Summary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEDiva
Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVJacobs, Liska
Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJones, Alisa.
Contents: Deep forest reel -- Second harvest -- Music box waltz -- The pipes are calling -- Jesu joy of man's desiring -- Green Willis -- O'Carolyn's draught -- St. Anne's reel -- Fair and tender ladies -- Year of jubilo -- Going home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY JonesLiss, David
Summary: After many ups and downs, Zeke and his friends work together in a final effort to stop the evil Phands from taking over the galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LISKleven, Elisa.
Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLELipa, Dua
Contents: Future nostalgia -- Don't start now -- Cool -- Physical -- Levitating -- Pretty please -- Hallucinate -- Love again -- Break my heart -- Good in bed -- Boys will be boys -- Fever -- We're good -- Prisoner / (with Miley Cyrus) -- If it ain't me -- That kind of woman -- Not my problem / (featuring JID) -- Levitating (remix) / (featuring DaBaby) -- Un dia / featuring J. Balvin, Bad Bunny & Tainy).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Contents: Suita Maryjna. Bogurodzica ; Już od rana rozśpiewana ; Serdeczna Matko ; Chwalcie ła̧ki umajone ; Pod twoja obronę ; Cześć Maryi ; Totus tuus ; Pieśń do Matki Bożej Fatimskiej ; Apel Maryjny -- Gaude Maria virgo -- Three hymns to texts by Pope John Paul II. Uwielbienie Eucharystii ; Królowo Polski ; Modlitwa za Polskę -- Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Hail Mary/Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Królowej anielskiej...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lira Ensemble 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS LIRMaslo, Lina
Summary: When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACLiss, David
Summary: In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader desperate to recover his lost fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city, and confronts a ruthless adversary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISMaita, Luisa
Contents: Na asa -- Around you -- Olé -- Porão -- Fio da memória -- Musica popular -- Ela -- Volta -- Sutil -- Folia -- Jump.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MAIFisher, Lija
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISLiska, Zdenek.
Contents: Mala morska vila -- Witches firewall -- Pearls from the deep -- King of the ocean -- The pendant / The little mermaid. (theme) --The song of the siren -- The sixth sister -- Statue pf sault 1 -- Aquatic babicka -- In safe hands
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MALSugiura, Misa
Summary: When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit, Niko, and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend, Tamamo-no-mae, and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUGBirnbaum, Nechama
Summary: Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amsterdam Publishers 2021
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Summary: As thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren continues to search for the immortal cryptid, he finds that not only is the resistance getting more dangerous, so are the cryptids.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISSugiura, Misa
Summary: "When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUGKolstad, Lise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 KOLLisk, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Lisk had no idea what was coming. At forty-three, she had a lot going on. A full-time job. Two young kids. A home to manage. And suddenly--a husband with inoperable brain cancer. How could this be her life? In between surgeries, ER visits, thousands of pills, and ultimately, hospice at home, Jenny kept her corner of the world updated through a CaringBridge online journal, and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluhen Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISK, JENNY LISTerKeurst, Lysa
Summary: "Lysa TerKeurst helps readers address how to stop suffering from what others have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how to deal with difficult relationships"-- You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you. But you may be stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind. TerKeurst has wrestled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 TERTrochatos, Litsa
Summary: "This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations"--www.amazon.ca.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2014
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Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALBirnbaum, Daniel
Summary: "In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022