Pioli, Catherine
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author's life and experiences as a leukemia patient"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIOLI, CATHERINE PIOWendel, Tim
Summary: "When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author’s daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92Brown, Robert K.
Summary: This memoir is funny and angry and hopeful and sad and realistic. A coming-of-age story with cancer, set mostly in Seattle of the early nineties, it does not pretend that the path to lasting health comes easily or that a sunny disposition is all you need for everything to work out. It is about much more than just beating cancer: tackling adversity through patience and perseverance, stumbling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3/3 Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, ROBERT K. BROBell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Vivaldi, Antonio
Contents: Concerto for violoncello, strings and basso continuo in A minor, RV 418 -- Concerto for strings and basso continuo in C major, RV 117 -- Concerto for strings and basso continuo in F minor, RV 143 -- Concerto for violin, violoncello, strings and basso continuo in B-flat major, RV 547 -- Concerto for 2 violins, 2 violoncelli, strings and basso continuo in G major, RV 575 -- Concerto for 4...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VIVSkloot, Rebecca
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 SKLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LACKS SKLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Black SklootSkloot, Rebecca
Summary: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LACKS, HENRIETTA SKLContents: Wherever I go (3:23) -- Bad guy (2:36) -- Sweet child o'mine (4:03) -- Halo (4:22) -- Shallow (3:31) -- Demons (3:49) -- I don't care (3:37) -- Cryin' (3:49) -- Livin' on a prayer (4:14) -- The sound of silence (2:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TWOBell, Cece
Summary: The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JB BELL BELPiazzolla, Astor
Summary: The enhanced (multimedia) portion contains videos and interviews with Yo-Yo Ma.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Morricone, Ennio.
Contents: The mission. Gabriel's oboe (3:11) ; The falls (2:27) -- Giuseppe Tornatore suite. The legend of 1900. Playing love (1:49) ; Cinema paradiso. Nostalgia (1:58) ; Looking for you (1:43) ; Malena. Main theme (4:22) ; A pure formality. Main theme (3:49) -- Sergio Leone suite. Once upon a time in America. Deborah's theme (3:32) ; Cockeye's song (2:13) ; Main theme (1:49) ; Once upon a time in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Masterworks 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MADevlin, Calla
Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Devlin 2016Summary: After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north of the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RETKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORNovak, Ali
Summary: When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NOVSummary: After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPContents: Quartet, K. 285 in D (14:46) -- Quartet, K. 285a in G (9:43) -- Quartet, K. 285b in C [K. Anh. 171] (16:54) -- Quartet, K. 298 in A (11:56) -- Quartet, K. 370 in F (14:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MOZKnights (Musical group : New York, N.Y.)
Contents: Ascending bird / Siamak Aghaei & Colin Jacobsen (6:58) -- Rusalka. Song to the moon / Antonín Dvořák ; arranged Jesse Diener-Bennett (5:24) -- Azul / Osvaldo Golijov (28:17) -- Tierkreis. Leo / Karlheinz Stockhausen ; arranged Caroline Shaw (3:27) -- Run rabbit run. Suite / Sufjan Stevens ; arranged Michael P. Atkinson (14:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Classics 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KNICussler, Clive
Summary: When NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds a document inside an antiquated submersible left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell, it reopens a mystery involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction CusYankovic, Al
Summary: An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YANAnders, Mason
Summary: Animals Cells takes you inside the smallest unit of life. Learn how each cell's organelles work together to allow living things to function. Explore blood cells, muscle cells, and nerve cells, skin cells, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.6 ANDContents: Largo / Schulz (3:35) -- Adagio / Holt Sombach (Quatuor Rosamonde) (5:36) -- Rondeau / Reichardt (Quatuor Rosamonde ; Marc Marder, double bass) (6:35) -- Sonata no. 3. Récit. Andantino amoroso / Naumann (3:55) -- Adagio K.V. 356 (K.V.617a) (3:07) ; Adagio und Rondo K.V.617 (Philippe Bernold, flute ; Maurice Bourgue, oboe ; Jean Sulem, viola ; Xavier Gagnepain, cello) (12:09) / Mozart --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GLAMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces plant and animal cells and their cycles, including cell diagrams, meiosis, mitosis, and disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.6 MIDDeGette, Diana.
Contents: What in God's name?? -- Where I stand -- The bubble bill -- Ms. DeGette goes to Washington -- Charting the course -- Francesca -- Angels dancing on the head of a pin -- Snowflake babies -- Send in the clones -- Abstinence only -- Whatever it is, I'm against it! -- An ounce of prevention -- Through no fault on anybody's part -- A foolish consistency -- Closing arguments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2008