Biskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Team up with Max Axiom to learn all about global warming and its effects on the Earth. From melting glaciers to wacky weather patterns, heating up our planet wreaks havoc on its resources and inhabitants. Young readers will understand global warming and harness the power to help make a difference! Download the free Capstone 4D app for an augmented reality experience that goes beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 BISBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: "On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLYBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: Join super scientist Max Axiom as he explores the technology behind and everyday use of robots in our world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 BISBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Explores the real-world science and engineering related to Superman's super-vision"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.8 BISBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Super Scientist, Max Axiom, presents step-by-step photo-illustrated instructions for conducting a variety of forces and motion experiments and activities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.6 BISSummary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIBurton, Dreena
Summary: Presents two hundred whole-foods-based recipes that use fresh, seasonal ingredients and emphasize gluten-free options, natural sweeteners, raw foods, beans, and greens to satisfy even the pickiest eaters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BURReino, Jessica
Summary: Explains what food allergies are, how food allergy sufferers can become their own advocates, and how to cook well and live well with dietary restrictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.1 REIReno, Tosca
Summary: Author Reno shares the slim-down secrets of fitness models and celebrities, teaching readers how to finally lose that last 10 pounds and keep it off for good. Includes 50 new Eat-Clean recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Kennedy Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 RENGoodman, John
Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TREReno & Smiley
Contents: Dill pickle rag--Lee highway blues--Dear old dixie--Whiskey before breakfast--I don't love nobody--Whistlin' rufus--Silver bells--Kansas city railroad blues--Black eyed susan--Lost indian--Under the double eagle--Katy hill--Salt creek--Limehouse blues--Big sandy--Kingdom coming
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rural Rhythm 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY RENSummary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOBadly Drawn Boy
Contents: Banana skin shoes -- Is this a dream? -- I just wanna wish you happiness -- I'm not sure what it is -- Tony Wilson said -- You and me against the world -- I need someone to trust -- Note to self -- Colours -- Funny time of year -- Fly on the wall -- Never change -- Appletree Boulevard -- I'll do my best.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AWAL Recordings Ltd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADWest, Delno C.
Summary: Presents the backgrounds of such American symbols as Uncle Sam and the Liberty Bell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.92 WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America West,Summary: Violet is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion for singing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, it is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TEEBadly Drawn Boy
Contents: The shining -- Everybodys stalking -- Bewilder -- Fall in the river -- Camping next to water -- Stone on the water -- Another pearl -- Body rap -- Once around the block -- This song -- Bewilderbeast -- Magic in the air -- Cause a rockslide -- Pissing in the wind -- Blistered heart -- Disillusion -- Say it again -- Epitaph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADSummary: The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EURSummary: Set on the eve of world WWII, Hitler is rising to power and Stalin's Soviet propaganda machine is pushing their "utopia" to the West. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MR.Badly Drawn Boy.
Contents: Coming in to land -- Have you fed the fish? -- Born again -- 40 days, 40 fights -- All possibilities -- I was wrong -- You were right -- Centrepeace -- How? -- Further I slide -- Imaginary lines -- Using our feet -- Tickets to what you need -- What is it now? -- Bedside story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ARTISTdirect 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADBadly Drawn Boy.
Contents: In safe hands -- The order of things -- Too many miracles -- What tomorrow brings -- I saw you walk away -- It's what I'm thinking -- You lied -- A pure accident -- This electric -- This beautiful idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The End Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSummary: A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SEC1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SEC