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Summary: An unauthorized family portrait documents the private lives of the Johnson empire, discussing their high-profile affairs, their struggles with addiction and mental illness, and the obsessions of a dynasty ruler who abandoned his family in favor of his ideals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.7 OPPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OPPSummary: Errol Flynn's farewell to big-budget swashbuckling has him playing the legenday Don Juan, the Spanish lover who fights to save the Queen Margaret and her King from the treacherous machinations of her minister, Duke de Lorca.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OPPSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Count Dracula transforms Shaggy into a fuzz-faced werewolf and there's only one way he will change him back. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must win a creepy cross-country race against a hot-rodding horde of sinister celebrity monsters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Manhattan melodrama: Two brothers, orphaned by a steamship disaster, grow up on different sides of the law. Evelyn Prentice: A woman, hurt by the inattention of her lawyer husband, begins a flirtation of her own, with disastrous consequences. Double wedding: A romantic comedy featuring Powell as a Bohemian artist who becomes involved with a would-be actress and her uptight, domineering sister....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYRBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIROppenheimer, Mark
Summary: "Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multi-generational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshiping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 OPPOppenheimer, Stephen.
Summary: Argues that all modern non-Africans can be traced back to a single exodus from Africa, when one migrant group of a few hundred people were forced from their homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, more than 80,000 years ago, and today all non-Africans can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from this group.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.9 OPPDeary, Terry
Summary: "Want to know: Why the vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? Which Viking god dressed up as a woman? A genuine jester's joke? Why medieval chickens had their bottoms shaved? Discover all the facts about the Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages--double the gore and more"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 DEASummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVJeezy
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SORSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Summary: This collection contains step-by-step, illustrated instructions for thirty patterns including a laundry bag, apron, tool roll, bucket caddy, hammock, and so much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.2 OPPOppenheimer, Clive
Summary: "Volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer offers here a seemingly impossible tour, showing readers places difficult to access, even before one considers climbing a volcano. Oppenheimer worked closely with North Korean researchers in a scientific mission to study Mount Paektu, a volcano name sung in national anthems on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. He ventured through Chad to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 OPPSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOSKosinski, Jerzy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seaver Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOSWhiteford, Merry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHINielsen, Jerri.
Summary: A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes or boats and the only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSEN, JERRI NIEOppenheim, Joanne.
Summary: While singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in the bathtub, a boy becomes the skipper of several imaginary vessels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers 1993
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN OPPChisholm, Jerri
Summary: "My name is Eve Hamilton. Everyone in Compound Eleven thinks I was killed. But they{u2019}re dead wrong{u2026} I spent my entire life in Compound Eleven as a fighter. Surviving in an underground city filled with violence, oppression, and tyranny. We were told the world above was scorched, an immediate death sentence. I should have died never knowing the truth. Instead, when I fought...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Publishing 2023