Kerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
Summary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Zim, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer)
Summary: An illustrated guide to the identification of 129 common birds in the United States and southern Canada, describing their physical characteristics and habitats. Includes a table listing migration dates and nesting and feeding habits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Merberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Georges Seurat, rhyming text describes a variety of activities that fill one day, beginning at the shore and ending with a night at the circus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
Summary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Giant 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: A scientist who has discovered how to make his body invisible, becomes violently insane when he realizes he cannot change back to visible form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Contents: The time machine.--The island of Dr. Moreau.--The invisible man.--The war of the worlds.--The first men in the moon.--The food of the gods.--In the days of the comet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books : distributed by Crown Publishers 1978
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the heir to his fortune.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1984
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2001