James, Tania.
Summary: A rice farmer-turned-poacher whose brother has been killed and a documentary filmmaker dedicated to preserving wildlife find their views challenged by the violence of a brutal escaped elephant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Tania.
Summary: "Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMSummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMWilson, Jamia
Summary: "Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint off The Quarto Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.42 WILJoplin, Janis.
Contents: Move over -- Cry baby -- A woman left lonely -- Half moon -- Buried alive in the blues -- My baby -- Me and Bobby McGee -- Mercedes Benz -- Trust me -- Get it while you can.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1980
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOPOwens, Janis
Summary: "A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEWhitlock, Janis
Summary: Parents who discover a teen's self-injurious behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions - Why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing after Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 WHIJacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJanis, Tim
Contents: Come home to me -- The rushing wings of dawn -- High Sierra -- Angelic evening -- The summer sea -- Star Island -- Swept across forever -- Ever I love you -- Beyond the evening star -- Reflections -- Light on the leaves -- Unfolding splendor -- Golden rays of sunlight -- Ocean rose -- The ancient woods -- Twin lights -- Silent pictures.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM JanisJoplin, Janis.
Contents: Piece of my heart / J. Ragovoy, B. Berns --Summertime / D. Heyward, G. Gershwin -- Try (Just a little bit harder) / J. Ragovoy, C. Taylor -- Cry baby / J. Ragovoy, B. Berns -- Me and Bobby McGee / K. Kristofferson, F. Foster -- Down on me / arr. J. Joplin -- Get it while you can / J. Ragovoy, M. Shuman -- Bye, bye baby / P. St. John -- Move over / J. Joplin -- Ball and chain / W.M. Thornton.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM JoplinCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOPForman, Janis
Summary: Storytelling can be a lifelong and life sustaining habit of mind, a personal inheritance that connects us to our communities. It can also serve as an organizational inheritance -- a management tool that helps businesses to develop and thrive. For more than a decade, award-winning author Janis Forman has been helping executives to tell stories in service of their organizational objectives. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FORIan, Janis.
Contents: disc 1. Society's child -- To old to go 'way little girl -- Hair of spun gold -- The tangles of my mind -- I'll give you a stone if you'll throw it -- Pro-girl -- Younger generation blues -- New Christ cardiac hero -- Lover be kindly -- Mrs. McKenzie -- Janey's blues -- Song for all the seasons of your mind -- Honey d'ya think? -- Bahimsa -- Queen Merka & me -- There are times -- Lonely one --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IANJoplin, Janis.
Contents: Disc one. What good can drinkin' do (2:42) -- Trouble in mind (3:04) -- Hesitation blues (4:03) -- Easy rider (2:22) ; Coo coo (2:04) ; Down on me (2:04) ; The last time (2:15) ; All is loneliness (2:18) ; Call on me (3:36) ; Women is losers (5:05) ; Intruder (2:31) ; Light is faster than sound (2:30) ; Bye, bye baby (2:37) ; Farewell song (4:23) ; Flower in the sun (3:11) ; Misery'n (4:07) ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOPJoplin, Janis.
Contents: Combination of the two -- I need a man to love -- Flower in the sun -- Light is faster than sound -- Summertime -- Catch me Daddy -- It's a deal -- Call on me -- Jam - I'm mad (Mad Man Blues) -- Piece of my heart -- Coo coo -- Ball and chain -- Down on me -- [Bonus track]: Call on me / Saturday Show - June 22, 1968.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIGWilson, Jamia
Summary: "Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. Discover how their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILWilson, Jamia
Summary: Young, Gifted and Black Too celebrates the lives of 52 more leaders, heroes, sportspeople, and artists of color from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILSummary: 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 RANJameson, Hanna
Summary: For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JAMJameson, Hanna
Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019