Birkhold, Matthew H.
Summary: "Harvesting icebergs for drinking water is not a new idea. But for the first time in human history, doing so on a massive global scale is both increasingly feasible and necessary for our survival. Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans' relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H
Hackworth, David H.
Summary: A critique of American military leadership, arguing that the Pentagon's devotion to developing high-tech weapons systems has left the troops ill-prepared to fight the types of wars going on in places like Bosnia and Saudi Arabia, as evidenced by the fact that soldiers in the Gulf War were wearing Vietnam issue boots and carrying dangerously outmoded equipment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HACKWORTH, DAVID H HACMather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMattiel
Summary: The second album from the Atlanta-based singer/songwriter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MATMather, Matthew
Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Ditson Company 1940
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMattel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver knows it's up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad, who wrongly believes the marshal is responsible for his father's death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN PROSummary: An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRSummary: Follows designer-activist Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IFSummary: A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CITSummary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Meet 2007Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEE RATED GHarvey, Matthea
Summary: Lamb and Mary were alike. Unbalanced. Flat-footed. High-strung. This is their story like you've never heard it--the tale of a loopy shepherdess and a depressive farm animal. In this version of the children's nursery rhyme, Lamb and Mary fall in love. They swoon, they are smitten. Then Mary has second thoughts. Lamb is a lamb, after all, not a man. Lamb, heartbroken, turns to drinking. Lamb goes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 HARHarvey, Matthea
Summary: Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For Tom, it was love at first sight when Summer Finn walked into the greeting card company where he worked. Summer is the new administrative assistant. Soon, Tom knows that Summer is the woman with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life. Although Summer does not believe in relationships or boyfriends, Tom and Summer become more than just friends. Through the trials and tribulations of Tom...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FSummary: Evil banker Rachel Bitterman forecloses on the Muppets' famous variety theater. But Bitterman's machinations take a back seat when apprentice guardian angel Daniel shows Kermit what conditions would have been had Kermit never existed. A Kermit-less world would have found Miss Piggy running a fraudulent psychic hotline, Fozzie Bear as a homeless derelict, and Sam the Eagle as a caged "rave"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ITSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MOVIE ITSummary: Ted heads to Africa in search of exhibits that will bolster the popularity of his friend's natural history museum, where he is befriended by George, a very curious monkey that leads Ted on a never-ending series of adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEACulligan, Matthew J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File Inc. 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Druck, Ken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Onomatopoeia 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.782 DRUSummary: Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleased against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-georgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003