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Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: To prove that one bad day can make any man as insane as he is, the Joker wages a psychological war on Batman that catches Commissioner Gordon and his daughter in the crippling crossfire and leaves scars on the Dark Knight that even time won't heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATGlass, Joe
Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GLAFrith, Michael K.
Summary: A youngster plans all the things he will teach his puppy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1973
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRIFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An illustrated biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provides information on his childhood in Hyde Park, marriage to Eleanor, political career, years as president, and influence on American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOSummary: A couple who sacrifice everything to achieve the highest possible accolade in the culinary world, a Michelin star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUNSummary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12Summary: Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSchmidt, Gary D
Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOJOURNER TRUTH SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHBach, P. D. Q.
Contents: Opening & introduction (4:50) -- Short-tempered clavier : preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys except for the really hard ones : S. easy as 3.14159265 (31:47) -- Introduction (3:16) -- Little pickle book (9:59) -- Introduction (1:16) -- Sonata da circo = Circus sonata : S. 3 ring (8:43) -- Calliope frustration (:42) -- Introduction (1:07) -- Three chorale-based piecelets : S. III...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACSummary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRingwald, Christopher D.
Contents: From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 203.6 RINSaudek, Christopher D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.462 SAUStone, Christopher D.
Summary: "In this collection of essays, the author argues that natural objects, such as trees, should have legal rights through the appointment of guardians designated to protect them. It covers such areas as : agriculture and the environment ; can the oceans be harbored ; establishing a guardian for future generations ; reflections on sustainable development ; how to heal the planet ; environmentalism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.04 STOSummary: The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family I Can 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans. Her story is told with lyricism and pathos by Gary D. Schmidt, one of the most celebrated writers for children in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Sojourner 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SOFriel, John C.
Summary: It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 FRISummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Lonesome 2008Summary: Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLASummary: The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2000