Summary: Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAMDessa
Contents: Ride -- 5 out of 6 -- Fire drills -- Velodrome -- Good grief -- Boy crazy -- Jumprope -- Shrimp -- Half of you -- Say when -- I Hope I'm wrong.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Doomtree Records, LLC 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP DESDiva
Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVKurma dasa
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 KURDosa, David.
Summary: An otherwise ordinary cat, Oscar has the uncanny ability to sense when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old cat has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five nursing home residents thus far. His mere presence at the bedside is viewed by physicians and nursing-home staff as an almost absolute indicator of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Wallander, Disa
Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALDosa, David.
Summary: When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute little cat with attitude. He loved to stretch out in a puddle of sunlight and chase his tail until he was dizzy. Occasionally he consented to a scratch behind the ears, but only when it suited him. In other words, he was a typical cat. Or so it seemed. It wasn't long before Oscar had created...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.17 DOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 DOSDosa, David.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.17 DOSDesai, Kiran
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESFagan, Deva
Summary: After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGMesa, Sara
Summary: "Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's 'program' is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the 'special', scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESMichelli, Dena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.7 MICStanisic, Sasa
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STADash, Meredith
Summary: Introduces the holiday of Labor Day and how and why it is celebrated in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.264 DASDesai, Kiran
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESIssa, Joanna
Summary: "Using simple text and step-by-step instructions alongside clear, labeled photographs, this book shows how to make a cool truck out of cardboard boxes and other household materials"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 ISSKleiman, Dena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1988
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Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBSugiura, Misa
Summary: When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit, Niko, and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend, Tamamo-no-mae, and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUGAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZArcher, Dosh
Summary: On the eve of the Battle of the Bands, Vinnie "The Crash" McLaren's best drumsticks are stolen, and it is up to Detective Paw and Patrol Officer Prickles to determine which of Vinnie's neighbors is the thief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ARCDust Brothers
Contents: Who Is Tyler Durden? (5:03) -- Homework (4:36) -- What Is Fight Club? (Album Version0 (4:45) -- Single Serving Jack (4:14) -- Corporate World (2:43) -- Psycho Boy Jack (2:58) -- Hessel, Raymond K. (2:49) -- Medulla Oblongata (6:00) -- Jack's Smirking Revenge (3:59) -- Stealing Fat (2:22) -- Chemical Burn (3:35) -- Marla (4:22) -- Commissioner Castration (3:07) -- Space Monkeys (3:19) -- Finding...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryko/WEA 1999
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Fishbein, Dena.
Summary: A mother and child share happy times reading books, taking naps, and playing together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Fishbein 2011Hansen, Essa
Summary: "Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans. He...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020