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Summary: "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Beam, Cris.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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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
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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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEAContents: Disc 1. Bellbottoms (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) (5:17) -- Harlem shuffle (Bob & Earl) (2:50) -- Egyptian reggae (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers) (2:37) -- Smokey Joe's la la (Googie René) (2:55) -- Let's go away for awhile (The Beach Boys) (2:17) -- B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas) (2:54) -- Kashmere (Kashmere Stage Band) (4:56) -- Unsquare dance (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) (2:02) -- Neat neat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 30th Century Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BABContents: Bar tender / Laurel Aitken -- Independence song / Prince Buster & the Blue Beats -- Four corners of the world / Roland Alphonso -- Housewife's choice / Derrick & Patsy -- Oh Carolina / The Folkes Brothers -- Jamaican rock / Byron Lee and the Dragonaires -- Murder / Leon and Owen & Drumbago All Stars -- Jamaica blues / Azie Lawrence -- Kinston 13 / Bell's Group -- Babylon gone / Winston & Roy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MOJContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEABeam, Alex.
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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.
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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...
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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 BEASummary: Based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDM Beam H Jones
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Morris Music 1912
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: In this terrifying, action-fueled film based on the Marvel comic series, five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five ₁patients₂ come to understand that they are in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeContents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALLContents: Disc 1 : the 'A' sides Boogie rock / Laurel Aitken & The Boogie Cats -- Dumplin's / Byron Lee & The Dragonaires -- Manny oh / Higgs & Wilson with Ken Richards & His Comets -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Junior with Duke Reid & His Group -- My hearts desire / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & His Group -- Worried over you / Keith & Enid with Trenton Spence & His Group -- Fat man / Derrik Morgan...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunrise Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STOSummary: In the future it is thought that wolves have become extinct, but in reality they have taken human form; this story follows a pack of wolves as they attempt to find a mysterious paradise called "Rakuen" meant only for creatures of their kind. Contains entire series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bandai Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WOLBeths
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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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: The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: All dogs go to heaven: Set in 1939 New Orleans, the story centers on Charles B. Barkin, a roguish German shepherd with the charm of a con man and the heart of a marshmallow. Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, a cigar-chomping pit bull known as Carface, Charlie finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie. Her astounding ability to talk to animals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALLStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: "Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life of any party, but the two are inseparable. For their last summer before college, Alec and Walker leave the city to live with their rural cousins, where they find that the swamp holds far darker depths than they could have imagined. While Walker carves their names into the new social scene, Alec...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Faithfull, Marianne.
Contents: Sex with strangers / feat. Beck -- Pleasure song -- Like being born / feat. Beck -- I'm on fire -- Wherever I go / feat. Billy Corgan -- Song for Nico / feat. Dave Stewart -- Sliding through life on charm / feat. Jarvis Cocker -- Love & money -- Nobody's fault / feat Beck -- Kissin time / feat. Blur -- I'm into something good / feat. Billy Corgan.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FAISummary: Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006