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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Fiction television programs Forests and forestry Fiction Friction Friendship Fiction Memory in literature Television adaptations Television comedies Truth in literature United States. War Relocation Authority. Photography Section.Summary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILCadier, Morgane de
Summary: "There are wonders all around us ... Why not go see what you can find? Every day, perched high up in her tree house, a girl surveys the distant forest through her binoculars. She knows every plant and animal. But look! A strange new tree appears, towering above all the others. Where did it come from? Is it really a tree? Intrigued, the girl sets off to take a closer look. Just to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2022
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Summary: Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Can you survive being trapped in a rain forest? Imagine a run-in with a poison dart frog in the Amazon Rain Forest, a chimpanzee in the African Congo, or a clouded leopard in the jungles of Southeast Asia. How far would you be willing to go to save your own life? Would it work? Flip through these pages to find out! What would you do in a life-or-death situation out in the wilderness? Now's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LASMullins, Matt.
Summary: Photographs and text introduce scientific concepts related to friction, explaining what friction is and what it affects, describing how people have used friction throughout human history, and providing additional facts, statistics, and a time line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.1134 MULSpiro, Ruth
Summary: "Baby discovers the science behind spinning a dreidel on Hanukkah, exploring angular momentum, torque, friction, and gravity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: BOARD SPINguyen, Mai K
Summary: Willow, who has been struggling with her emotions since her mother's death, runs away into the woods and meets Pilu, a lost tree spirit who cannot find her way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NGUGross, Gwendolen
Summary: In this mesmerizing first novel a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance. Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life -- studying spectacled fruit bats in the rain forest of Australia. She spends her free time discovering waterfalls and e-mailing her sister, Alice, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROBurks, James (James R.)
Summary: Squirrel and Bird return home and Bird wants to celebrate, but Squirrel's desire to clean his house, a dammed up river, and a growing menace making the forest animals jittery may be enough to kill the party mood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BURStilton, Geronimo
Summary: "I, Geronimo Stilton, was off to the wildest part of Brazil - the Amazon jungle! I ended up on a hunt for a rare crystal treasure, which was stolen from a native tribe in the heart of the forest. I'd encounter alligators, snakes, piranhas, and other dangers on my way. Holey cheese! What an adventure!" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIMoss, Marissa
Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEISummary: In the year 1897, Magda hopes to end the werewolf curse she placed on Quentin. She reveals to Barnabas that she has gained possession of the magical hand of Count Petofi. After the Collins family learns that Barnabas is a vampire, he is forced into hiding. When Jamison is possessed with the spirit of the dying David Collins from 1969, Count Petofi promises to save the boy if Barnabas reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 1969
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARFranklin, Ruth.
Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRAKhouw, Petta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3771 KhouwKnapman, Timothy.
Summary: When Alice and Jack are out playing, they hear a strange noise. Alice wants to know what it is, but Jack is afraid. He thinks it might be the Wicked Wolf with big, bad claws and snap-trap jaws. But Alice takes his hand and they follow the noise, right into the heart of the forest...Just what will they discover there?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Knapman 2017Campbell, Ramsey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMDuncan, David James.
Contents: River teeth: a definition -- Red coats -- Rose vegetables -- Her idiots -- Giving normal the finger -- A streetlamp in the Netherlands -- Kali's personal -- Another brutal Indian attack -- Northwest passage -- The garbage man's daughter -- The Mickey Mantle Koan -- Yellowjacket -- Molting -- First native -- Not rocking the boats -- My one conversation with Collin Walcott -- The king of Epoxy --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DuncaSummary: Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOSColmenares, Andrés J.
Summary: "Nine-year-old Iggie is the new kid in the town of Peculiar Woods, and nothing about his new home is familiar. So how is he supposed to make friends when he's not allowed to talk to strangers? On his first night in the strange new town, Iggie gets lost in the woods, where he discovers he can speak to inanimate objects. He soon teams up with his blanket, Faye, a talking chair and yoga enthusiast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Who is in the forest where it's bright and sunny? Busy, buzzing bees making tasty honey! Play hide-and-seek with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this fantastic finger trail lift-the-flap book! With a gentle rhyming narrative and an introduction to woodland friends, this book is perfect for little explorers."---
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Publisher / Publication Date: World of Eric Carle, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD CARDesmond, Matthew
Summary: "[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 DESMorris, Theresa
Summary: Examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists -- the cesarean section -- and challenges most existing explanations of this unprecedented rise, arguing that there is a new culture within medicine that avoids risk or unpredictable outcomes and instead embraces planning and conservative choices, all in an effort to have perfect births.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.8 MORJohnson, Eileen W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2007