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Berlin, Irving

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Irving Berlin Inc. 1944

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Basinger, Jeanine.

Summary: Film studies authority Basinger gives us an entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses. She shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us the "human factor," case studies focusing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.8097 BAS

Hanna-Attisha, Mona

1 hold on 7 copies

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

2 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-Attisha

Hanna-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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club Kit

Summary: "In the next 20 years, all human population growth on this planet will be in cities." In this TEDTalk, inventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the use of his Segway as an efficient means of getting around in the urban centers of the world. He also explains how the Segway's engine can produce energy that could be used, among other things, for purifying drinking water. "Lots of people talk...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: This third and final Spotlight Collection showcases 35 classic cartoons, 15 freshly remastered in their original CinemaScope widescreen. On any screen, large or small, Tom and Jerry remain the friskiest animated adversaries of all time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Banville, John

Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BAN

Summary: Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new USS Enterprise.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: In a re-telling of the story, Tom and Jerry help the boy Charlie attain a Golden Ticket and secretly accompany him into the Chocolate Factory to prevent one of Wonka's competitors from stealing a special candy known as the Everlasting Gobstopper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOM

Summary: This third and final Spotlight Collection showcases 35 classic cartoons, 15 freshly remastered in their original CinemaScope widescreen. On any screen, large or small, Tom and Jerry remain the friskiest animated adversaries of all time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Hood, Susan

Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARS

Meyer, Stephen C.

Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 MEY

Flood, Kate

Summary: "Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books Australia 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.875 FLO

Costa, James T.

Summary: "James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARWIN, CHARLES COS

Kelley, Margot Anne

Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022

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Summary: It's Halloween, time for spooky thrills and creepy chills. These seven animated adventures are filled with bats, ghosts, witches and our favorite cat and mouse team, Tom and Jerry!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOM

Danta, Ron

Summary: "From the stars of 'Life in the Doghouse' on Netflix and founders of one of the most recognizable rescue organizations in the world, Finding Our Forever Home is part memoir, part care-and-keeping-of-rescue-dogs, with a heartwarming, compassionate voice and a message of acceptance, kindness, and, of course, love"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 DAN

Gibbs, Stuart

Summary: After saving the world, Charlie is ready to take it easy in the Galapagos Islands. That is, until she's approached by the mysterious Esmeralda Castle, who has a code she knows only Charlie can decipher.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Tom and Jerry are in for spooks galore in this monster collection. With 20 eerie cartoons and two bonuses, your goodie bag will be overflowing with fun!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOM

Summary: Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse continue to taunt each other in their new adventures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOM

Summary: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track suspicious cases that may be attributed to the supernatural or involve interplanetary activity. Memorable moments from this season include Mulder's appearance on Jerry Springer's talk show and Scully working with her partner to fake Mulder's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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Shields, Jody

Summary: In this gorgeous, suspenseful novel, a Russian aristocrat races to stop a plague spreading from an isolated Manchurian city to the rest of the world. Based on a true story, this novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a long-lost book by a Russian doctor who chronicled a plague epidemic in Manchuria in 1910. A multi-series international television production of Shields' first novel "The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHI

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi

Summary: "At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin's drug business while he's in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends--it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 VEN

Glatt, John

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 on a borrowed cell phone. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her 12 siblings--ranging in age from 2 to 29--were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. 'I've never been out,' she stammered. To their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 GLA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 GLA

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