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Foss, Ben. Gershwin, George Jen, Gish Jen, Gish. Kiss. Lil Miss Hot Mess Mims, Ben Skeslien Charles, JanetContents: Sleepwalking / John Henry Memorial -- Times Two / Andrew Kaffer -- Marco Polo / Watery Graves of Portland -- I love a computer / Yacht Anarcortes Mixx -- Ramblin' / Little Wings -- Harbinger of toppling metropoli / Manta -- Spear for when the bear comes / Drakkar Sauna -- It's not the hunting / Mount Eerie -- Norm / Miss En Abyme -- Growing up / Thanksgiving -- As a metaphor / Or -- I will bend...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Marriage Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: "The air fryer is the newest must-have kitchen appliance and it's easy to see why: fried foods come out perfectly crispy and crunchy, using little to no oil, and at a fraction of the calories -- all ready in less time and with less mess. With the air fryer's versatility, whether you're frying, baking, or roasting, you may never turn your oven on again!" -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.7 MIMSummary: Includes seven original Christmas classics, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; Frosty the Snowman; and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORISummary: Five young, ambitious cops, fresh out of the Academy, are plunged into the world of big-city policing on their very first day on the job, a world where even the smallest mistake can have life-or-death consequences, coupled with some serious emotional fallout. These rookies are about to learn that no amount of training can prepare them for life on the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOFoss, Ben.
Summary: "Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing--and what you can do so that he or she can thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic--a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a "learning disability" or "learning difference," that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618 FOSSummary: Strives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 ADDContents: disc 1. Glorify Him / Darwin Hobbs -- Do you know Him (Trendsetters mix) / Marvin Sapp -- No way / Tye Tribbett & G.A. -- Let go (The Godson concept) / Kierra "KiKi" Sheard -- Set me free / Myron Butler & Levi -- Gonna lift your name / Anointed -- God didn't give up / Deitrick Haddon -- Save me / Mary Mary -- Purified / CeCe Winans -- I will find a way / Fred Hammond -- God is able / Smokie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verity/Word/Zomba Label Group 2005
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWCall number: CD RELIGIOUS Wow
Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHOContents: Disc one. Forlani (Burnt by the Sun) (2:39) -- Where strides the behemoth (Mastodon) (2:53) -- Sculpt the lives (Burst) (3:16) -- Execration text (Nile) (2:46) -- And just go (Dysrhythmia) (6:08) -- 43% burnt (Dillinger Escape Plan) (3:43) -- Scrape (Unsane) (3:12) -- From sacrifice to survival (Skinless) (4:00) -- Razor hoof (High on Fire) (3:26) -- The matter of splatter (Exhumed) (3:41) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Relapse Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CONJen, Gish
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jen 2020Jen, Gish.
Summary: Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for Blondie is relentless--so much so that she introduces a Chinese woman named Lan to the household. When Lilly and Wendy begin to favor Lan over their white mother, Blondie clings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENLil Miss Hot Mess
Summary: "The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to "work it". The story plays off "The Wheels on the Bus" as it follows a drag queen who performs...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILLil Miss Hot Mess
Summary: Drag queens sing verses of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their fabulousness by singing, posing, and twirling along.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILKiss.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simstan Music 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KisJen, Gish
Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Contents: Who's Irish? -- Birthmates -- The water faucet vision -- Duncan in China -- Just wait -- Chin -- In the American society -- House, house, home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Summary: Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: "It was like having twins...She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium." But two years later, it's time...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Summary: An autobiographical film based on the director's life beginning in 1942 during Hitler's struggle to wrest Egypt, especially the city Alexandria, from the British Army. Yehia, an aspiring actor, and his friends experience the impact of war. Yehia studies cinema in Alexandria, stages his first makeshift productions, and finally reaches the conclusion that his future lies in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALESkeslien Charles, Janet
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear--including...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021