Gambell, Lizi
Summary: The Unschooled Life combines personal storytelling with advice and guidance for any parent on a home education journey. In this book, Lizi Gambell tells how her eldest son became deeply unhappy at school, and how things transformed when they left the system and started to build their own learning life. Lizi shares the ups and downs of this decision, including the process of confronting her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shore Line 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.042 GAMSummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Follows a homicide detective tracking an American serial killer hiding in his community, with the help of an FBI agent. When an old case comes back to haunt Wisting, how will he save others when he finds himself suspended and fighting for his reputation, career, and life?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WISContents: Disc one. Better (Hezekiah Walker) (1:30) -- Chasing me down (Israel Houghton, feat. Tye Tribbett) (1:23) -- Wanna be happy? (Kirk Franklin) (1:28) -- Joy (VaShawn Mitchell) (1:54) -- I'm good (Tim Bowman, Jr.) (1:44 --) -- Pressure (Jonathan McReynolds) (1:05) -- Run run (Smokie Norful) (1:26) -- I'll be the one (Bri (Briana Babineaux)) (1:35) -- The question (Erica Campbell) (1:13) -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Inspiration 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWBoyd, Lizi
Summary: In this story without words, a boy explores the woods after dark with a flashlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYSummary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: "Meet Arthur and Stanley, two wrongly accused and out-of-work actors who escape from the police by stowing away aboard a luxury liner. But soon these two impostors find themselves giving the performance of a lifetime - not only to escape the authorities, but to foil the dastardly plot of a deranged crewman who has explosive plans for everyone on board."--Back of container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPSummary: When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010
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Summary: On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. Rose Thorn, her youngest daughter, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYBoyd, Lizi
Summary: A celebration of the joy of reading books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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Summary: Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ERNErnst, Lisa Campbell.
Summary: In the style of a classic cumulative rhyme, the children undo all of Dad's hard work cleaning the family car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ERNGammell, Stephen.
Summary: While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
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Summary: Fifty years after Goldilocks first met the three bears, she returns to fix up their cottage and soothe her guilty conscience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2000
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Summary: On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. Rose Thorn, her youngest daughter, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Laozi
Summary: Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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Summary: Oy vey! When elderly mystery writer Agatha Krinsky falls for the fifth time, her nephew Sheldon insists she move into an assisted living facility. True to form, on her first day in her new home Agatha discovers a body in the library. But the staff won’t take her seriously, and even her elderly luncheon companions — Herschel Perlow, Miss Eppel, and Ronny and Rubles Bernfeld — are more interested...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ASTFang, Lizhi.
Summary: Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FANG, LIZHI FANShepherd, Lizz
Summary: Almost 25% of city homeowners lack the yard space needed to cultivate and grow a decent sized garden (according to Seattle Lawn and Garden) meaning more and more people interested in harvesting flowers, vegetables, and herbs are turning to containers. The options provided by containers are plentiful. This book will provide every potential container gardener with the necessary steps and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Publishing Group 2011