Summary: This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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Summary: Counts backward from ten to one, starting with ten toy school buses and ending with one toy city bus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2003
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Summary: "Effie moves to Brooklyn to live with her strange aunt and soon discovers that she might be a witch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RIOChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 EakKenyon, Sherrilyn
Summary: Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KENKim, Dong Hwa.
Summary: A young girl, growing up with her mother who owns a tavern, learns about life through village gossip, travelers and many questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLMayes, Phil Scott
Summary: Ted Verity doesn't like humans, and for good reason. But as part of an ancient race of divine beings, it's his mission to make their world a better place by weeding out the especially wicked ones. Fully capable of living undetected amongst humanity, he prefers solitude and enjoys a quiet way of life before he's drawn to a corrupt pharmaceutical company whose wanton greed is ruining lives. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2020
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC MAYSchwab, V. E.
Summary: Kell is one of the last Travelers -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes -- as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London, ruled by whoever has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2017
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Summary: "As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SCHCahill, Thomas.
Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.501 CAHColes, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 COLMartin, Laura
Summary: A century and a half after cloned dinosaurs forced humans to move into underground compounds, Sky discovers a clue to the whereabouts of her long-missing father and ventures above ground on a quest that has the potential to save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MARSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Return to Blessing, North Dakota, with the story of Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold. After graduating in May of 1900, the two make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNECahill, Thomas.
Summary: The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.501 CahilPatterson, James
Summary: The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PattersonCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PATRoberts, Nora
Summary: "It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GreenSchuette, Sarah L.
Summary: From two cabbages to twenty tomatoes, provides simple facts about fruits and vegetables as their numbers increase by twos, until one hundred peas are spread across the page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Schuette 2003Summary: It introduces viewers to a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia where two obsessed brothers are attempting to solve a 200-year-old mystery. Rick and Marty Lagina own most of Oak Island and are determined to find the treasure alleged to be buried there, despite the fact that the island is rumored to be cursed. Legend says seven people must die before the treasure is revealed, and so far,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks, LLC 2014
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CURAlvarez, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: Believing they have tamed all the wild winged horses, stable groom Rahkki and his Sandwen clanmates are stunned when a wild herd flies over their village, but this herd has crossed the ocean hoping to settle in a free land, unaware of the Sandwens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALVBeviglia, Jim.
Summary: For 40 years, Bruce Springsteen has held center stage as the quintessential American rock and roll artist, expressing the hopes and dreams of the American everyman and every woman through his vast array of insightful and inspirational songs. In Counting Down Bruce Springsteen: His 100 Finest Songs, rock writer Jim Beviglia dares to rank his finest songs in descending order from the 100th to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782 BEVMcAneney, Caitie
Summary: Once vilified as a savage beast and systematically exterminated, the gray wolf has only been restored to sustainable numbers over the past few decades. In this book, readers will discover the tragic history and the prejudice surrounding the gray wolf and learn how wolves were saved by the determined efforts of conservationists. Examining the misconceptions that caused wolves to be targeted in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018