House, Karen Elliott.
Summary: A journalist draws on three decades of firsthand experience to profile contemporary Saudi Arabia, offering insight into its leaders, citizens, cultural complexities, and international prospects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953.8 HOUJahren, Hope
Summary: "Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.738 JAHHesse, Karen
Summary: A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SCHOH 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESHesse, Karen
Summary: A loving grandmother and her grandchild enjoy an adventure by the sea and stop to have tea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESHesse, Karen.
Summary: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESHesse, Karen.
Summary: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESHesse, Karen.
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESHesse, Karen.
Summary: A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2000
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Summary: "A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.738 JAHJahren, Hope.
Summary: "An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world,"--Amazon.com. Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAHREN, HOPE JAHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JAHREN JAHHorst, Arend Jan van der.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 HorstDjam Karet (Musical group)
Contents: No man's land 4:43. -- Eclipse of faith 2:43. -- Web of Medea 7:04. -- Demon train 2:56. -- All clear 8:31. -- Raising Orpheus 6:56. -- Kali's indifference 2:28. -- Alone with the river man 8:03. -- Going home 9:55. -- Eulogy 2:13.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cuneiform Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DjamHome & Garden Television
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 BEFSummary: The first feature-length appreciation of Eva Hesse's life and work, makes superb use of the artist's voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and archival interviews with fellow artists who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVASummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSmith, Karen A. (Karen Ann)
Summary: A guide for parents of children with sensory processing difficulties cites a link between sensory processing problems and childhood psychiatric disorders, sharing information on how to recognize and treat sensory-related conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperResource 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HELPlain, Belva.
Summary: Septuagenarian Iris Stern questions her beliefs about what it means to be a woman and a wife when her daughter's marriage crumbles, an event that is complicated by the revelation of a dark family secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PLASummary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HITSummary: 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.Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Nicknamed by their grandmother, "Smiling Fish" Tony is an actor with a freewheeling spirit, while "Goat on Fire" Chris is a starchy buttoned-down accountant. Both are in seemingly perfect relationships, that is until they fall in love with women who are wildly different than themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2001