Summary: Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITBragg, Billy
Contents: Accident waiting to happen (3:59) -- Moving the goalposts (2:32) -- Everywhere (4:58) -- Cindy of a thousand lives (4:13) -- You woke up my neighbourhood (3:09) -- Trust (4:11) -- God's footballer (3:02) -- The few (3:25) -- Sexuality (3:47) -- Mother of the bride (3:34) -- Tank Park salute (3:34) -- Dolphins (3:28) -- North Sea bubble (3:17) -- Rumours of war (2:49) -- Wish you were her (2:45)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRASummary: Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HSummary: The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Summary: Richard Dawkins discusses the evolution of species and mankind in particular in relation to the massiveness of the universe, and explains the process of natural selection and genetics. Also discusses the evolution of purposes and goals, and the differences between designed and designoid objects in nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Dawkins Foundation 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROSummary: The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSEdelman, Hope.
Summary: Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of many other women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She explains the stages of grief and adjustment. She considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings. If you've lost your mother, you no longer have to face it alone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDEEdelman, Hope.
Summary: Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoirs, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDESummary: A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the isolated wilderness. But they soon become progressively worried when a severely injured man shows up to disrupt their peaceful existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HUNEdelman, Lana
Summary: When the toy clown invites the Little Engine to solve riddles as part of an Easter egg hunt, the Little Engine is worried until her friends pitch in and she finds her self-confidence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JBR GREEN EDEEdelman, Ric.
Summary: "From the #1 independent financial advisor in America, ranked three times by Barron's: a guide to making the most of your retirement plans and assuring long-term financial security. Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute to a retirement plan. That's because all plans--including the 401(k), 403(b), 457, and even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 EDESummary: "When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY JOY1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Edelman, Hope
Summary: "A validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel "stuck," why that's normal, and how shifting a perception of grief can help us grow--from the New York Times bestselling author of Motherless Daughters Shouldn't I be over this by now? Why do I still feel the pain? Because of the common assumption that grief should be time-limited, too many of us believe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 EDEEdelman, Randy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GETEdelman, Ric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperResource 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 EDEEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDEEdelman, Ric
Summary: Featuring the prophetic insights you'd expect from one of most acclaimed financial advisors, The Truth About Crypto is fun to read and easy to understand--and most importantly gives readers the sound, practical advice we all need to succeed with this new asset class. Best of all, Edelman shows how blockchain works, the difference between digital currency and digital assets, and a comprehensive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 EDEAdelman, Hallee
Summary: When Kat breaks a promise to Sage, she tries to apologize, but Sage, who is still hurt, ignores the apology, forcing Kat to find another way to make things right with her best friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADEGragg, Rod
Summary: Describes the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Includes facsimiles of journal entries, maps, and letters inserted in folders and under flaps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.8 GRAEdelman, Julian
Summary: Bill Belichick: "Julian is the epitome of competitiveness, toughness, and the great things that are possible when someone is determined to achieve their goals." Tom Brady: "It's a privilege for me to play with someone as special as Julian." The Super Bowl champion wide receiver for the New England Patriots shares his inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELMAN, JULIAN EDEGrego, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blandford 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.51 GREGreig, Louise
Summary: When a little boy opens the Night Box, darkness swoops out, a fox uncurls, and a thousand stars sparkle and shine. Night flows freely then, cavorting and exploring, caring for all its creatures until morning comes, and it's time for Night to rest again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GREGreig, Geordie
Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, LUCIAN GREAdelman, Bob.
Summary: A visual tribute to the civil rights movement and the battle for racial equality captures the leaders and events of the era, with portraits of Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other activists who took part in the struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Home Entertainment 2007