Summary: The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker"--Is at work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Quetico Foundation by University of Toronto Press 1962
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Place a hold to request this item.Sanders, Ella Frances.
Summary: "An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 SANLiungman, Carl G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1991
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 302.2223 LIUSummary: Written language is arguably humankind's most important invention. This delightfully accessible documentary uses maps, tables, artifacts, and copious examples to trace the progression of communication through its six stages: gestures, picture writing, pictograms, ideograms, phonograms, and acrophonic characters. Through detailed narration, the program explores topics such as the function of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Curtis, Jamie Lee
Summary: Helping kids celebrate milestones and holidays throughout the year, this hilarious book channels childhood exuberance and explains why waiting can be wonderful - and why it can be worth it!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CURHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kami Cooper is already an accomplished rider, but when she joins the Stardust stunt-riding stables in Colorado, she discovers she still has a lot to learn--and being a stunt double is not all glamour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMHirsch, Paul
Summary: This book "provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor... Hirsch breaks down his career movie by movie, offering a riveting look at the decisions that went into creating some of cinema's most iconic scenes. He also provides behind-the-scenes insight into casting, directing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRSCH, PAUL HIRSantat, Dan
Summary: "A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discovers time moves faster or slower depending on how bored he is"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016