Summary: The Doctor takes Ace back to her hometown of Perivale, only to find that something is very, very wrong. Many of Ace's old friends and neighbors have disappeared while domestic pets become victims of unseen kiillers. Will the hunter become the hunted when only the fittest survive? A race of galactic hunters called the Cheetah People have found a way to transport themselves to Earth-- and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HALMunroe, Randall
Summary: The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: OVS 500 MUNMunroe, Enid.
Summary: A guide to gardening with advice on growing perennials, herbs, vines, ground covers, shrubs, and annuals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 MunroWalter, Ashlea
Summary: The Up North Alphabet is a literary journey of the ABCs through iconic northern Michigan natural things and places that are unique in this very special place we adore both as residents and vacationers from all over the world. From A is for alewife to P is for Petoskey stone and S is for Sleeping Bear, this journey will sure to delight the young and young at heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pinkie Finger Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALCosta, Ashly
Summary: Presents four ballroom dances as a cardio workout to shed pounds and tone the body.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.715 DANMunroe, Randall
Summary: Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 500 MUNMunroe, Randall
Summary: "Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 MUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 500 MUNAshey, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 ASHMonson, Marianne
Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MONVance, Ashlee
Summary: An authorized portrait of one of Silicon Valley's most dynamic entrepreneurs evaluates his role in the successes of such innovations as Tesla and Space X while evaluating America's technological competitiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MUSVance, Ashlee
Summary: "With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.43 VANMunroe, Alexandra.
Summary: "This illustrated book is the first full survey of the artist's career to include work in all media, including film and music. An introductory essay by Alexandra Munroe explores Ono's life, her relationship to international avant-garde movements in America and Japan, and the aspects of her art and thought that have guided her prolific production over four decades. Jon Hendrick's study of Ono...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Japan Society 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 700.92 MUNMunroe, Randall
Summary: "For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. [This book] is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole." -- From book jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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Summary: "The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 MUNAshbery, John
Summary: Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery’s diverse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ASHAsprey, Dave
Summary: "From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower--in two weeks or less. For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover the latest, most innovative methods for making humans perform better--a process known as "biohacking."...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 ASPMasley, Steven.
Summary: " Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprit: glucose levels. With today's overweight population adn dramatic increase in Type II Diabetes, studies now show that sugar, not fat, does most of the heart damage. Plague reducing statins used to lower high cholesterol treat...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.12 MASAsprey, Dave.
Summary: "In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hacking techniques...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 ASPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 ASPInman, Tammy Donroe
Summary: A selection of end-of-year desserts encourages the use of fresh, local ingredients and includes such rustic favorites as pear cranberry clafouti, tangelo sorbet and spicy prune cake with penuche frosting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 INMLasley, Tabitha
Summary: "A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LASLEY, TABITHA LASMcEnroe, John
Summary: The author describes his rise to success in the world of professional tennis, his controversial on-court behavior, his marriages to actress Tatum O'Neal and pop star Patty Smyth, and his current roles as father, tennis player, and TV commentator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 MCECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MCEAsprey, Dave
Summary: The "Bulletproof Radio" podcaster outlines proven techniques for promoting personal happiness, health, and success in accordance with the examples of today's game changers, from David Perlmutter to Arianna Huffington.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ASPMontie, Don.
Summary: No one knew about the journals. Everyon had their own idea why the plant closed: was it theft, management, union, or politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Textstream 0000