Point -- Iron Acton -- Ears have ears -- Blagdon Lake -- Barrow Gurney -- The cornubia -- Dundry Hill -- Flax Bourton.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BEASummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIBeans
Contents: Superstar destroyer (3:43) -- Deathsweater (4:01) -- Gluetraps (1:23) -- Electric eliminator (2:02) -- Electric bitch (3:47) -- Glass coffins (2:31) -- Blue movie (2:37) -- Mellow you out (2:08) -- Air is free (3:14) -- Forever living fresh (1:48) -- Anvil falling (0:53) -- Hardliner (3:36) -- Hunter (1:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anticon 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABeams, Clare
Summary: Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why. The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABeah, Ishmael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEAShukairy, Ream
Summary: Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUBeans
Contents: Window y tower -- Slow recovery -- Boston Rwa -- I breathe the air (from other planets) -- Lasa-ma in pace -- Vent du Nord -- Hollow stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Zum Media 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeams, Clare
Summary: "From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024