Summary: Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking, and a cast of disabled artists, scholars, and activists, it's a scorching critique of some of Hollywood's most beloved characters. This revelatory documentary investigates the power of movie imagery to shape the beliefs and behaviors of the general public toward disabled people, and of disabled people toward themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CODSlime
Contents: Thurible -- Striding edge -- Hot dog / ft. George Maple -- My company -- In one year -- Symptoms -- The way of asprilla -- At sea again / ft. Selah Sue -- Patricia's stories / ft. Jeremiah Jae -- Down and tell.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weird World Record Co. 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SLIAnderson, Sulome
Summary: The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, SULOME ANDChernoff, Marc
Summary: "New York Times bestselling authors Marc and Angel Chernoff deliver inspiring, actionable advice for keeping relationships strong--for couples, parents, friends, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 CHEChernoff, Marc
Summary: "New York Times-bestselling authors Marc and Angel Chernoff deliver instant inspiration and powerful advice for becoming our best selves. Millions of readers turn to Marc and Angel Chernoff for fresh, intimate insights for a fulfilled life. In this pithy and empowering guide, they collect the very best advice they've discovered, on topics that include overcoming setbacks, letting go of what's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 CHELacome, Susie.
Summary: 100 fun ideas to make for both indoors & out, Great Stuff is the ultimate children's activity book. From a water xylophone to a Hallowe'en skeleton, a miniature theater to jungle masks, this book will inspire children to stretch their imaginations and create the most amazing things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MQP 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 LACPalomo, Alan.
Contents: The wailing mall -- Meutrière -- La Madrileña -- Nudista mundial '89 -- The return of Mickey Milan -- Stay-at-home DJ -- Club people -- Alibi for Petra -- Nobody's woman -- Is there nightlife after death? -- Big night of heartache -- The island years -- Trouble in mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Transgressive Records 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK PALFurlong, Saloma Miller.
Summary: Overview: There are two ways to leave the Amish - one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong's father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1044 FURLONG, SALOMA MILLER FURGoldman, Shalom.
Summary: Introduces the great myths of the ancient Near East, the region bound by Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west, Iran in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Arabian peninsula in the south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.3 GOL PT. 1 OF 2Ichikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Ignored while the other trees talk about how they will be dressed for Christmas, a small fir tree finds her dreams fulfilled on Christmas morning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE ICHMagpie Salute
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAGSalomon, David
Summary: This book's "up close and personal" photographs of pandas and its array of panda facts will captivate young nonfiction lovers. Readers will learn how one mother and her cub are being protected and raised in a Chinese panda reserve, which seeks to help this vulnerable species survive. In fact, ChiDa, the panda cub, is being prepared to be released into the wild--once she is old enough and has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED SALSalowe, Allen E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quality Medical Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9946 SALYalom, Irvin D.
Summary: "A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confrontsthe loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YALAlikhan, Salima
Summary: When a massive fire breaks out in 1871 Chicago, twelve-year-old orphan Ollie and his young charge Leo scramble to escape the burning city, but before they find shelter they must search for Ollie's lost sister Eliza among the wreckage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIGoldman, Shalom.
Summary: Introduces the great myths of the ancient Near East, the region bound by Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west, Iran in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Arabian peninsula in the south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.3 GOL PT 2 OF 2Saloman, Nick
Contents: disc 1. Enjoy -- We're your friends, man -- Pheromones -- Lead on -- In the leaves -- Little orchestras -- Growing -- A hard way to learn -- Young man's game -- Venom drain --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEVAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALISalama, Jordan
Summary: "An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez's territory--rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox--as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.61 SALUgaki, Matome
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 UGAAuslander, Shalom
Summary: Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: "Eat me." This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal-Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group, but for Seventh, it raises some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuslander, Shalom.
Summary: Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Feeling neglected when Danny goes to sleep with his new stuffed animals rather than with him, Pangoo runs away to the zoo to live with the real-life penguins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION IchikawaIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003