Harper, Charise Mericle
Summary: The second week of Next Best Junior Chef features family and traditions, as Caroline, Oliver, and Rae, ages eleven to twelve, face more challenges and another elimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HARHarper, Charise Mericle
Summary: The finalists face surprises as they find their culinary knowledge, ingenuity, and friendship tested in the final week of competition that will determine who earns the title of Next Best Junior Chef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HARHarper, Charise Mericle
Summary: Follows Tate, Rae, Caroline, and Oliver, ages nine to eleven, both on and off-camera as they compete in a televised cooking competition. Includes cooking tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: While on a field trip to the museum, Dexter Drabner, the skateboarding-hero-spy, searches for Pharaoh Hun-Ga-Re's greatest treasure after a cat burgler steals it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COOVan Dyken, Rachel
Summary: "What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin? TV reporter Char Lynn wishes she knew. Jake Titus is too rich, too handsome, too arrogant: a trifecta that once lured Char into the best night-and worst morning-after-of her life. Now they've been thrown together in a wedding party. It's awkward, but survivable . . . until Jake stops acting like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANGilman, Laura Anne
Summary: "In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory. Isobel is the left hand of the old man of the Territory, the Boss--better known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley Monahan is mistaken for one of the robbers. With a price on his head and every lawman in the territory hot on his trail, Dooley has no choice but to join up with the murderous outlaws"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSmiley, Jess Smart
Summary: "In the second volume of the What Happens Next? graphic novel series, YOU decide whether Sunbright Middle School's science fair is a success-- or if it all goes up in flames! Megan Hathaway came to Sunbright Middle School's Science and Invention Fair expecting to have fun--she and her friend Charlotte had prepared a presentation on crow calls, and their table gave her a great view of her crush,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMIBrendan, Maggie
Summary: Juliana is drawn to a handsome, gentle sheepherder--but sparks fly when he considers mining, the occupation that lured her father away from his family. Both Josh and Juliana must make a choice--the world's riches and promises, or the eternal value of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRESummary: From Mexican landowners in California to Native American tribes in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this film examines various perspectives on territorial claims to the West and the history of U.S. annexation. This program explains how events, such as the Texas War of Independence, opened the door to U.S. annexation. Diary excerpts, letters, and other primary resources vividly portray the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This program explains how the transcontinental railroad was built, and then how it opened up the West to European settlers and brought on the extermination of the buffalo and the defeat of Southern Plains Indian tribes. Viewers will witness the transformation through first-person accounts from Native Americans, European immigrants, Chinese laborers, buffalo hunters, homesteaders from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Cala, Caroline
Summary: "When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALSummary: Through first-hand accounts, viewers relive the rush for gold and other opportunities in the West and witness the effect of westward migrations on Native Americans. This program explores the adventures of the ’49ers on the overland trails and witness the prosperity of the gold rush towns like San Francisco, as well as broken treaties with the Plains Indians and the slaughter of Native American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Van Dyken, Rachel
Summary: Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname… until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night. The biggest problem? She can't seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she’s pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. And what should have been a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rachel Van Dyken Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West. Included in this program are balanced, up-to-date portrayals of many of the most memorable characters from America's past, including George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Brigham Young, and Chief Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Newton, Michael
Summary: Orrin Porter Rockwell is more than just a deputy United States marshal and a deadly gunfighter. He's a member of the Mormon Danites, the group of enforcers known as the Avenging Angels, and he's the personal troubleshooter for Governor Brigham Young. And when Young sends Rockwell to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Tartarus, there'll be plenty of trouble for him to shoot. A group of Mormon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: Tired of being the middle sister, eleven-year-old Addie Asante uses a magical bracelet to switch places with her thirteen-year-old sister and discovers that being older is not necessarily easier--and worse, her baby sister is now living as Addie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYBisson, Terry.
Summary: When Boba Fett finds himself an orphan at age ten, he becomes a bounty hunter in order to survive alone, but the Jedi and Count Dooku have other plans for his young life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J SWbf 2Summary: Many Americans who set out to change the West found the West changed them instead. This program explores a broad panorama of western experiences: those of Great Plains homesteaders and farmers, Chinese immigrants and Hispanic townspeople in California, Mormons in Utah, Buffalo Bill Cody, cowboys during the fall of the great ranching boom, African-American sharecroppers seeking a “promised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Experience the rich cultural diversity of Native American tribes and the impact that early white explorers had on their lives. In this program, viewers will learn about the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi culture and the successful Pueblo revolt against their Spanish conquerors. First-person accounts bring to life the adventures of early explorers, from Cabeza de Vaca, the first white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Drama revolves around the President, Josiah Bartlet, and his staff at the White House, including his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, and recovering boozehound Leo McGarry who sacrifices his marriage to his career. Among the global crises Bartlet faces are a nuclear showdown between India and Pakistan, an American plane...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESNewton, A. I.
Summary: Harris and Roxy try to help Zeke the alien over his confusion about Valentine's Day, and to figure out who sent him an anonymous candy-gram.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee 2018