Hacker, Andrew.
Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HACBecker, Elayne Audrey
Summary: Rora, a young, orphaned shapeshifter in a world that fears magic, must risk everything if she hopes to save her best friend Finley from a devastating illness that is sweeping the kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BECBecker, Elayne Audrey
Summary: With a magical illness running rampant and the continent arming for battle, the three realms' long-feared destruction seems inevitable, but the two shifters they believed would bring about Alemara's ruin may in fact hold the key to its survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen/Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BECBecker, Elayne Audrey
Summary: "Rora is a shifter, as magical as all those born in the wilderness--and as feared. She uses her abilities to spy for the king, traveling under different guises and listening for signs of trouble. When a magical illness surfaces across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating truth: Finley, the young prince and her best friend, has caught it, too. His only hope is stardust, the rarest of magical...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BECParker, Andrea
Contents: After dark -- Undercurrents -- Invasion -- Too good to be strange -- Time zones -- Frogspawn -- Empty words -- Unconnected (edit) -- Nearly there -- Swamp -- Angular art -- Too strange to be good (edit)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchin' Bass Limited
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PARParker, Andrew
Summary: An acclaimed, paradigm-shifting evolutionary biologist shows how the biblical story of Genesis uncannily reflects recent scientific discoveries--and finds room for divine inspiration within.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231.7 PARParker, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.9 PARParker, Andrea
Contents: Bass bin / Eggfooyoung -- Early days / Andrea Parker and David Morley -- Deeptro / ADJ -- B-boys take control / Eggfooyoung -- Bounce that ass / Andrea Parker featuring DJ Godfather -- Headlock / Chaotic State -- Scornfinger / Manasyt -- Raw / ADJ -- Uninvited / Andrea Parker and David Morley -- Krunk / Hydraulix -- Pressure lock / Cultek -- Freaky bitches / Andrea Parker featuring DJ Assault...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchin' Bass 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PARParker, Andrea
Contents: After dark--Empty words--Peripheral vision--Too good to be strange--Avocado drive--Invasion--Control freak--Crash mat--Vector mode--The swamp--Nuva beat--Locked door--Troublesome--Digital domain--Allegorical--Giant bassmantix--27th Ave--Barhomet--OVerpass--Ramsek--Smash up--Coron data
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchin' Bass Limited
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PARSummary: It tells the incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: A single mother discovers a scheme in her son's book to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather and sets out to execute the plan at any cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOOAcker, Ben
Summary: "If being a hero were easy, everybody would be one. Mattis Bans knows that he's meant to be a hero of the galaxy like the legendary Luke Skywalker, and when General Leia Organa's Resistance recruits him to join its efforts against the evil First Order, he finally has a chance to fulfill his destiny. But the rest of his squadron doesn't seem very promising. Sure, there's the Zeltron girl Lorica,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: The son of an Italian professor forms a relationship with his father's summer research assistant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Call 2018Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEASummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRYGarfield, Andrew
Summary: Follows the rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist, Tammy Faye Bakker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EYECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EYESummary: In Fireworks a dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a light and is drawn through the needle's eye to return less empty than before. Puce Moment reflects Anger's concerns with the myths and decline of Hollywood. Rabbit's moon, a fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combining elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. In Inauguration of the pleasure dome, members of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantoma Films 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FILSummary: Based on Michael Dobbs' best-selling novel about a man who schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals, and the bodies of those who oppose him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Norton, Andre.
Summary: "Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shann, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father with a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind." --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORSummary: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAGlass, Philip.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Nonesuch 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE GLASummary: Fern is a young farm girl who rescues a runt pig, Wilbur. Wilbur is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Charlotte's 2007Davis, Miles.
Contents: CD 1, Festival Mondial du Jazz d'Antibes, La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins, France (July 25, 1969). Introduction by André Francis -- Directions -- Miles runs the voodoo down -- Milestones -- Footprints -- 'Round midnight -- It's about that time -- Sanctuary -- The theme --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2013