Summary: Explores the life of Brion Gysin, inventor of a hypnotic light device called the Dreammachine, which was intended to induce hallucinations and transform consciousness. Nik Sheehan interviews some of the '60s counter-culture's most eccentric icons including Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful and Marcus boon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind. 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLI

Contents: Going out (extract) Timothy Leary -- Raga jog (extract) Ravi Shankar -- Sibelius Symphony number 7 (extract) Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra -- Unforgettable Nat King Cole -- Later during a flaming riviera sunset AMM -- Daisy Bell Max Mathews -- Time on our hands Delia Derbyshire -- Rejoicing Ornette Coleman -- Animal dance The Modern Jazz Quartet -- Indeterminacy (extract) John...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

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Shoemake, Josh

Summary: Annotation An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts, and writers for centuries-men and women working out at the edge of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916 MOROCCO SHO

Liss, David

Summary: Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Alexander, Brian

Summary: "An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ALE

Max, D. T. (Daniel T.)

Summary: Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Max

Holub, Joan

Summary: With some extra magic and the power of friendship, Artemis and Orion help each other on their respective quests.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin QUIX 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOL

Summary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007

MacLeod, Alistair.

Summary: Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAC

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Brina, Elizabeth Miki

Summary: "A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclubhostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINA, ELIZABETH MIKI BRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRINA BRI

Weinzweig, Ari.

Summary: Take a trip to Camp Bacon with James Beard award-winner Ari Weinzweig as he guides you on a personal tour of bacon's long and curious history, and brings you right to the smokehouse door of some of his favorite bacon curers in the U.S. "Bacon is so integral to the culinary history of this country. The roots are so deep in our cooking, I think of it as the olive oil of North America." And that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.664 WEI

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Contents: No. 1 in E flat, op. 1, no. 1 -- No. 2 in G, op. 1, no. 2 -- No. 8 in one movement in B flat, WoO 39 -- No. 3 in C minor, op. 1, no. 3 -- No. 6 in E flat, op. 70, no. 2 -- No. 10 in E flat, op. 44 -- No. 7 in B flat, op 97 -- No. 9 in E flat WoO 38 -- No. 11 in G, op. 121a -- Trio in E flat, op. 38 -- No. 5 in D, op. 70, no. 1 -- Trio in D (after Symphony no. 2) -- Triosatz in E flat -- Trio...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1991

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Rubin, Susan Goldman

Summary: Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 RUB

Dilloway, Margaret

Summary: Struggling with grief over her uncle's death, twelve-year-old amateur astronomer Tuesday Beals makes a discovery that could save her favorite astronomy spots in Zion National Park from the threat of a new housing development.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers 2022

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Cherrix, Amy E.

Summary: The award-winning author of Eye of the Storm chronicles the lesser-known rivalry between former Nazi-turned-U.S. Cold War scientist Wernher von Braun and Russian rocket designer Sergei Korolev, explaining how their controversial scientific achievements shaped human history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 629.45 CHE

Summary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AME

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AME

Bracewell, Michael

Summary: In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet-a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry's words, "above all, a state of mind." Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 BRA

Masters, Nathan

Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MAS

Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BRO