Morrow, Lee Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 792.079 MORGraber, Alan L. (Alan Lee)
Summary: Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for twenty-five years. The people who describe their experiences with diabetes range from teenagers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 616.4 GRASummary: The very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and George (Pa Grape), who lacks self-confidence, are three lazy misfits who dream of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems, this dream might not come true. But, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century. They begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. Along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Veggietales 2008Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron. It was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents. However, it is his destiny to travel to the dwarflands in the east, to help slay the dragon Smaug. His quest takes him through enchanted forests, spiders' lairs, and under the Misty Mountains, where he comes across the vile Gollum, and tricks him out of his 'Precious' - a ring that makes its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: The battle for Middle Earth intensifies as Frodo and Sam travel to Mordor with Gollum, and the other members of the Fellowship fight the machinations of Saruman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton, Mifflin 2001
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the third and concluding part of The lord of the rings trilogy, Aragorn joins with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard and takes part in the victory of the Hornburg; Merry and Pippin escape from the Orcs and flee into Fangorn Forest, encountering the Ents; Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evil wizard Saruman; Sam and Frodo progress toward Mordor to destroy the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOLSutcliff, Rosemary.
Summary: Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 883.01 SUTTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: "In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Frodo the hobbit sets out with a band of warriors from all the kingdoms to destroy the Ring of Power before the evil Sauron can grasp control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: A history of the compass describes its pivotal role in early shipping, relating how its development over the course of hundreds of years was marked by thousands of shipwrecks and the disastrous fates of sailors who misused it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 912.028 GURSummary: Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Iron 2010Summary: An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOTBrubeck, Dave.
Contents: Like someone in love (6:21) -- In your own sweet way (7:39) -- All the things you are (7:27) -- Jimmy Van Heusen medley. Deep in a dream (2:40) ; Like someone in love (4:50) -- Here's that rainy day (4:28) ; Polka dots and moonbeams (3:59) ; It could happen to you (4:56) -- Don't get around much anymore (2:46).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Jazz 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRULagercrantz, David
Summary: Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGSummary: Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit, a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet; delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus and runaway bride Carrie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Smokey 2017Lee, Elan
Summary: It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the games; unless that player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move,...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: YA Game Exploding KittensSilva, Alen.
Summary: "Basque-born photographer Alen Silva has travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture. He brought back these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins--of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Arts & Open Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SilvaLee, Elan
Summary: It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game; unless that player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ad Magic 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATScott, Alev
Summary: "An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East."--Amazon.com summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 SCOŠteger, Aleš.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 STEAlene, Catherine
Summary: In an effort to get over her mother's death and the jealousy she feels for the new girl at school, Raesha concentrates on losing weight to make her performance at the upcoming high school rodeo competition the best it can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017