Summary: Exposes the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, with a number of species facing imminent extinction. This poignant documentary explores the wonder of these tiny globe-trekking marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMPContents: Largo / Schulz (3:35) -- Adagio / Holt Sombach (Quatuor Rosamonde) (5:36) -- Rondeau / Reichardt (Quatuor Rosamonde ; Marc Marder, double bass) (6:35) -- Sonata no. 3. Récit. Andantino amoroso / Naumann (3:55) -- Adagio K.V. 356 (K.V.617a) (3:07) ; Adagio und Rondo K.V.617 (Philippe Bernold, flute ; Maurice Bourgue, oboe ; Jean Sulem, viola ; Xavier Gagnepain, cello) (12:09) / Mozart --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GLAMendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Contents: Sonata in C minor, op. 65 no. 2 (9:45) -- Prelude and fugue in G major, op. 37 no. 2 (7:45) -- Sonata in A major, op. 65 no. 3 (16:50) -- Prelude and fugue in C minor, op. 37 no. 1 (6:15) -- Sonata in D minor, op. 65 no. 6 (14:28) -- Prelude and fugue in D minor, op. 37 no. 3 (8:44)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Argo 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MENSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: In 1970s England, Dalgliesh and his junior, DS Kate Miskin, investigate the murders of a forensic scientist, a controversial lawyer, and a young doctor at odds with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALP Webster L Alter
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1936
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMeier, John P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.9 MEIBach, P. D. Q.
Contents: Opening & introduction (4:50) -- Short-tempered clavier : preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys except for the really hard ones : S. easy as 3.14159265 (31:47) -- Introduction (3:16) -- Little pickle book (9:59) -- Introduction (1:16) -- Sonata da circo = Circus sonata : S. 3 ring (8:43) -- Calliope frustration (:42) -- Introduction (1:07) -- Three chorale-based piecelets : S. III...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACContents: Big Bend gal (Shelor Family) -- Pretty Polly (B.F. Shelton) -- What will I do, for my money's all gone (Uncle Eck Dunford and Hattie Stoneman) -- At the river (Tennessee Mountaineers) -- Miss Liza, poor gal (Tenneva Ramblers) -- The soldier's sweetheart (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Single girl, married girl (The Carter Family) -- Called to the foreign field (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Just a message from...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY RCAL Alter,P Webster O Straus
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1937
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAtkins, P. W. (Peter William)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BELSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking. Social media are transforming war, crime, and diplomacy. Terrorists can broadcast attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real-world...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.23 SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult BrookingSummary: Shortly after noon on September 11, 2001, retired FDNY firefighter Mike Lennon arrived at the devastation of the World Trade Centers. After two weeks of digging, first for survivors and then for remains, he grabbed his camera and began interviewing every firehouse that had lost men. An interview done prior to 9/11 with John Satore, a firefigher who died at the WTC, leads to a flood of memories...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROSummary: Ali Davis is left on the outside by her fellow sports agents because she is a woman in a male-dominated profession, but she acquires an unexpected edge when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhDoherty, P. C. (Peter C.)
Summary: Argues that birds around the world detect dangers in the environment long before humans do, and claims that more attention should be paid to the scientific observation of birds and their behaviors to help identify threats to the health of the planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 DOHFirstbrook, P. L. (Peter L.)
Summary: Mallory and Irvine died during their attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Many believed they had achieved it but had then perished during the descent. The debate had raged over 75 years. In May 1999, an expedition sponsored by the BBC set out to climb the North Face of the mountain as they pieced together the dramatic events of the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 915.496 FIRGould, Morton
Contents: All through the night / Traditional (3:37) -- Estrellita / Ponce (3:57) -- "Moonlight" sonata : first movement / Beethoven (6:17) -- Serenade / Drigo (3:13) -- Windjammer (3:20) ; Night watch (3:17) / Gould -- Stars in my eyes / Kreisler (3:37) -- Barcarolle (June) (no. 6, The seasons, op. 37b) / Tchaikovsky (5:10) -- Onipe (from African suite) / Sowande (2:27) -- Nocturne (from A midsummer...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING GOUDeutermann, P. T. (Peter T.)
Summary: "Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009