Latham, Irene
Summary: This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LATPeters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PETSummary: Eddie Murphy entertains with celebrity impersonations and his observations on '80s love, sex, marriage, his remembrance of Mom's hamburgers, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS EDDAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 ACESummary: Organized by subject: everyday phrases, transportation, shopping, hotels, menu guides and pronunication. Includes cd with book.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 458.3 ITAMurtha, Sheila MacKechnie
Summary: Written as a guide for people who already have a basic understanding of English and want to improve their ability to speak it the way it is spoken in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Research & Education Association 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 428.24 MURLeón, Amyra
Summary: The author takes readers on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem. León explores love and loss, melody and bloodshed as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. She invites readers to dream with abandon-- because it is a privilege to dream at all. -- adapted from front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEOThakur, Sophia
Summary: "In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an intimate journey through love, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In four parts -- titled Grow, Wait, Break, and Grow Again -- she shares her raw self and gives voice to experiences that connect people, inspiring readers to explore the tendencies of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 THAKashmere Stage Band
Contents: disc 1. Boss City-- Burning spear-- Take five -- Super bad -- Keep doing it -- Thunder soul -- Do you dig it, man? -- Headwiggle -- Do your thing ; Scorpio ; Thank you (previously unissued extended versions) -- Al's tune -- All praises -- Shaft -- Kashmere -- $$ kash register $$ -- Zero point : parts 1 & 2 (45 version, previously unreleased) -- Getting it out of my system --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KASRaymond, Henry N.
Summary: Audio based teaching. Includes pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Level one focuses on essential travel needs; levels two and three provide more everyday conversation as well as more comprehensive grammar and vocabulary skills. Includes 3 phrase books for each level.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Martin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica)
Summary: "A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Along the foggy and sinister streets of London and the mysterious London countryside, Sherlock Holmes and the good Doctor Watson are called upon to solve the seemingly unsolvable.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stradivari Audio books 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYGorman, Amanda
Summary: Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORLamm, Brad.
Summary: A powerful, ground-breaking book that shows you, in concrete steps, how to stop a loved one from engaging in self destructive behavior.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.29 LAMHendrix, Jimi
Summary: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece Electric Ladyland, Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings present a special Deluxe Edition box set. Spread across 3 CDs and 1 Blu-ray. CD1: the original album, now newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes. CD2: Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes, which presents 20 never...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HENTower of Power (Musical group)
Contents: CD 1. Stroke '75 (2:40) -- Ain't nothing stopping us now (2:36) -- You ought to be having fun (3:21) -- Soul with a capital S (6:07) -- Stop (4:34) -- You're so wonderful, so marvelous (3:06) -- On the serious side (4:17) -- Just when we start makin' it (7:24) -- Soul vaccination (5:04) -- What is hip?/Soul power (9:25) -- Do you like that? (3:36) -- Drop it in the slot (3:12) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TOWSummary: "In a collection of more than 150 original pieces created by members of POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club around the country, high-school students express their sorrow, confusion, anger, bewilderment, hopes, and dreams through poetry, essays, haiku, rap lyrics, drawings, paintings, photos, and collages. They tell stories that reflect different circumstances and experiences, but all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Woods Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 DRESummary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWEContents: CD 1. Watch the Sunrise (featuring Pat Sansone) -- September Gurls (featuring Mike Mills) -- In the Street (featuring Brett Harris and Mike Mills) -- Back of a Car (featuring Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow) -- Thirteen (featuring Skylar Gudasz) -- Give Me Another Chance (featuring Dan Wilson) -- When My Baby's Beside Me (featuring Jeff Tweedy) -- I'm in Love with a Girl (featuring Pat Sansone)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIGHarl, Kenneth W.
Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 1Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 2
Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 3
Rohr, Richard.
Contents: In the beginning is the end, overview of method and message -- God needs images, beyond separateness and shame -- Mutual mirroring, biblical truth as the other -- The stumbling stone, from requirements to relationship -- The paradox of power, all hidden things are made known by their opposites -- Bearing the mystery, knowing and not knowing -- The perennial mistake, beyond vengeance and victims...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Anthony Messenger Press 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.8 ROHTedeschi Trucks Band
Contents: CD 1. Don't know what it means -- Keep on growing -- Bird on the wire -- Within you, without you -- Just as strange -- Crying over you -- These walls -- Anyhow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Castle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023