Summary: "When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again. The Doctor and his friends decide to put a stop to their rule but in doing so, inadvertently unleash the true power and terror of the Krotons instead ..."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIPreston, Richard
Summary: The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PREPreston, Richard
Summary: Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees. 96% of the ancient redwood forests have been logged, but the fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 585.5097 PREPreston, Richard
Summary: One spring morning in New York City, a seventeen-year-old girl wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later, she is having violent seizures and has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. She is soon dead. When other gruesome deaths of a similar nature are discovered, the CDC sends a pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PREPreston, Richard
Summary: Dramatic true stories about the frightening forces and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.024 PREPreston, Richard
Summary: Famous for immersing himself in his subjects, Preston turns his considerable writing talents to the fascinating study of wild tree canopies. To research this book, Preston learned how to climb giant trees, camped out in them, and interviewed countless forestry experts to offer listeners an in-depth examination of how and why these giant trees should be preserved.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 585.5097 PREPreston, Richard
Summary: A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.57 PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.57 PREPreston, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 522.19 PRESummary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: The soundtrack from the acclaimed Amazon Prime television show features classic tracks from Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, and Frank Sinatra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MARSummary: Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MALSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OContents: Disc 1- Side A. Powder keg (starring Rod Taylor & Dennis Cole, 1971, 93 min.) -- Boot Hill (starring Terence Hill & Bud Spencer, 1969, 97 min.) -- To the last man (starring Randolph Scott, 1941, 70 min.) -- Song of Arizona (starring Roy Rogers, 1946, 68 min.) -- Winds of the wasteland (starring John Wayne & Lane Chandler, 1936, 55 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TGG Direct 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TWESummary: Creature from the Black Lagoon: Members of a scientific expedition to the Amazon discover a gruesome half man/half fish creature. Revenge of the Creature: A monster, half man and half fish, kills two men and abducts a woman ichthyologist after escaping from the tank where it is chained. The creature walks among us: Despite the clear intention of enjoying his watery home deep in the Everglades,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRESummary: A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family To Sir 1999OREGON.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1978
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ OREOREGON.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ORESummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1949, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TENOREGON.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983