Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASForms
Contents: Stel -- Innizar -- Sunday -- Seagull -- Classical -- Stravinsky -- Black metal.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Threespheres 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FORLucille Firs
Contents: Another land -- Leave it as you found it -- Do no harm -- Paint euphrosyne blue -- Sooner than later -- All flowers before her -- Eventually, -- Madre de exiliados -- Karaoke trials -- 34th floor -- Transmitting from the blind guard -- Almond bees -- No word in english
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LUCGirls.
Summary: Girls create the perfect San Francisco summer record with a disc that evokes a psychedelic summer afternoon via powerful songwriting and ethereal production.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: True Panther Sounds 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GIRSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONEFriendly Fires (Musical group)
Contents: Live those days tonight -- Blue cassette -- Running away -- Hawaiian air -- Hurting -- Pala -- Show me lights -- True love -- Pull me back to Earth -- Chimes -- Helpless.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FRIFriendly Fires (Musical group)
Summary: With their first album since 2011's Pala, Friendly Fires' third full-length release mixes 80s pop and some disco with electronic rhythms and rapid beats suited to today's dance halls.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FRIFairs, Marcus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.2 FairsFirth, Henry
Summary: "Do you want to go vegan but have no idea where to start? BOSH!, the pioneers of simple, delicious plant-based cooking and the guys behind the biggest vegan video channel on the web, are here to help! BOSH!: How to Live Vegan covers all aspects of vegan living from plant-based food and wine to vegan toiletries, travel, and clothes. Henry and Ian address the benefits of veganism on our health...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 FIRKiros, Tessa.
Summary: The author includes autobiographical memories, a family tree and portraits, and personal commentary with the recipes, explaining that she was, "born in London to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cypriot father, when I was four we moved to South Africa. I now live in Italy."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McNeel 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 KIRSummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVEFiges, Orlando
Summary: "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGDisney Faires.
Summary: Presents two fairy stories featuring Rani, a water-talent fairy who wonders if she should live with the mermaids, and Fira, a light-talent fairy, who must cope with an illness among the fireflies and train three new fairies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disnye 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J DisFaris, Stephanie
Summary: Gabby's father has a podcast called Ghost Search, and this time they are investigating a haunted bookstore--ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts and always tries to debunk the hauntings, but this time she is not so sure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIRKiros, Tessa.
Summary: Tessa Kiros shares a bevy of diverse and easy-to-prepare dishes playfully themed in colored chapters. An index references both specific foods and recipes. With memories of daisy chains, ice cream cones, circuses, and four-leaf clovers, Kiros shares her belief that good food sparks cherished memories that intensify life's melting pot of flavor. --publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub., LLC 2007
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Summary: "A kid's guide to leaving the planet from someone who's done it! Former astronaut Terry Virts guides readers through the practical elements of becoming an astronaut, along with the wonders (and challenges!) of space travel. With insider information on training, piloting a ship, and working in space, readers and aspiring astronauts will be inspired to start their own journey to the stars. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 VIRFaris, Stephan.
Summary: While reporting from Darfur, journalist Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending--and largely unanticipated--crises such changes have in store for the world. Here, he provides some answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.25 FARSirls, William
Summary: When a lightning bolt shatters a decorative cross in the yard of a church in a small town in Michigan, a carpenter shows up to repair it. But the carpenter is no ordinary man, as the church pastor, his odd family, and local medical staff treating his adoptive grandchild for leukemia find out in a series of miraculous events that change them dramatically.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIRTasby, Finis
Contents: Mercy's blues -- Georgia slop -- I just got to know -- Jump children -- Cold, cold feeling -- It's your fault, baby -- I missed you bad -- Ah'w baby -- The jive -- The sun is shining -- Please accept my love -- Job for Christmas.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence Music 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES TASVirts, Terry
Summary: Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting--a behind-the-scenes look at the training, the basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel, including how to deal with a dead body in space, what it's like to film an IMAX movie in orbit, what exactly to do when nature calls, and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 VIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VIRTS VIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space VirtsFiges, Orlando.
Summary: A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. We know of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, however, has explored the regime's effect on people's personal lives. Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, this book reveals...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 FIGFiles, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016