Summary: Investigating a massive chemical spill in West Virginia that left 300,000 people without drinking water for months, filmmaker Cullen Hoback uncovers government and corporate collusion with frightening nationwide public health implications.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2014, to reduce costs, city officials changed the source of Flint, Michigan's drinking water supply and as a result subjected its population to dangerous levels of lead contamination. This program looks at the logistics of the Flint water crisis and exposes vulnerabilities that exist in water systems throughout the county.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POISummary: Exposing the deadly toll from the Flint water crisis. A two-year FRONTLINE investigation uncovers the roots and extent of a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak during the water crisis, and how officials failed to stop it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEMSiegel, Seth M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, thinkagain. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: "Poison on Tap is a compelling case study in how government at all levels can go very wrong and yet shows the power of the human spirit to overcome" - back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.43 POIClark, Anna
Summary: "Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.6 Clark 2018Harr, Jonathan.
Summary: "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346 HARBernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERPatterson, James
Summary: "The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Patterson, James
Summary: The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. Meanwhile, a deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2011Masters, Nancy Robinson.
Summary: Examines the water cycle, capturing and storing water and how water gets to homes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J628.1 MASBatmanghelidj, F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Health Solutions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 BATKerley, Barbara.
Summary: Depicts people around the world collecting, chilling, and drinking water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 363.6 KerleSalzman, James.
Summary: When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gildan Audio 2012
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Summary: Step up to the bar at Paddy's Pub and get into the crazy world of Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac as they pursue even more outrageous subjects like cannibalism, glory-hole fixations, or Dennis's over-the-top sexual memoirs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1938, in a backwater corner of the South Pacific, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hijinks, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TALSummary: Home use only.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Kluger, Richard
Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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21 available in Adult Display, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HAN1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HAN
Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PSummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAShalev, Zahavit.
Summary: A look at the different kinds of grassland animals that visit the water hole day or night, including elephants, zebras, giraffes, lions, and hawks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005