Summary: Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patch 1999

Mills, Lauren A.

Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MIL

Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEV

Summary: The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WE

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2007

Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LAS

Steel, Danielle

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Summary: NCIS Special Agent Jethro Gibbs leads his team to investigate all crimes dealing with the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps. The team continues to deal with a death of one of it's own while being broken up by the new director. They find a mole within their ranks, solve a murder at a Marine base, and a home invasion right before Christmas. McGee becomes a hostage at a womens' prison, while Abby is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NCI

Summary: Coal provides half of America's electricity. Examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUR

Summary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAA

Hahn, Mary Downing

Summary: "They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Etch/Clarion imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HAH

Heat Moon, William Least

Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEA

Summary: Take an unforgettable journey alongside the two-fisted, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants ladies' man, Federal Agent James T. West, and his sidekick, the multi-talented master of disguise, Agent Artemus Gordon. Join them as they ride coast to coast in a high-tech railroad car, armed to the teeth with an array of high-tech weaponry and inventive gadgets, as they protect the security of President...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIL

Summary: Join U.S. Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they do their heroic best to keep America safe from the evil geniuses, criminal masterminds and devious despots who plan to imperil, rob or conquer the President, the nation and the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIL

Summary: One of the most popular series of the 1960's, 'The wild wild West' involves the exploits of two Secret Service agents who protect President Ulysses S. Grant and investigate crime in the Old West.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIL

Summary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUA

Goldhill, David.

Summary: "A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable,successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GOL

Summary: Simon, Kelly, Alisha and Curtis acquired new powers following their encounter with Seth; Nathan goes to Las Vegas; and Seth finds the power of resurrection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIS