Hopson, Nasug̊raq Rainey
Summary: "Winter approaches, and there's much to do if Piŋa's family wants to be prepared: hunting, fishing, gathering, and more. Now, Piŋa must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping - the same mountain where his two older brothers disappeared. As he leaves, Piŋa reassures his parents that he will not succumb to the same fate as his brothers. He will return. But when he reaches the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC HOPSummary: The Muppets tasted success with a college musical, and are now ready for Broadway to experience their talent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPSummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RESSummary: Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANNPolson, Shannon.
Summary: When Shannon Huffman Polson's parents are killed by a wild grizzly bear in Alaska's Arctic, her quest for healing is recounted with heartbreaking candor in North of Hope, as she retraces her parents' final days along an Arctic river searching for her own sense of peace and meaning in the journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013
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Summary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRSRainey, Stephen Mark.
Summary: The town of Silver Ridge, West Virginia, has disappeared from the face of the earth. To the outside world, a chasm of impenetrable mist is all that remains of the town. But inside Silver Ridge, the nightmare is just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Rainer, Thomas
Summary: An "alternative to traditional horticulture: designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, two leading voices in ecological landscape design, reveal how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 RAIHobson, Brandon
Summary: "Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GREHutson, Don
Summary: By the co-author of the #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller "The One Minute Entrepreneur". Offers a simple, straightforward, and proven approach to negotiating anything. Written in the popular and accessible "business fable" format. Negotiation impacts every aspect of our lives, from the deals we strike on the job to our relationships with family members and neighbors, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2010
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Hosoi, Christian.
Summary: A mix of Tony Hawk and Brian Welch comes together in skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi, who reveals everything about his rise, fall, and redemption, in this amazing tell-all—from being named the greatest skater of all time to bottoming out on drugs to finally finding redemption through God. Fans of Slater Kelly's Pipe Dreams and Brian Welch's Save Me From Myself , and followers of Tony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Gipson, Fred
Summary: When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2001
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Summary: "A colors book with no colors? Instead, die-cuts to peek through and find them yourself. This introduction to colors integrates the reader's surroundings into carefully considered die-cut silhouettes, providing children the space to visually experiment. Readers will gaze around the room through a rooster-shaped hole in search of something red, through a sun-shaped hole for something yellow,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SHOBaines, Rebecca.
Summary: The Earth is just one of many planets in our solar system. Why is this the perfect place for us to live? Which are the "gas planets?" And why have we changed what we think of Pluto? Then Zigzag into other questions: what does Earth look like from space? Will I ever live on Mars? What experiment can I do to swing a planet into orbit?
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.2 BAIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIRonson, Jon.
Summary: In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Telgemeier, Raina.
Summary: Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. But when something terrible happens to their grandmother, the two sisters discover they''re more alike than they originally had thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BABHouston, Cissy.
Summary: The definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death -- complete with never-before-seen photographs -- from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston. Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney's heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Houston, Whitney
Summary: An in-depth look into the life and career of Whitney Houston, featuring never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive demo recordings, rare performances, interviews, and audio archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018