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Edison, Chris

Summary: Young inventor Marie can't believe her luck - she's spending her summer holidays in California, at the high-tech headquarters of Vance Corps! She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do super-cool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC publishing 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EDI

Summary: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: a misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

Dixon, Chris

Summary: A hundred miles off the California coastline, a fabled peak rises from the depths of the North Pacific, stopping just fifteen feet short of the ocean's surface. Legends and grave warnings surround this submerged mountain, known as Cortes Bank-- rumors of lost ships, spinning compasses, of bus-size sharks and man-size lobsters. Yet, the most daring of big wave surfers head out to the Bank for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.32 DIX

Dixon, Chris.

Summary: Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet under the surface of the ocean. A sailor will tell you to avoid Cortes Bank at all cost the treacherous seamount can destroy a hull without warning. A fisherman will tell you that the bank is a lost Eden teeming with enormous abalone, lobsters, and shark. A diver might spin an unbelievable yarn about a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2011

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Summary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2018

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVE

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

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

Dixon, Chris

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "The Internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of creativity and innovation. In the past decade, the Internet has fallen under the control of a tiny group of massive companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Brand, Christo

Summary: After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON BRA

Summary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Rock opera musical version of the last days of Jesus Christ.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS JES

Summary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AIR
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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

Summary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Contents: Alone (feat. Madison Cunningham) -- Heading for home (feat. John Legend) -- Twelve-thirty (young girls are coming to the canyon) (feat. Susanna Hoffs, Chris Stills, Sheryl Crow) -- Down in the willow garden (feat. Brandi Calile) -- Shenandoah -- Nacht und Träume -- Harvest (feat. Andrew Bird, Chris Stills) -- Going to a town (feat. Anohni) -- High on a rocky ledge (feat. David Byrne) -- Kaulana...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAI

Summary: Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2003

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

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Complete second season, 1960-1961, of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and frightening.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Contents: Strut Miss Lizzie (2:32) -- Old King Tut (2:57) -- It Had To Be You (3:17) -- Everybody Loves My Baby (3:08) -- You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) (2:51) -- Baby Won't You Please Come Home (3:47) -- Make Believe (2:47) -- Lovesick Blues (2:53) -- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:53) -- Who's Sorry Now (3:16) -- You'd Be Surprised (3:04) -- I'm Going...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013

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Summary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Summary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE AVE

Summary: It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: The story of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth and teachings to His crucifixtion and Resurrection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

McGhee, Alison

Summary: "What can a small angel give a most important baby? A Christmas story about the greatest gift of all"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E MCG

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MCG

Summary: A dark comedy which retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood set against a modern background of prostitution, drugs and serial killers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Freeway 2007

Pfister, Marcus.

Summary: Various people and animals are drawn by a magnificent star to Bethlehem to see the newborn Christ.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 1993

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E PFI

Summary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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