Dry, Sarah
Summary: From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.48 DRYSummary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEFFry, Jason
Summary: Who is Darth Vader? How did the once great Jedi become a fearsome villain? Who are the allies and foes Darth Vader has faced? In this biography -- complete with black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and character profiles -- young readers will delight in learning the complete history of the Sith Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRYSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STASummary: Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YeSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGAnders, Lou/ Angleberger, Tom/ Chhibber, Preeti/ Convery, E. Anne/ Cordova, Zoraida
Summary: Recounts major events from Star Wars: The Clone Wars from the respective viewpoints of different characters, from Darth Maul to Yoda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Bennett, Tony
Contents: Don't get around much anymore (Michael Bublé) -- Who can I turn to (When nobody needs me) (Queen Latifah) -- Stranger in paradise (Andrea Bocelli) -- Watch what happens (Natalie Cole) -- Body and soul (Amy Winehouse) -- It had to be you (Carrie Underwood) -- Blue velvet (K.D. Lang) -- Don't get around much anymore (Michael Bublé) -- Blue velvet (K.D. Lang) -- Speak low (Norah Jones) -- On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD TONWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSSummary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sunshine 2009Summary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAISummary: Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUMFarao
Contents: Marry me -- Lula loves you -- Get along -- Luster of the eyes -- Cluster of delights -- Gabriel -- Melodiya -- The ghost ship -- Triumph over me -- Truthsayer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FARKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: "A surrealist novel about four teenagers who find unconventional ways to escape standardized tests and their perilous world, and discover that the only escape from reality is to face it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KINKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devils Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VANDr. Dre
Contents: Side A. The chronic (intro) -- F___ with Dre day -- Let me ride -- The day the niggaz took over.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Death Row Records 1992
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RAP DR.King, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffedtiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019