Geist, Mary Ellen.
Summary: Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springboard Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GEISummary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANElwes, Cary
Summary: From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 ELWSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1975
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of thise groups--expecially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ARLStarr, Ringo
Summary: Just before his solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ringo Starr releases his first new studio album in three years. He is joined by several guests including Joe Walsh, Richard Marx, Peter Frampton, and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STASummary: Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SANKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIKrist, Gary.
Summary: Summer 1919: the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into 'the Metropolis of the World.' But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose--the city's highest ambitions suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in the first...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.3 KRIWeiss, Ellen
Summary: Despite their differences, Porky the messy pig and Bess the fussy cat are best friends and support each other in all their endeavors, from poetry writing to cake baking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WEIKrist, Gary.
Summary: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 KRIWeiss, Ellen
Summary: Rhyming text follows a set of twins as they fight over two new toys, break one, and learn to share the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JE FICTION WeissWeiss, Ellen.
Summary: Rhyming text follows a set of sleepy twins as they get into their PJs, brush their teeth, and are tucked into bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2004
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWeiss, Ellen
Summary: When Isabelle agrees to be a flower girl at a wedding, she is so concerned about doing something wrong that she almost forgets to have fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2004
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Summary: A visit to the park includes playing in the sand and on the seesaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Weiss 2003Mark, Mary Ellen
Summary: Collects black-and-white photographs taken between 1963 and 1999, touching on issues of poverty, discrimination, and life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 MARKrist, Gary.
Summary: "In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US KristMarx, Groucho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006