Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeCampbell, Christina Diane
Summary: History has consigned Sarah Henry to the same place her husband Patrick did – the basement. In And Sarah His Wife, Christina Campbell brings Ms. Henry upstairs. In doing so, she confounds what’s been assumed for two centuries—was it Sarah Henry, and not Patrick, who first exhorted, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Campbell’s prose uses wit, research, paper cuts, and her own experience with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Writers Cooperative Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMKing, Lily
Summary: By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINSummary: Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAContents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: The world's top protection agent is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world's most notorious hitmen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HITContents: Lightnin' strikes (Lou Christie) (3:01) -- Every day I have to cry (Steve Alaimo) (2:25) -- Everybody (Tommy Roe) (1:58) -- Tobacco Road (Nashville Teens) (2:30) -- Black is black (Los Bravos) (3:00) -- My boy Lollipop (Millie Small) (2:01) -- Hold me tight (Johnny Nash) (2:40) -- Pata pata (Miriam Makeba) (3:01) -- Noting but a heartache (The flirtations) (2:39) -- (Just like) Romeo & Juliet...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Eric Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGACampbell, Jack
Summary: As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMSantangelo, Christa
Summary: In her decades of practice and academic research, Dr. Christa Santangelo, a psychologist and assistant clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco, has seen many relationships devastated by the emotional hurricane that teenagers can inflict on a family. Yet Dr. Santangelo also understands how that conflict can be resolved and a new way forward mapped together between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 SANChriste, Ian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperEntertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 CHRBell, Chrysta.
Contents: This train -- Right down to you -- I die -- Swing with me -- Angel star -- Friday night fly -- Down by Babylon -- Real love -- Bird of flames -- Polish poem -- The truth is -- All the things.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: La Rose Noire
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BELKelly, Christa
Summary: "From movies and actors to video games and superheroes, these information-packed books cover the exciting world of entertainment. In the Entertainment Encyclopedias series, learn about influential movies that changed the film industry and impacted US culture, and get to know the actors who have brought these movies to life. Discover thrilling video games made in the 1950s and onward, and learn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 741.503 KELParrish, Christa.
Summary: Following her mother's death and her father's abandonment, infant Sarah Graham was left to be raised by her emotionally distant grandmother. As a child, she turned to music for comfort, but an unplanned pregnancy and the birth of a stillborn baby put a screeching halt to her potentially brilliant career. Now twenty-seven, Sarah lives hard in an attempt to escape her past. But when her estranged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARCampwell, Chloe
Summary: Are you interested in traveling across the United States in an RV? Do you want to explore the country and see all of its natural wonders? Have you felt like you haven’t connected with your inner self and need to rediscover the world?Would you like to be part of a thriving community that believes in self-sufficiency and personal responsibility? This book will teach you everything you need to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chloe Campwell 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 UNITED STATES CAMChristo, Alexandra
Summary: Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can’t remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity. Atia would never dream of allying with someone like him, but when she breaks a sacred...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHRJohnson, Christi
Summary: "Mystical Stitches combines hand embroidery with a spiritual element, introducing nearly 200 original designs for different symbols readers can use to create personal icons to wear or embellish items in the home"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.44 JOHParravani, Christa
Summary: "A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARRAVANI, CHRISTA PARParrish, Christa.
Summary: Ruled by fear and deep wounds, teenager Molly Fisk stays hidden away in the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother call home but everything changes when Claire Rodriguez, a woman from Molly's past, suddenly reappears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARParrish, Christa.
Summary: "Ada escaped her family's self-enclosed world to elope with a mysterious stranger. Five months later, she's a widow in a strange new world, but there is still life ahead for her"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARParrish, Christa.
Summary: From her earliest memory, Liesl McNamara's mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft. But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARSummary: Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002