Doll, Jen

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship. Her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOL

Summary: Documents a Danish expedition by a team of scientists to hitherto unexplored fjords in northeast Greenland, which, due to the seasonal melting of glacial ice due to global warming, are now accessible for a few weeks a year.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXP
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EXP

Benn, Carl

Summary: Examines the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the major phases of the war, and describes the views of all parties--the Indians and the Canadians as well as the United States and Great Britain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BEN

Summary: Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL RATED G

Contents: Stay home / Self -- I'm a believer / Smash Mouth -- Like wow! / Leslie Carter -- It is you (I have loved) / Dana Glover -- Best years of our lives / Baha Men -- Bad reputation / Halfcocked -- My beloved monster / Eels -- You belong to me / Jason Wade -- All star / Smash Mouth -- Hallelujah / Rufus Wainwright -- I'm on my way / The Proclaimers -- I'm a believer (reprise) / Eddie Murphy -- True...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SHR

Summary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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

Hess, Earl J.

Contents: All we were told was to write a movie -- The reason we had such good musicals -- Out of thin air you make a moment dance -- Their feet do all the work -- Come on with the rain -- Everything but dancing -- Gotta dance! -- Best musical comedy I've seen -- You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams -- Legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HES

Summary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006

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

Ball, Jeff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 BAL

Ball, Jeff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9647 BAL

Contents: Here and now/ Luther Vandross. -- Friends and lovers/ Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson. -- Flame / Cheap Trick. -- I'm not in love Will to Power. -- First time / Surface. -- I only have eyes for you Art Garfunkel. -- Walkin' in the rain with the one I love / Love Unlimited. -- Never can say goodbye / Jackson 5. -- Heaven in your eyes / Loverboy. -- I won't hold you back / Toto. -- Two out of...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOD

Summary: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIR

Summary: An ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey in this harrowing survival thriller. Sawyer is an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Suddenly, the young woman with everything to live for finds herself facing her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUS

Summary: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUS

Liljestrand, Jens

Summary: Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIL

Coelho, Joseph

Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COE

Dahl, Michael

Summary: There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAH

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAH

Lekman, Jens

Contents: Every little hair knows your name -- Erica America -- Become someone else's -- Some dandruff on your shoulder -- She just don't want to be with you anymore -- I want a pair of cowboy boots -- The world moves on -- The end of the world is bigger than love -- I know what love isn't -- Every little hair knows your name.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Secretly Canadian 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LEK

Summary: In 12th century England, the infant king is usurped by the wicked King Roderick. Black Fox and his band attempt to restore the rightful king to the throne by having a member of their group infiltrate the court by posing as the jester.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COU

Lekman, Jens

Contents: To know your mission -- Evening prayer -- Hotwire the ferris wheel -- What's that perfume that you wear? -- Our first fight -- Wedding in Finistère -- How we met, the long version -- How can I tell him -- Postcard #17 -- Dandelion seed.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Secretly Canadian 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LEK