Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Summary: A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTGroening, Matt
Summary: Bart Simpson is back with another big book dedicated exclusively to that rabble-rousing, misbehaving menace-Springfield's favourite son, Homer's only son, and TV's favourite son-Bart Simpson! Following the great success of Big Book of Bart Simpson, Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson-the third comic book compilation in a series dedicated exclusively to Bart Simpson. Join Bart Simpson and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GROContents: Time intro / Hot Natured -- La Ritournelle / Sebastien Tellier -- Don't appear / James Teej -- Is this something / Coat of Arms -- DePalma / White Lions -- You can't touch me / Karen Pollack -- God sent / Cajmere -- Madame Hollywood / Felix da Housecat -- Body shiver / Waifs & Strays -- Amoureux solitaires / Jennygoesdirty -- Assimilation / Hot Natured -- Open for service / Crazy P -- Goblin...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fabric Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JONSummary: Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SANRobards, Karen.
Summary: With one sweet, seductive kiss, Megan Kinkead is no longer the impudent child Justin Brant remembers. She was a girl when she left for school, but she has returned a woman, body and soul. Once Megan's guardian, Justin, the sixth Earl of Weston, is soon her heart's obsession. Desire smolders between them, and then he tells her he is married. Set against the lush green hills of Ireland, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBSummary: Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss to her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Films 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUAZim, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer)
Summary: An illustrated guide to the identification of 129 common birds in the United States and southern Canada, describing their physical characteristics and habitats. Includes a table listing migration dates and nesting and feeding habits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Paris after dark / Jordan Summers -- Coven of mercy / Deborah Cooke -- Le cirque de la Nuit / Karen MacInerney -- Perdition / Caitlin Kittredge -- Deliver us from evil / Dina James -- Blood and thyme / Camile Bacon-Smith -- Into the mist for ever / Rosemary Laurey -- Blood feud / Patti O'Shea -- Love bites / Angie Fox -- Flotsam / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The murder king's woman / Jamie Leigh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAMSummary: Paul is a lone drifter who wanders into the forgotten town of Denton, Texas, dubbed by the locals as the valley of violence. There, he picks a fight with the wrong man, Gilly, the troublemaking son of the town's unforgiving marshal. As tensions arise between Paul and Gilly, an inevitable act of violence starts a disastrous chain reaction that quickly drags the whole town into the bloody...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSummary: Parenting is no joke! In this light-hearted family film, one dad shakes off a mid-life crisis and reconnects with his family, with his Bible in one hand and his phone in the other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Goes behind the scenes at the National Ballet of Canada to witness the creation, from early rehearsals to peformance, of choreographer James Kudelka's ballet The actress, featuring dancer Karen Kain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: View Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAKFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FoxVideo 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SANCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SANCall number: DVD Sa
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAN RATED PGCatchpole, James
Summary: Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber Limited 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATSummary: A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This film follows 6 students from Lincoln Alternative High School in Walla Walla, Washington. The principal and teachers embraced a non-punitive, trauma-informed model of teaching and discipline in order to counteract the chaos and violence present in the school. Using the ACE's model in the classroom helped the students understand their negative emotions and create an atmosphere for success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAPKamen, Michael.
Contents: Main theme -- Band of brothers suite one -- Band of brothers suite two -- The mission begins -- Swamp -- Spiers' speech -- Fire on lake -- Parapluie -- Boy eats chocolate -- Bull's theme -- Winters on subway -- Headscare -- Buck in hospital -- Plaisir d'amour -- Preparing for patrol -- String quartet in C-sharp minor (opus 131) / by Beethoven -- Discovery of the camp -- Nixon's walk -- Austria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BANTerrell, Jaden
Summary: Nashville P.I. Jared McKean has a weakness for women in jeopardy, until one frames him for murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERHair, Jaden.
Summary: Collects authentic, easy-to-prepare recipes focusing on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai cuisine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 HAITerrell, Jaden
Summary: "At thirty-six, private detective Jared McKean is coming to terms with his unjust dismissal from the Nashville Murder Squad and an unwanted divorce from a woman he still loves. Jared is a natural horseman and horse rescuer whose son has Down Syndrome, whose best friend is dying of AIDS, and whose teenage nephew, Josh, has fallen under the influence of a dangerous fringe of the Goth subculture....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERTerrell, Jaden
Summary: When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERNgonda, Jalen
Contents: Come around and love me -- If you don't want my love -- Lost -- That's all I wanted from you -- Please show me -- Just like you used to -- What a difference she made -- Give me another day -- So glad I found you -- It takes a fool -- Rapture.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Rose, Jalen
Summary: No topic is off limits as Rose discusses growing up in Detroit in the 70s and 80s.; being the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan; and his 13-year NBA career. And certainly not as a commentator and analyst on ABC/ESPN and Grantland. His colorful collection of stories and opinions about basketball and life gives people the kind of insight and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2015