Summary: In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STAMurphy, Frank
Summary: Presents an introduction to the life and achievements of Clara Barton, from her childhood in Massachusetts and her early career as a schoolteacher to her accomplishments as a field nurse during the Civil War and her founding of the American Red Cross.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MURSummary: Diana Guzman is always fighting, whether at home in the housing projects with her abusive dad or at high school. She finds a new outlet for her anger at her brother's boxing gym. With hard-core training from veteran boxing coach Hector, Diana learns she has the guts and talent to be a contender.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: The apocryphal story of the meeting of British explorer John Smith and Powhatan native Pocahontas as a romantic idyll between spiritual equals. It then follows Pocahontas through her marriage to John Rolfe and her life in England. Includes Extended; Theatrical; and First Cuts. Also contains Making 'The New World', a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A barrister defends a naval cadet accused of stealing a postal money-order.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WINRosenstock, Barb
Summary: "When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 RosSummary: The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "In Paris, Julia devoured recipe books, shopped in outdoor markets, consumed all kinds of foods, and whipped through culinary school. And although she wasn't always successful in the kitchen, she was determined to "master the art" of French cooking. Through perseverance and grit, Julia became a chef who shared her passion with the world, making cooking fun, and turning every meal into a special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB CHILD PRURobbins, Dean
Summary: "It's RBG like you've never seen her before! Using a mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an American trailblazer. The first book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on Ruth's lifelong mission to bring equality and justice to all. Sarah Green's spot-on comic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GINWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: Meet thirty-five female athletes who played hard, broke records, and inspired girls around the world. You'll read about the first woman horse jockey to compete in the Kentucky Derby, the number one tennis player in the world, a surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack, and a snow boarder who landed a death-defying jump, along with many others. Includes: Simone Biles * Gretchen Bleiler * Hannah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids/Running Press Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEISummary: Neil is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina. After visiting Mont Saint-Michel, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Marina meets a priest and fellow exile, who is struggling with his vocation, while Neil renews his ties with a childhood friend, Jane.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To 2013Hannigan, Kate
Summary: "Celebrate the inventor of the dishwasher in this inspiring STEM/STEAM picture book biography about Josephine Garis Cochrane, the brains behind one of the world's most-used kitchen appliances."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COCGreen, Connie.
Summary: A volume of seasonally organized recipes provides foraging instructions for wild ingredients and step-by-step cooking techniques for such dishes as bacon-wrapped duck stuffed morels and mulberry ice cream.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: World War II turns Molly's family upside down. While her father is away, war breaks out on the McIntires' home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AmCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Molly 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Steve Boorstein, a fabric care and dry cleaning expert gives tips to both men and women on how to take care of your wardrobe. Steve covers the following topics: how to remove stains, washing clothes, using bleach, stain emergencies, shopping for clothing (including reading care labels, inspecting clothing and buttons), men's dress shirts, and closet care (including storage, seasonal clothing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fashion Media 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.1 CLOParker, Charlie
Contents: Symphony Sid's opening remarks/All God's children got rhythm -- More remarks from Symphony Sid/Move -- Hot house -- Ornithology (incomplete) -- Always -- Sweet Miss -- Long Island sound -- Once in a while -- Mean to me -- You go to my head -- Sax of a kind -- Ornithology -- Cheryl -- Ko Ko -- Bird of paradise -- Now's the time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jass Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PARGruen, Sara.
Summary: When an explosion at the Great Ape Language Lab severely injures scientist Isabel Duncan and releases her special apes, she must connect with her own kind to save her family of apes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUGruen, Sara.
Summary: The wildly entertaining new novel from the bestselling author of Water for Elephants. BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GruGruen, Sara
Summary: While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into his father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gruen 2015Gruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUGruen, Sara.
Summary: Life is good for Jacob Jankowski. He's about to graduate from veterinary school and about to bed the girl of his dreams. Then his parents are killed in a car crash, leaving him in the middle of the Great Depression with no home, no family, and no reer. Almost by accident, Jacob joins the circus. There he falls in love with the beautiful performer Marlena, who is married to the circus' psychotic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2011