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Summary: How did Ford Motors use Lean Development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 658.5 MORSummary: 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 RSummary: Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRSummary: As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RSummary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRI RATED PG-13Stoeke, Janet Morgan.
Summary: Out for an early morning walk, a chicken wanders into a school that she mistakes for a fancy barn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STOSummary: Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PER RATED PGSummary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016
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Stoeke, Janet Morgan.
Summary: Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket STOStoeke, Janet Morgan
Summary: The children walk down the hall in a nice straight line with big grins on their faces on library day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton's Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC StoDiamond, Jared M.
Summary: "In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 DIASummary: Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CONDiamond, Jared M.
Summary: Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.89 DIALogan, T. M.
Summary: "Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife's car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend's husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOGContents: Impulse (6:01) -- Bifu (4:58) -- When A Tiger Meets A Rosa Rugosa (5:30) -- light moving (2:55) -- Solitude d'automne (4:12) -- Blue Fiddle (4:53) -- Third Sigh (3:23) -- Memory Games (5:01) -- Farewell (5:01) -- Ford's Farm (3:19) -- Whispering (2:48) -- Torua (4:13) -- shade (4:21) -- Echo Dash (2:17) -- Coming To (3:16) -- The Angry Birds of Kauai (4:01) -- Hilary's Hoedown (2:01) -- Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DG 2013
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Summary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANLondon, Martha
Summary: People have been adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. as the amount of gases increases, climate change grows worse. How Climate Change Works examines the science behind climate change, explaining how climate change began and how changes in the atmosphere lead to changes on Earth. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.738 LONSummary: Anastasia has broken off her relationship with the troubled Christian to pursue a new career in a Seattle publishing house. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIF RATED RBaldwin, Alec
Summary: Follows the story of John DeLorean through the creation of his company and car to his downfall through drug trafficking and friendship with an FBI informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRASaul, Jamie M.
Summary: Light of Day is a powerful and illuminating novel about love, loss, and the unforeseeable darkness that lurks around the corners of everyday life. Respected professor Jack Owens brought his son, Danny, to Gilbert, Indiana, to escape a betrayal too painful to endure anywhere but in this quiet midwestern college town. After ten years, Jack believed they were safe. But on a seemingly ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: Includes seven original Christmas classics, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; Frosty the Snowman; and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORITabor, James M.
Summary: In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, a brilliant and beautiful scientist and a mysterious special ops soldier must lead a team deep into the Earth on a desperate hunt for the cure to a deadly epidemic. When she was unjustly fired from a clandestine government laboratory, microbiologist Hallie Leland swore she would never look back. But she can't ignore an urgent summons from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Fallows, James M.
Summary: "A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018