Summary: The Chew: A Year of Celebrations will guide you through the planning, cooking, and, of course, rejoicing in the year's most celebrated events. With a complete spread for each celebration, including drinks, appetizers, entrIes, sides, and desserts, the guesswork is taken out of menu creation; all that's left to do is prepare and enjoy the fantastic food. Everyone will feel the love in the air...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingswell 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 CHEContents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MITForman, Janis
Summary: Storytelling can be a lifelong and life sustaining habit of mind, a personal inheritance that connects us to our communities. It can also serve as an organizational inheritance -- a management tool that helps businesses to develop and thrive. For more than a decade, award-winning author Janis Forman has been helping executives to tell stories in service of their organizational objectives. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FORWortman, Marc (Marc Josef)
Summary: Describes how Franklin D. Roosevelt quietly used his power and all the tools he had to assist Winston Churchill in fighting the Axis long before the United States' official entry into World War II. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 WORSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Johns, Jessica
Summary: A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: Katniss realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival; they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends; including Gale, Finnick and Peeta; Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HUNAllen, Jessica L.
Summary: A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as Chicago Lichens are dynamic, symbiotic organisms formed by close cooperation between fungi and algae. There are over 20,000 identified species performing essential ecosystem services worldwide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.7097 ALLSummary: Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: Produced with the purpose of alleviating the stigma associated with dyslexia, The big picture features the testimony of individuals from various backgrounds diagnosed with dyslexia (including investment advisor Charles Schwab and billionaire Richard Branson) describing how they learned to live with and overcome their disability. Medical experts explain the neurological causes of the condition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIG1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 616.8 BIG
Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATForman, James
Summary: "An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law. Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FORSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMSummary: As Britain and the world are shaken by volatile political, economic, and technological developments, members of the Manchester Lyons family unite on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next fifteen years, the twists and turns of their lives are explored as viewers find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YEASummary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASContents: Devil with a blue dress on & Good golly Miss Molly / Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels -- Raise your hand / Eddie Floyd -- Can't sit down / The Bim Bam Boos -- I'm a coward / Gino Washington -- When you walk in the room / The Searchers -- Boom boom / John Lee Hooker -- Have love will travel / Richard Berry and the Pharaohs -- I fought the law / The Bobby Fuller Four -- Mona / Bo Diddley --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJKorman, Gordon
Summary: Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WILContents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012