Dunkley, Jo

Summary: Jo Dunkley combines her expertise as an astrophysicist with her talents as a teacher and writer in this lively and exceptionally clear introduction to the structure and history of the universe and its enduring mysteries. Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few of us understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 DUN

Contents: 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 MIT

Streater, Richard L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.791 STR

Contents: Disc 1: Money in my pocket -- A-so we stay -- Ration -- I've got a feeling (take 2) -- Knock on wood -- Baby I need your loving -- The world is on a wheel -- More dub -- More dub chapter II -- In heaven there is no beer -- Pretty face girl -- Make love not war -- Horse race -- Things not easy -- Virginia skank -- Fort Agustus rock -- Whip them jah jah -- If you had known -- Africa want us all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doctor Bird 2022

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MON

Summary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BES

Summary: Six books in the Who was? series, each offering a detailed account of a famous figure's life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SPO

Summary: Presents an anthology of spooky and scary tales for children that features such supernatural elements as mysteriously appearing tattoos and ghostly encounters in dark hallways.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCI

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PAC

Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAC

Contents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR

Christian, Charlie

Contents: Rose room / A. Hickman, H. Williams (2:45) -- Seven come eleven / B. Goodman, C. Christian (2:44) -- Till Tom special / B. Goodman, L. Hampton (2:59) -- Gone with "what" wind / C. Basie, B. Goodman (3:13) -- Grand slam / B. Goodman (2:49) -- Six appeal / B. Goodman (3:18) -- Wholly cats / B. Goodman (2:59) -- Royal Garden blues / C. Williams, S. Williams (3:00) -- As long as I live / H. Arlen,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1987

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CHR

Summary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MER

Summary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THE

Glass, Philip.

Contents: Changing opinion / [words by] Paul Simon (Bernard Fowler, vocals ; Michael Riesman, piano ; Paul Dunkel, flute) (9:57) -- Lightning / [words by] Suzanne Vega (Janice Pendarvis, vocals ; Jack Kripl, flute ; Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone ; Richard Peck, alto saxophone) (6:42) -- Freezing / [words by] Suzanne Vega (Linda Ronstadt, vocals and backing vocals ; Kronos String Quartet) (3:16) -- Liquid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 1986

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL Glass 1986

Summary: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOL

Dunkle, Elena.

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DUN

Nesbø, Jo

Summary: Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterisation, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø's dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin, a bereaved father must...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NES

Dunklee, Annika

Summary: When a young boy plants an avocado seed, his patience is tested while waiting for the seed to sprout and eventually grow into a tree.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUN

Summary: Nine travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN STA

Summary: A spicy adult comedy of manners, morals, and mid-life crises. A man who has everything nearly loses it all in an obsessive quest for a beautiful woman he spies from his Rolls-Royce.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Pictures Co. 1997

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEN