Pierre, D. B. C.
Summary: When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIESummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Lieven, D. C. B.
Summary: In his major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in "War and Peace," Lieven provides an examination of the period from the Russian perspective, demonstrating that Napoleon's defeat in 1812 by the Russian army was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LIELieven, D. C. B.
Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIESummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Summary: "An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Contents: Downhearted blues / Lovie Austin, Alberta Hunter (3:24) -- 'Taint nobody's bizness if I do / Porter Grainger, Robert Prince, Clarence Williams (3:28) -- My sweetie went away / Lou Handman, Roy Turk (3:12) -- Weeping willow blues / Paul Carter (3:10) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (3:11) -- Reckless blues / Jack Gee, Fred Longshaw (3:01) -- You've been a good ole wagon / Stuart Balcom, Bessie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SMIBryan, C. D. B. (Courtlandt Dixon Barnes)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910.6 BRYB MacDonald,D Silverstein C Conrad
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1931
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 WARButler, B. C. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longman Scientific & Technical 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.1551 BUTWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WARUnited States
Summary: The atlas that accompanied the United States War Dept's official history of the Civil War contains 821 maps, 106 engravings, and 209 drawings (including detailed uniform and flag illustrations), the majority of the maps drawn during the war by engineers, draftsmen, and generals for actual military use, with only a few maps, drawn later by cartographers, added for historical purposes.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911.73 OFFF Hamm D Bennett B Lown C Gray
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Irving Berlin 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSalguero, C. Pierce
Summary: "Finally, a balanced and readable introduction to Buddhism for open minded readers who have no interest in professing faith in a new religion or adopting a new ideology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 SALSummary: In a remake of the original 1968 film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers - and humans are little more than slaves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PLAJ.-C. B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 GALSummary: The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INE C Pierce C Jacobs-Bond
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Carrie Jacobs-Bond/Son 1912
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMPerry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)
Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 616.85 PERJohnson, D. B. (Donald B.)
Summary: While all of the other animals on a tumbledown farm wait on Farmer Orvie, a pig, who spends a great deal of time sleeping, an unhappy Duck decides that she would be a better farmer and sets out to convince Orvie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007