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Forbes, Grania.

Summary: On 4 August 1999, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday! The Queen Mother's life thus tells in its own distinctive way the story of the twentieth century, and as the years pass, she is increasingly venerated as 'a beloved national institution.' Forbes, a British journalist specializing in the royal family, offers a pictorial biography that, as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 ELI

Summary: Investigates the theory that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union as a screen for the decommissioning of the Duga (i.e., Woodpecker) ballistic missle advance warning system (based in the vicinity of the reactor) because of the inevitable change in relations between Ukraine and what was soon to become post-Cold War Russia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Itō, Junji

Summary: "After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a "weeping woman"--a professional mourner--sobbing inconsolably at a funeral. Mako changes afterward--she can't stop crying! In another tale, having decided to die together, a couple enters Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest. What is the shocking otherworldly torrent that they discover there? One of horror's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021

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Summary: "True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011

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

Itō, Junji

Summary: "A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021

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Rania

Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010

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Todd, Anna

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Summary: "A good girl-- a bad boy-- something undeniable-- and everything after. Tessa Young is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother determined to keep her on course. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin Scott, with his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos. He's good looking, confident, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, a division of Wattpad Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AFT

Summary: "A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAN

Summary: Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUT

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

Rani, Hania

Contents: Eden -- Sun -- Hawaii oslo -- Pour trois -- Biesy -- Luka -- Glass -- Today it came -- Esja -- Now, run

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RAN

Aranya.

Summary: In this unique book, Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. Linking theory to practice, he places the ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Publications 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 ARA

Sorbet.

Contents: Paradise) -- Only For The Young (feat. Arborist) -- The Candle -- (Purgatory) -- Beaming Signals -- Born Purple (feat. Mícheál Keating) -- I Heard His Scythe (feat. Maija Sofia) -- Kettle Boil (Disobedience) -- The End Of Time -- (Hell). Electronic music.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau B Records 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SOR

Summary: A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Granite 2015

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

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

Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUS

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

Summary: Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN

Torres

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021

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

Torres, J.

Summary: On a camping trip with the Junior Rangers, Jay feels like the odd one out. He's determined to get a photo of Bigfoot--but none of his friends believe Bigfoot exists. But if there's no such thing as Bigfoot, why is there a giant footprint? And who is stealing all the snacks? Meanwhile, Sass the Sasquatch and her curious forest friends are playing practical jokes on the campers. On the last day...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018

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Summary: American soldiers try to hold off Japan's invasion of the Philippines; after surrendering to Japan, an American army colonel organizes a Filipino guerrilla force; follows an elite group of soliders trained for anti-guerilla warfare in Vietnam; the crew of an American submarine head to Tokyo Bay to prepare for the Doolittle air raid.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRE

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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 FOR

Forbes, Nancy

Summary: Two veteran science writers with special expertise in physics and engineering tell the story of how two brilliant 19th-century scientists, separated in age by 40 years, discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field, giving rise to many of the technological innovations we have today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 537 FOR

Forbes, Steve

Contents: The Persian Empire : cultural diversity, self-determination, and the art of making money -- Cyrus the Great : lessons in tolerance and inclusion -- Classical Greece : do thinkers make good leaders? -- Xenophon : building consensus and finding direction -- Alexander the Great : the price of arrogance -- Carthage: a business man's paradise -- Hannibal of Carthage : innovation -- The Roman...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FOR

Summary: An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFF

Bramble, Forbes

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Hamilton 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

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