Duncan, David Ewing
Summary: What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.8 DUNSummary: A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 13 RATED RDuncan, David James
Summary: "A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUNSummary: Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR RATED PGSummary: Hailed as the Prince of the Forest at his birth, wobble-legged Bambi the fawn lives deep in the woodland with his mother. His youth is filled with friends--Thumper, a jovial rabbit who says all the wrong things; Flower, a skunk with an inferiority complex; and Friend Owl, misanthrope of the treetops. As he grows, fun-and-games give way to the hardship of winter and the most terrifying,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAM RATED GKing, David.
Summary: The gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. Dr. Marcel Petiot was eventually charged with 27 murders, although authorities suspected the total was considerably higher. The trial became a circus, and Petiot enjoyed the spotlight. A harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THE RATED PG-13Crow, Sheryl
Contents: Prove you wrong (featuring Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris) (3:56) -- Live wire (featuring Bonnie Raitt & Mavis Staples) (5:09) -- Tell me when it's over (featuring Chris Stapleton) (4:58) -- Story of everything (featuring Chuck D, Andra Day & Gary Clark Jr.) (6:25) -- Beware of darkness (featuring Eric Clapton, Sting & Brandi Carlile) (3:39) -- Redemption day (Sheryl Crow & Johnny Cash) (4:48) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CRO POP/ROCKDunlap, Julie
Summary: "I Begin with Spring weaves natural history around Thoreau's life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreau's schoolboy essay about the changing seasons, Early Bloomer follows him through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB THOREAU DUNMcIlwain, Jeff.
Contents: Opening (3:11) -- For Anyone's Sake (2:58) -- Sharpening Knives (3:39) -- Gary Works (4:31) -- Hello Joe (1:19) -- Digging Out The Bullet (1:25) -- You Stay With Your Family (2:46) -- What Are You Thinking Joe? (4:10) -- Feel A Little Chill In My Bones (5:26) -- Back And Forth And Back And Forth (3:48) -- Joe Ain't Your Daddy (3:40) -- Joe And Connie (3:56) -- Boiling Over (3:28) -- Dorothy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milan Records 2014
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Contents: Impulse (6:01) -- Bifu (4:58) -- When A Tiger Meets A Rosa Rugosa (5:30) -- light moving (2:55) -- Solitude d'automne (4:12) -- Blue Fiddle (4:53) -- Third Sigh (3:23) -- Memory Games (5:01) -- Farewell (5:01) -- Ford's Farm (3:19) -- Whispering (2:48) -- Torua (4:13) -- shade (4:21) -- Echo Dash (2:17) -- Coming To (3:16) -- The Angry Birds of Kauai (4:01) -- Hilary's Hoedown (2:01) -- Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DG 2013
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Summary: "With the Army of the Dead--led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon--bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, or course, Cersei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMSummary: The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie's fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, and Jamie must now defend the home they have built together at Fraser's Ridge while Claire seeks to put her own skills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD OUTSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDSting
Contents: The last ship -- Dead man's boots -- And yet -- August winds -- Language of birds -- Practical arrangement -- The night the pugilist learned how to dance -- Ballad of the great Eastern -- What have we got? (featuring Jimmy Nail) -- I love her but she loves someone else -- So to speak (featuring Becky Unthank) -- The last ship (reprise).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD STI POP/ROCKSting
Contents: The Lazarus heart (4:34) -- Be still my beating heart (5:32) --Englishman in New York (4:25) -- History will teach us nothing (4:58) -- They dance alone : (Cueca solo) (7:16) -- Fragile (3:54) -- We'll be together (4:52) -- Straight to the heart (3:54) -- Rock steady (4:27) -- Sister moon (3:46) --Little wing / Jimi Hendrix (5:04) -- The secret marriage (2:03) / music by Hans Eisler (2:03).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&M Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD P/R STISummary: Four friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey." From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOOEwing, Kateri
Summary: In Drawing Is for Everyone, artist Kateri Ewing—author of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyone—guides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you’re drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you’ll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.2 EWISummary: Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNSummary: Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUT NOT RATEDSummary: When retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery, he and his wife Marge go on an exciting multi-million dollar winning spree to revive their small Michigan town. But when a selfish college student cheats the system, Jerry must find a way to make the game fair for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JERSummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022