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Summary: "When it comes to caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, the right caregiving can make all the difference. Here, Patricia Boswell shares structured routines, life hacks, and best practices that are evidence-based and focused on maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the entire family. As a nurse and dementia expert, Boswell knows that the best caregivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CATMarx, Patricia (Patricia A.)
Summary: "This is the story of Nellie Bee Nightly, who is not tired at all. And swears she never will be! The popcorn is too pooped to pop, and the nightstand is too tired to stand up straight and must lie down--but Nellie? Nope, she's wide awake, and not ready for bedtime AT ALL. Instead, she gives her goldfish a mustache and hangs her bed from the ceiling so that she can install a swimming pool in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMarx, Patricia (Patricia A.)
Summary: "The perfect Valentine's Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Everyone's heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard to get. Sexual favors in exchange for cleaning up the cat vomit is a good and fair trade. Okay, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARMarx, Patricia (Patricia A.).
Summary: " "I believe Freud got it wrong when he said that the two basic drives that motivate our thoughts and behavior are 1) sex and 2) death, which he sometimes called aggression, go figure. So what runs the show, then? Fear of embarrassment prevails until theage of thirty, followed by the desire to lose weight, and finally, the need to sit down." In LETS BE LESS STUPID, longtime New Yorker staffer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MARRowell, Galen A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 778.936 ROWLong, Patricia (Patricia A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7221 LONMarx, Patricia (Patricia A.)
Summary: Patricia Marx's neurotic heroine falls for philosopher Eugene Obello during her graduate school days in Cambridge, England; later, the heroine becomes a TV writer on a hit comedy show in New York, and coincidentally, Eugene moves to New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARMarx, Patricia (Patricia A.)
Summary: A gift collection of witty one-liners by the New Yorker writer and first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon celebrates the universal advice of her mother and is accompanied by full-color illustrations by a New Yorker staff cartoonist. Illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Humor MarxPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC POWPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BAKER POWPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 Baker 2014Powell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAKPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: "A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 ROWHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: Amateur sleuth Haley Randolph, while starting a new job as a corporate events planner, must prove her innocence when the chief of security, who was performing a background check on her, is found bludgeoned to death in her office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: Winning a vacation to a resort that caters to the whims of the rich and famous, Haley Randolph, while searching for the hottest beach bag, finds her dream holiday taking a murderous turn when she stumbles upon the body of a maid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: "Abbey Chandler has barely arrived in Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. Through it all, she keeps looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PlContents: Disc 1. Side A. Her alibi (90 min.) -- Side B. Forget Paris (87 min.) -- Disc 2. Side A. Goodbye girl (103 min.) -- Best friends (109 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 4Buckley, William F. (William Frank)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993