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Ewen, Stuart. Fritz, Ben. Gounelle, Laurent Hiaasen, Carl. Mallery, Susan Rampton, SheldonRampton, Sheldon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2 RAMMallery, Susan
Summary: When Jack discovers the truth about Larissa's feelings, her touch suddenly becomes tantalizing, and he's not sure he wants to resist. But if he gives in to desire, heartache is sure to follow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MALSummary: An original comedy series that takes a modern look at love and happiness through two people who haven't been successful with either. After a whirlwind courtship and devastating break-up, Jimmy and Gretchen struggle to move on while constantly being pulled back toward one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUEwen, Stuart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2 EWEGounelle, Laurent
Summary: "Alice is very good at her job. She's on the rise at a prominent PR firm, and there is no image-management disaster she can't fix. But when her dearest friend, a parish priest in a charming French village, becomes depressed about his dwindling number of parishioners, she may finally have met her biggest challenge. Though an avowed atheist, Alice is determined to apply her skills to the problem....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Ex-reporter Joe Winder had been working in the public relations department of a sleazy family entertainment park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, when he chanced upon a news-breaking story inspired by the disappearance of two blue-tongued voles and the bizarre death of Orky, the killer whale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIASummary: Meet Gretchen and Jimmy. She's a cynical PR rep for rappers and he's a narcissistic British novelist. Impressed by each other's bad behavior at Jimmy's ex-girlfriend's wedding, they begin what they swear is a casual sexual relationship, until it turns out to be more than that.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: In the second hilarious season of this audacious and witty comedy series, music biz PR rep Gretchen and struggling novelist Jimmy move in together. As domestic and career challenges take their toll on the cynical couple, Gretchen's depression inspires her to stalk her more together neighbors. And a visit from Jimmy's trashy, unsupportive family proves that for all his faults, Jimmy's the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: After a whirlwind courtship and rough post-cohabitation period, Season Three finds Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) trying to keep the good times rolling while confronting the F- word ... "family". Meanwhile, Edgar (Desmin Borges) searches for therapy to combat his PTSD, and Lindsay (Kether Donohue) faces a big decision in this original comedy series that takes a modern look at love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: Decades after Richard Nixon launched his anti-drug campaign, illicit opiates are cheaper, more potent, and easier to obtain than ever. Is it possible to wipe out addiction by keeping narcotics illegal, or has their ban caused more problems than it's solved? This program reveals how the war on drugs started and who its real targets were, examining its consequences and unintended victims. Afghan...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Amidst the mudslinging, campaign promises, and scare tactics, what is really being said in those highly produced political ads? In this program, Bill Moyers talks with one of America's leading political and media analysts, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School of Communication and author of Everything You Think You Know About Politics. And Why You're Wrong. Through astute...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Fritz, Ben.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRISummary: "A self-centered New York City publicist suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as [he] must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD THRILLER PHOSummary: Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? In this episode of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with retired U.S. Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich, who identifies three major problems facing American democracy-crises of economy, government, and militarism-and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life. Respected by Republicans and Democrats alike, Bacevich is author...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama is a former neoconservative who argued for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein-then changed his mind before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. What caused his reversal? If the war had gone differently, would he have revised his opinion again? What strategies does he envision for promoting global democracy in the future?...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Beginning with a summary of Cuban history from the island’s 16th-century subjugation by Spanish conquistadors to the 20th-century communist revolution, this program scrutinizes the current state of U.S./Cuba relations through the eyes of progressives, who want to put the past behind them for the benefit of Cubans still suffering from the decades-long U.S. embargo, and the anti-Castro expatriate...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Frontline program examines the current controversy surrounding the issue of childhood vaccination in America. Young parents are concerned over the sheer number of shots - up to 26 inoculations for 14 different diseases by age 6. Advocacy groups, such as Generation Rescue, view vaccines as responsible for rising rates of autism and ADHD. Yet public health officials tout vaccines as one of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Since the bubonic plague killed millions in the Middle Ages, vector-borne diseases - those that rely on insects and animals to spread infection - have posed a serious threat to public health. And today, the mosquito is the most dangerous vector on earth. From malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus, mosquito-borne diseases continue to threaten the health of millions around the world.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: During the past century, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. However, in the last few decades, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged. One of them, AIDS, is perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. This program examines the most critical threats we face today and the pressing need to strengthen global public health systems.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: While the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement are still being argued, the perils of one of the treaty's most powerful secrets are beginning to emerge. Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy is the first television investigation of what has been called an "end run around the Constitution." Corporate investors are using the obscure NAFTA provision to challenge laws designed to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The face of heroin is changing. No longer the dirty, back alley drug of two decades ago, heroin is now purer, stronger, and cheaper than ever before. The global heroin market has exploded, with Afghanistan now supplying as much as 92 percent of the world's heroin supply. This film enters the work and lives of both addicts and law enforcement officials in several countries that are struggling...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: What, if anything, has American military power achieved in Iraq? What are the origins of the fractured nation's sectarian warfare? Are Iraqi security forces more dangerous than Islamist insurgents? This documentary features reports that U.S. and Iraqi government forces can be linked to the country's most dire security problems. Featuring interviews with high-ranking officials in the Interior...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Is America's "war on terrorism" a defensive reaction to the events of September 11th or a smokescreen for an attempt to secure oil and spread Western culture throughout the Middle East? Syrian-born BBC correspondent Rana Kabbani takes a personal journey through the region to explain Arab anger with the United States and how Muslims in the region have come to view America. Kabbani tours Egypt,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005