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(Fictitious character) Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) Tin Woodman Comic books, strips, etc Alzheimer's disease Fiction Fiction television programs Films for the hearing impaired Graphic novels Television comedies Television series Video recordings for the hearing impaired Women college teachers FictionDominiak, Kristy.
Summary: On the outside, Kristy Dominiak appeared to have a seemingly perfect life—a devoted husband, three healthy children, financial stability, recognition in the community, and a beautiful, lakeside home with the proverbial white picket fence. But inside, she was falling apart. Inside, she was waging war against personal demons that were looking to take everything she held precious away from her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kristy Dominiak 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 170 DOMSummary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moby 2001Moore, Julianne
Summary: A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Still 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STI RATED PG-13Summary: A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PASDavies, Nicola
Summary: A young thief finds a purpose in her life after stealing a bag from an older woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Levi Kinsinger returns to Charm, Ohio, and finds a sense of purpose in life for the first time since his father's death when he agrees to help a young widowed neighbor. Friendship builds to attraction, but Julia is keeping something from Levi. She is really an unwed mother pretending to be a widow"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRASummary: After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED GSummary: 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend and begins to question his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, he grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. Nathan sets out to find his mother and come to terms with her rejection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MeantGiffels, David.
Summary: "Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.The Industrial Midwest built modern America, thrived for almost a century, then profoundly collapsed. But for cities like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0977 GIFBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquiresa new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAMadson, Justin
Summary: "In Justin Madson's debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed--she doesn't even want to help him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MADGenova, Lisa
Summary: Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GENAziz, Shajen Joy.
Summary: Explores the idea that we are each given a unique Gift, a purpose in our life that is always seeking to express itself. Find that Gift and you can experience joy, power, fulfillment, freedom and unconditional love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 204.4 AZIGenova, Lisa.
Summary: Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GenCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Genova 2009Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P GENSummary: "Man's best, rudest friend and his pal Ryan return for more hilarious, mind-bending adventures in the fourth season of Wilfred. In order to mend things with his estranged father and ease worries for his mother and Kristen, Ryan (Elijah Wood) may need to push Wilfred (Jason Gann) to the curb. But when tragedy strikes, it leads to more confusion as well as more answers about Ryan's purpose in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WILOwens, Lisa
Summary: "In the tradition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It comes a wise and laugh-out-loud debut novel that captures a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan for her next move. As she struggles to explain herself to friends and family, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWESummary: After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BREBach, David
Summary: America's favorite money book for couples, is back, completely revised and updated. Offers a nine-step program to help couples build and maintain their financial wealth through proven strategies for organization, communication, and smarter spending in the current economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 BACHerbert, James
Summary: Joseph Creed is a paparazzo, one of that un-illustrious band of photographers whose sole purpose in life is to chase and harass celebrities for candid shots, preferably of the seedier kind. Creed is a sleaze of the first order, but good at his job; nothing will stop him getting the right shot. After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, he photographs a man of ravage appearance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERResau, Laura
Summary: Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants totalk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RESKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: When Micky Bellsong encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl, and her stepfather Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, but when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOOPunter, Russell
Summary: After Dorothy's house is carried off by a tornado, she finds herself in the strange and magical Land of Oz. With the help of her new friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, she must persuade the Wizard of Oz to help her get back to Kansas. L. Frank Baum's timeless fantasy is beautifully recreated in this enchanting graphic novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020