Dubois, Michael.
Summary: Lonely Planet's Travel Book especially for kids. Takes the inquisitive, data-hungry explorer on a tour of 200 countries. Packed with iconic images, evocative stories and informative facts and stats. In-the-know info on captial cities, language, currency, epic events, hideous histories, food, festivals and wildlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINHolten, Katie
Summary: "Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELContents: Don't bring me down (The Pretty Things) -- Bo street runner (Bo Street Runners) -- It's not true (Larry's Rebels) -- Make up your mind (The Mike Cotton Sound) -- Number one (The Stormsville Shakers) -- Can you hear me (The Artwoods) -- Stop! Wait a minute (The In Crowd) -- But she's mine (John's Children) -- Wait for me (The Fleur de Lys) -- My time (The Golden Dawn) -- Mr you're a better man...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MOJO 2015
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INHeden, Karl E. (Karl Erik)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bruce Humphries Publishers 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 910.45 HEDDahl, Michael/ Wagner, Kathi/ Wagner, Aubrey/ Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: Presents a collection of jokes, riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers, and provides tips about how to deliver the perfect punch line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 DAHSummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Summary: 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 Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Charlotte'sSummary: An inspiring true story of courage and friendship the whole family will love. When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty discovers that the mythical Mavericks surf break is real, he reaches out to local surfing legend Frosty Hesson to train him to ride it. What begins as a mentorship turns into an extraordinary bond that transforms both their lives, as Jay and Frosty learn valuable lessons about conquering...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHAWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1929, an impoverished fishing village father sells his nine-year-old daughter, Chiyo, to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and she becomes subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. As she grows older, her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo. She is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDWilsen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILSummary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STOHolden
Contents: Rannoch dawn -- II: A circle inside a circle inside :II -- Renata -- Caterpillar's intervention -- Sky burial -- Illuminations -- IInter-city 125 -- Delabole -- Seven stars -- Gone feral -- Inheritors -- Circle of fifths -- Some respite -- Blackpool late eighties -- Self playing schmaltz
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Border Community 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HOLSummary: It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family BFG 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BFGSummary: "In this compendium of 5-minute really true stories about bedtime, you can go on a journey of wonder and learning to find out the answers to all these questions, and many more! Travel to Ancient Egypt to explore the beds of Tutankhamun, jet off into space to see how astronauts get ready for bed, or even plunge underwater to learn how hibernating turtles breathe through their bottoms! There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOYPiercy, Helen/ Ruffle, Mark (ILT)/ Slack, Michael (ILT)/ Wiehle, Katrin (ILT)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Hayden.
Contents: The closer I get -- Stride -- The hazards of sitting beneath palm trees -- Bullet -- Waiting for a chance to see her -- Two doors -- Between us to hold -- Better off inside -- Instrumental with Mellotron -- Memphis -- Nights like these -- You are all I have -- I'll tell him tonight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Outpost Recordings 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAYSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Hinden, Stan.
Summary: Retirement columnist Stan Hinden's bestselling How to Retire Happy, Fourth Edition, helps you make the right decisions to ensure a happy, healthful retirement. It delivers all the expert advice you need in an easy-to-understand step-by-step style. How to Retire Happy includes everything that has made previous editions the go-to guides for retirees and near-retirees, plus Brand-new material on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.79 HINMeng, Kaari
Summary: The founder of the French General jewelry store shares beading projects inspired by the changing seasons in France, including one jewelry set for each month that contains a necklace, bracelet, and pair of earrings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark 2015