Summary: "In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants-- for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession-- and hunted by the Repo man!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR REPCharles, Daniel.
Summary: "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers--from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.5233 CHASummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CATIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.5 ISACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISASummary: At 17 years of age, microbiology prodigy Eva Vertes discovered a compound that stops fruit fly brain cells from dying - a breakthrough regarded as a step toward curing Alzheimer's disease. Now she aims to find better ways to treat, and even avoid, cancer. In this TEDTalk, 19-year-old Vertes discusses how she decided to make medical research her life's work and how her quest to understand the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Hornsby, Daniel
Summary: "Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup that promises nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises. Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORMatthews, Jeanne.
Summary: Anthropologist Dinah Pelerin travels from Hawaii to Norway, where she unexpectedly finds herself learning about the politics of genetic engineering and the Doomsday Seed Vault, involved in the marital troubles of and American presidential candidate and his Norwegian-born wife, and trying to figure out why a dead body fell out of a hotel sauna into her arms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATKeefe, Patrick Radden
Summary: Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Schapiro, Mark
Summary: "Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 SCHVardi, Nathan
Summary: "For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team-denied their share of the profits-went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention of two of the biggest cancer drugs in history became (for their backers) two of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.7 VARSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVASummary: Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: With nano-enabled drugs that destroy diseased cells and enable tissue repair, doctors may one day extend life expectancy far beyond our current capabilities—at least in countries wealthy enough to afford the technology. But the medicine that so radically redefines our standards of health and mortality will also profoundly challenge our social support systems and cultural values. In this Fred...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Riddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Struggling songwriter Dave Seville opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. When they become overnight music sensations, a greedy record producer tries to exploit the 'boys.' Now Dave must use a little human ingenuity and a lot of 'munk mischief to get his furry family back before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALVSummary: Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CATSummary: Season Two follows various hotel guests over a week, but with each passing day, a darker side of the picture-perfect travelers, hotel employees, and idyllic locale emerges. At its Sicily location, the White Lotus welcomes two couples trying to decide if they're friends or enemies, a three-generation Italian American family exploring its Sicilian roots, and a White Lotus VIP traveling with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WHICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHI1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WHI
Summary: Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A crew of young environmental activists executes a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is a part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THASummary: Jaime Reyes suddenly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he's bestowed with an incredible suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLU1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLUSummary: Four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to their own countries end up in a dismal South American town where an American oil company is seeking out courageous drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin over miles of treacherous terrain. The four men have nothing to lose; and, besides, they'll be paid 10,000 dollars apiece, and be granted legal citizenship, if they survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SORSummary: Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007