Summary: In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOBSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARTommie Connor
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Regent Music 1952
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMalie, Tommie.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Milton Weil Music Co. 1927
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSmith, Tommie
Summary: "A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SMIPreuitt, Sheela
Summary: "By completing these projects, readers will gain a solid baseline in coding. Build a slideshow, design a flag, create headlines that scroll across the bottom of newscasts, and more!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.5 PREHommer, Ed.
Summary: Ed Hommer discusses his life as an air pilot and mountaineer, how he and a fellow mountain climber survived for four nights with no supplies after their plane crashed on Mount McKinley, his recovery from the episode, life as an amputee, and recent climb of Mount McKinley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HOMPruitt, Katie
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRUTammet, Daniel
Summary: A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMMET, DAVID TAMTomine, Adrian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMShults, Tammie
Summary: Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults's remarkable life--from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy's first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHULTS, TAMMIE JO SHUTammet, Daniel
Summary: Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; he looks at the music and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 TAMHuf, Tammye
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HUFTomine, Adrian
Summary: What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile: despite the accolades and opportunities of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMToomer, Jean
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOOZommer, Yuval
Summary: Drawing from Yuval Zommer's wildly popular, fact-filled The Big Book of Blooms, this jam-packed sticker activity book brings the plant world alive in a creative way. Taking fascinating facts as their starting point, activities invite children to draw, color, and play games with plants, insects, and birds from around the world, inspiring children's interest in nature as they play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 635.9 ZOMTomine, Adrian
Summary: "Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics but as one of the great voices of modern American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMTomine, Adrian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMTomine, Dylan.
Summary: Depicts the days and seasons of a family intent on living joyfully, providing a meditation on our relationship to nature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 TOMPruitt, Shane
Summary: "...Shane Pruitt tackles popular one-liners that have wormed their way into our Christian vernacular... As Shane reminds us, when we move past religious jargon and the catchphrases of cultural Christianity, we can focus our minds on the Word of God. Because Scripture offers more than one-liners intended to comfort; it offers an invitation to know God himself."--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 PRUTammet, Daniel
Summary: An autistic savant with genius-level mathematical talents describes how he was shunned by his classmates in spite of his super-human capacity for math and language and offers insight into how he experiences the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 616.85882 TAMTammet, Daniel
Summary: The mathematical savant uses personal stories and everyday examples to describe the way numbers and equations form the basis of our lives, from snowflakes to Anne Boleyn's extra finger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 TAM1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Pruitt, Deborah.
Contents: Introduction -- Element one: Inspiration -- Element two: Agreements -- Element three: Accountability -- Element four: Acknowledgment -- Element five: Renewal -- Element six: Mastery -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Assessment questions -- Appendix B: Domains for mastery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Group Alchemy Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 PRUZommer, Yuval
Summary: An animal fact book includes trivia on creatures from around the world, detailing their behaviors, physical characteristics, and life cycles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2017