Jacoby, Richard
Summary: "What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body--in our feet, organs, and brain--why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body'snerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 JACSummary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF SnSummary: Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and his life, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. His mother tells him he may stay as long as he wants. What begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a house saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMDahl, Roald.
Contents: Taste / read by Richard E. Grant -- Lamb to the slaughter / read by Juliet Stevenson -- Man from the South / read by Stephen Mangan -- The soldier / read by Stephen Mangan -- My lady love, my daove / read by Richard Griffiths -- Dip in the pool / read by Adrian Scarborough -- Galloping Foxley / read by Richard Griffiths -- Skin / read by Tamsin Greig -- Poison / read by Richard E. Grant -- The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAHSummary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCMitchell, Joni.
Contents: Happy birthday 1975 (rap) -- God must be a boogie man -- Funeral (rap) -- A chair in the sky -- The wolf that lives in Lindsey -- I's a muggin' (rap) -- Sweet sucker dance -- Coin in the pocket (rap) -- The dry cleaner from Des Moines -- Lucky (rap) -- Goodbye pork pie hat.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Asylum 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITSummary: "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 WELSummary: "RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RFKSummary: Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of their celebrated hosts (Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant) to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHASummary: A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR UNDJacoby, Karl
Summary: Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 JACJacoby, Susan
Summary: During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as a public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.7092 JACSummary: Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIASummary: In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending gloom surrounding Hitlers' Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GATSummary: The general who became a slave -- the slave who became a gladiator -- the gladiator who defied an empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2000
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Gladiator 2000Summary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVJacoby, Jenny
Summary: Text and illustrations presents a collection of facts about engineering.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 620 JACBallard, Jacoby
Summary: "Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 BALJacoby, Susan
Summary: Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 JACSummary: Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Relativity Media LLC 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Jacoby, Sarah
Summary: A scruffy stray dog follows a girl home, promising to stay by her side and be her loyal friend and companion for as long as she needs him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JACSummary: After Monica finally proposes to her boyfriend Shane, the two are too busy planning their wedding to notice a pair of bumbling thieves planning to burglarize the entire neighborhood on the wedding day! Monica's two kids, their beloved family pup Houdini, and the rest of the neighborhood puppy pals must devise a plan to stop the robbers and save the neighborhood!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015