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Summary: "HappiNest provides a road map to help parents navigate new paths, evolving relationships and existential challenges when their kids leave home. This book distills the latest research and presents vignettes from interviews with more than 300 experts, including psychologists, sociologists, seasoned empty nesters, and fledglings"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 HOLSummary: 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 RANSummary: The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEARowland, Lucy
Summary: Ned the knight always does exactly what he is told, but when a dragon swoops into town, he decides for the first time to say "no."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROWSummary: The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD THRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRDrasnin, Robert.
Contents: Chant of the moon -- Desiree -- Hindara -- Orinoco -- Warm night wind -- Mirage -- Voodoo -- Jardin de la noche -- Tambuku -- You -- Paradise -- Enchantment.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dionysus Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING DRARowland, Lucy
Summary: When Princess Alice's blankie goes missing, she bravely tracks its journey from a giant to a witch and discovers that it has ended up with a dragon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROWSummary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORIWhelan, Gloria
Summary: When Grandma dies, her five children and their children descend on her farmhouse to divide the possessions in an orderly manner and in hopes of making everyone happy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Bks for Young Readers 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHESummary: "Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, this anti-Western propaganda film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. ... Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROSummary: Long ago in a kingdom where music is outlawed, King Triton's youngest daughter Ariel discovers her love for music in a secret underground music club. Torn with the choice of whether to hide her passion or share it with her father and risk losing everything, Ariel sets off on a daring adventure to restore music to Atlantica.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Little 2008Contents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HEASummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPHolland, Tanya
Summary: Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco. The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 HOLSummary: Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and the dead-end job she has. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Good 2002Summary: An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TULSummary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASContents: Daffy Duck's rhapsody (Mel Blanc) -- Yoda ("Weird Al" Yankovic) -- The elements (Tom Lehrer) -- Deteriorata (National Lampoon) -- Charlie Brown (the Coasters) -- Dungeons and dragons (the Dead Alewives) -- Eskimo (Corky & the Juice Pigs) -- The ballad of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy) -- Kill the wabbit (Ozzy Fudd) -- Stress (Jim's Big Ego) -- On the shoulders of freaks (Henry Phillips) -- Bars...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Jewell, Lisa
Summary: In this sequel to The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001