Summary: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAHagen, Uta
Summary: This book discusses the actor's goals, techniques, relationship to the physical and psychological senses, animation of the body and mind, listening and talking, and expectation. It includes useful exercises to help the actor in many areas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 HAGGraf, Uta.
Summary: At last the dressage world has a sensible means of reconciling classical idealism with show-ring aspirations. In these pages, Gräf shares her schooling exercies, as well as the techniques she uses to incorporate groundwork, long-lining, trail riding, creative play, bombproofing, and turnout in her training program. The result is dressage that makes reaching your riding goals look and seem easy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798 GRAFrith, Uta
Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 FRIIsaki, Uta
Summary: A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual. When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She's never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just 'hasn't met the one yet,' but Chika has doubts...It's only when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ISASilbey, Uma.
Contents: Quiet days -- Tibetan sunrise -- Jungle dream -- Lament -- Contemplation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naturescapes Publishing Inc. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE QUIAta, Te.
Summary: Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he's ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ATAPhillips, Utah.
Summary: Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings from the 'Golden Voice of the Great Southwest', this definitive set includes Utah's personal reflections about each song and also features renditions of his songs by Kate Wolf, Rosalie Sorrels, and many others. This is the most complete collection of Utah Phillips's songs ever released.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press/Trade Root Music Group, LLC 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PHILemper, Ute
Contents: The case continues (3:51) -- Tango ballad / with Neil Hannon (4:57) -- Passionate fight (4:14) -- Little water song (3:59) -- Purple Avenue (4:23) -- Streets of Berlin (4:01) -- Split / with Neil Hannon (3:41) -- Couldn't you keep that to yourself (2:48) -- Punishing kiss (4:33) -- You were meant for me (5:12) -- The part you throw away (4:39) -- Scope J (10:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL LEMMcCormack, Una
Summary: "An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCPhillips, Utah.
Contents: The telling takes me home (2:32) -- The goodnight-loving trail (3:36) -- John D. Lee (2:42) -- Dog Canyon (2:26) -- Johnny Thurman (1:57) -- Pig Hollow (1:51) -- Jesse's corrido (4:38) -- Enola Gay (2:42) -- Rock me to sleep (2:52) -- Larimer Street (2:48) -- Stupid's song (I have led a good life) (1:00) -- Scott's Creek Bluff (2:33) -- Weepy doesn't know (2:26) -- Yuba City (2:17) -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philo 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PHIKrishnaswami, Uma
Summary: "Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn't make...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRIMannion, Una
Summary: It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANMcCormack, Una
Summary: Revealing brand-new details of his experiences on Vulcan and the Enterprise, Mr. Spock, one of Starfleet's finest officers, uses his own distinctive voice to shed new light on his relationships with the most important figures in his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCFischer, Ute
Summary: Weaving is a creative and practical art that's great fun for all ages and abilities. This original book shows you how to weave a wonderful variety of objects -- special jewellery, a pretty bag, juggling balls, a snug scarf and even a scary spider in its web. Some of the items have handy everyday uses -- a phone pocket, a mug warmer and a coin purse -- and some are just great fun -- fairyland...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 746.14 FISUna, Luke.
Contents: Eva (Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti) -- Le train (Chène Noir) -- Every time I see him (Metropolis) -- Stay this way (The lunar dub) (Brand New Heavies ft. N'Dea Davenport) -- The PL (extended edit) (Typesun) -- Space Queen (King Errisson) -- Robot man (Yusef Lateef) -- Le cyclope (Daniel Humair, Francois Jeanneau, Henri Texier) -- O galho dar Roseira (Thje branches of the tree) (Airto Moreira)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC UNAUna, Luke.
Contents: Eva (Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti) -- Le train (Chène Noir) -- Every time I see him (Metropolis) -- Stay this way (The lunar dub) (Brand New Heavies ft. N'Dea Davenport) -- The PL (extended edit) (Typesun) -- Space Queen (King Errisson) -- Robot man (Yusef Lateef) -- Le cyclope (Daniel Humair, Francois Jeanneau, Henri Texier) -- O galho dar Roseira (Thje branches of the tree) (Airto Moreira)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC UNAKrishnaswami, Uma
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KRILeavy, Una.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart 1996
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Summary: "Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister's ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa's niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects, in rural Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain. Ruby learns how to hunt, how the plants and trees...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANNaidoo, Uma
Summary: Based on cutting-edge research, a nutritional psychiatrist shows how to use food and nutrition to calm the mind, including the best diets for managing anxiety and depression, boosting immunity and enhancing overall mental well-being.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: "In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta
Summary: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019