Summary: Set in rural Canada during the mid-1950's, The Last Winter is the story of Will, a young boy trying to hold onto his childhood in the face of change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allumination FilmWorks 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LASCurry, Tim
Summary: Dramatization of Shakespeare's rise from humble beginnings in Elizabethan England to fame as a playwright.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, those same monsters have returned and it's up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the last dragon in order to finally stop the Druun for good. However, along her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2021
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAYMurphy, Tim
Summary: In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURSummary: A comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COFContents: Disc one. Pyjamarama (Roxy Music) -- Ma-Ma-Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra) -- Barbecutie (Sparks) -- Joey (single version) (Pretty Things) -- Tumble with me (The Hollywood Brats) -- Rolling with my baby (single version) Silverhead -- Teenage archangel (Be-Bop Deluxe) -- On the ball (Streak) -- Once bitten twice shy (album version) (Ian Hunter) -- Kerb crawler (Hawkwind) -- Payroll (Brutus)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OH!Murphy, Jim
Summary: It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This [book] traces the devastating course of the epidemic. [The book] offers a ... glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 614.541 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAMurphy, Jim
Summary: Describes the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914 and features quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional source material.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.421 MURMurphy, Jim.
Summary: Jim Murphy's careful research puts the listener in the front seat of the Great Blizzard of 1888 - one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history -and provides a clear understanding of why life in the United States was forever changed afterward. Riveting performance by award-winning narrator Taylor Mali.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Bookshelf,LLC 2003
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Murphy, Jim.
Summary: This Newbery Honor Book provides a dramatic and riveting listening experience for all ages as performed by award-winning narrator Taylor Mali. A colossal disaster, the Great Fire of 1871 caused damaged so profound to Chicago that few people believed the city could ever rise again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Bookshelf,LLC 2003
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Murphy, Jim
Summary: Learn how George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River helped save the American revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Murphy, Jim
Summary: By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events.... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again. -Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 977.3 MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.311 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7349 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: Accounts of actual survivors and historical writings are woven together to create a thrilling book about the 1871 Chicago Fire, that reads like an adventure story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: In September 1862, two great armies faced each other across Antietam Creek. The outnumbered Confederate forces were led by General Robert E. Lee. The Union army was led by General George B. McClellan. Jim Murphy uses archival photographs, maps, and firsthand accounts to recreate one of America's most important battles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7336 MURSummary: "With the Army of the Dead--led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon--bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, or course, Cersei...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMSummary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016