Summary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONJacquees
Contents: King / (feat. T.I.) -- Round II -- EEeee / (feat. TK Kravitz) -- Come get it / (feat. FYB) -- Good lovin -- Out of the ordinary -- Risk it all / (feat. Tory Lanez) -- Warning -- All you need / (feat. Quavo & Bluff City) -- Cross the line -- Fact or fiction -- New new -- Verify / (feat. Gunna & Young Thug) -- Never say goodbye -- What they gone do with me -- Hot for me / (feat. Lil Keed & Lil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JACJacquees
Contents: Sincerely for you (intro) -- Say yea -- Reason why -- When you bad like that / feat. Future -- Woman's worth -- Start over -- Tell me it's over / feat. Summer Walker & 6lack -- I remember -- Ya body / feat. Dreezy -- Be with you / feat. Tory Lanez -- Way too many shots -- Still that -- Tipsy -- Sex Hennessy & R&B/Talking about you -- Stay there -- The mud / feat. 21 Savage -- One more Timelbum...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD R&B JACSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGJacquet, Luc.
Summary: Chronicles how emperor penguins endure the coldest place on Earth to mate and hatch their young, with references to the making of the documentary film depicting their ordeal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598.47 JACJacquet, Illinois.
Contents: Frantic Fanny -- Stella by starlight -- Satin doll -- Banned in Boston -- Indiana (Back home again in Indiana) -- Ydeen-O -- Imagination -- How now? -- Reverie -- Pucker up.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JACJacquet, Illinois.
Contents: When my dreamboat comes home -- Desert winds -- Star eyes -- Blues for the early bird -- Lester leaps in -- You're my thrill -- Canadian sunset.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Music Group 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JACJacquet, Illinois.
Contents: I wrote this for the kid (11:53) -- Saph (2:42) -- Mambocito mio (2:51) -- The kid and the brute (8:25) -- September song (4:51) -- Jacquet's dilemma (3:09) -- Little Jeff (2:40) -- Jacquet jumps (1:48) -- Blue nocturne (3:06) -- On your toes 93:15) -- R.U. one (2:53) -- JATAP conga (2:54) -- It's the talk of the town (3:27) -- Heads (3:19) -- On your toes (3:17).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JACJacquet, Illinois
Contents: Tickletoe / L. Young (7:09) -- Smooth sailin' / A. Cobb (6:48) -- More than you know / Youmans, Rose, Elicsu (5:29) -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Sampson, Webb (4:15) -- Three buckets of jive / E. Barefield (5:45) -- You left me all alone (4:11) ; Runnin' with Ron (5:13) ; Blues from Louisiana (5:33) ; Port of Rico (4:46) / I. Jacquet -- Flyin' home / Hampton, Goodman (3:42).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JACJacquet, Jennifer
Summary: "Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 JACSummary: For many years, Marie and Jean have happily spent their vacations together at their country house. One day at the beach, Marie naps in the sand while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Did he drown? Did he run off? Distraught, Marie notifies the authorities. But after an extensive search, no body is found, and Marie is left in a painful limbo, unable to properly grieve for her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDDillon, Leo
Summary: Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILDillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILDillon, Mike.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.8927 DILMarques, Luana.
Summary: In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, Ph.D., describes the spectrum of almost anxiety symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on the other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 MARDillon, Leo
Summary: In text and pictures, this book tells us how much better the world would be, if kids were allowed to run the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARPouillon, Nora
Summary: "A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table. The current proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine owes its existence to this mostly unheralded, groundbreaking woman who changed the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POUILLON, NORA POUSewell, Jacquie
Summary: One medium-size whale carcass delivers as much food to the dark, cold ocean depths as 4,000 years of sinking food particles. When a dead whale arrives, the café opens for business, and who better than Dan Tavis to show us the bizarre deep-ocean diners who show up? Hagfish, zombie worms, sleeper sharks--this group of patrons is stranger than the denizens of the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.7 SEWFisher, Jacquie
Summary: Build your way through thirty fantastic STEM experiments, brick by brick! Fun projects that are perfect for fans of LEGO Masters and science subjects! Does your young scientist love LEGOs? Then this is the book for them! Contained within these pages is an assortment of experiments and activities to teach your child all about Science and STEM subjects using LEGO bricks. n Brick Science, various...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 500 FISToliver, Marques.
Contents: CanAan -- Stay -- If only -- Try your best -- Repetition -- Weather man -- Magical look -- Control -- Something wrong -- Find your way back home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOLMarie, Racquel
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves and what starts as a shaky alliance of necessity blossoms into something more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARMarques, Luana
Summary: "A Harvard-based psychotherapist presents a clinically-proven three-step method to overcome anxiety and achieve goals that is based on the lessons she learned growing up in poverty in Brazil"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MARContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017