Gaarder, Jostein
Summary: "One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx and Freud) with a mysterious mentor. But Sophie is also receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAASummary: Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He has three daughters and is a widower. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DanSummary: "It wasn't really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that briefly permeated pop, R&B and hip hop. The name was coined by Long Island trio De La Soul; they claimed D.A.I.S.Y. stood for 'da inner sound, y'all', but then De La Soul said a lot of things. Playfulness and good humour were central to their 1989 debut album, which cast a long, multi-coloured shadow. The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP DAISummary: Connor Mead is the kind of guy who dumps three girlfriends - at one time and by teleconference. So when he goes home to attend his brother's wedding, he has a singular goal in mind: score with the only bridesmaid he has somehow managed to miss. But the ghost of his departed Uncle Wayne - who taught him to love 'em and then leave 'em - has another goal in mind: restore Connor's lost faith in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GMorstein, Mona
Summary: "The evidence is clear: We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic. In the United States alone, one in three Americans is either diabetic (29 million patients) or prediabetic (87 million patients), costing an annual $242 billion in medical treatments. In Mastering Diabetes, naturopathic physician and diabetes expert Dr. Mona Morstein shows how people with both type 1 and type 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.462 MORSevåg, Øystein.
Contents: The door is open (5:25) -- There's a monk in my garden! (4:31) -- Miles near (1:45) -- Miles away (3:45) -- Trust your wings (4:32) -- The long night (2:23) -- Dance of angels (4:21) -- Picture (4:09) -- Afrikan flower (4:19) -- The door is still open (1:00) -- Link (3:36) -- Memory (5:16) -- My heart (5:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE SEVGaider, David.
Summary: "It's unusual for a king to embark on a dangerous quest himself rather than send emissaries, but King Alistair Theirin has caught wind of a rumor big enough, and personal enough, that he is compelled to investigate. With the deadly pirate Isabela and underworld merchant Varric Tethras by his side, Alistair travels to Antiva--the nation of assassins--to learn the fate of his long-lost father,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DRAStout, Carder
Summary: Psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and finding redemption in the most unlikely of places. Dr. Carder Stouts clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOUT, CARDER STOSevag, Oystein.
Contents: Seed (6:08) -- Spiral (1:12) -- Circle (5:23) -- Hanging gardens (6:54) -- Chorale (4:56) -- Pulse (3:29) -- The hermit's horse (4:42) -- White wings (3:42) -- Cobalt (5:52) -- Annual rings (2:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearts of Space 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE SEVSummary: A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DREGoitein, Lara
Summary: "This book is for ICU patients' families, suddenly immersed in an alien and intimidating world. It clearly explains intensive care ranging from the details of the equipment and environment, to decisions about end-of-life care, focusing on how the reader can become an effective advocate for their loved one"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 GOLJoosten, Titia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAMOlstein, Lisa
Summary: "Pain Studies is a book-length lyric essay at the intersection of pain, perception, and language. Through the prism of migraine, Pain Studies episodically and idiosyncratically explores personal, cultural, medical, and literary histories of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it--and undertakes extended engagements with a range of sources including the trial testimony of Joan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.042 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDER, JOSELIN LINOhrn, Josefin
Contents: Feel the sun -- I can feel it -- Desire -- Hey little boy -- Only lovers -- Baby come on -- New horizons -- Caramel head -- Let it come -- Whatever you want -- Floating away
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OHRSummary: Mala is a precocious girl living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place where peace and tolerance are celebrated. Unbeknownst to Mala and her fellow Terrians, the last inhabitants of Earth have exhausted the resources of their planet and those of three others. They are now searching for a new home. This Earthforce has discovered that the use of a Terraformer will make Terra habitable for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BATOhrn, Josefin
Contents: Dunes -- Sunny afternoon -- Sanity -- You have arrived
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OHROlstein, James
Summary: Discusses inventions made over the years. Full of weird and wacky facts and retro-inspired illustrations, Amazing Inventions is the perfect, fun introduction to everything from robots to nanoscience. Prepare to laugh, marvel, and learn. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians may have used kites to help build their pyramids? That robots have a hard time learning karate? Or that Australian...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 600 OLSGander, Forrest
Summary: "Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 GANRosten, Leo
Summary: An updated version of the informal dictionary which offers the history and folklore behind Yiddish and Hebrew words as well as literal translations adds information on linguistic and cultural changes since Rosten's day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 422.4391 ROSGardel, Carlos
Contents: Buenos Aires -- Barrio viejo -- Almagro -- Paseo de julio-- Caminito -- La cancion de Buenos Aires -- Fondin de Pedro Mendoza -- El bulin de la calle ayacucho -- Madreselva -- Corrientes -- Melodia de arrabal -- Barrio reo -- Ventanita de arrabal -- Bajo belgrano -- Jiron porteno (Oro muerto) -- Callecita de mi barrio -- Silbando -- A media luz -- Mi Buenos Aires querido.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Edicion Limitada 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GARJoslin, Sesyle.
Summary: Four brief humorous incidents told in Spanish accompanied by appropriate illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1967
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468.6 JOSRosten, Leo
Summary: More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, this book brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001