Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
Summary: "In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes about a solitary summer visit to Alaska, observing glaciers, shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and herself. As she studies her surroundings, the myth of Alaska-excitement, exploration, possibility-is complicated by boredom and isolation, and her attempts to set down place in writing are suffused with nostalgia and anxiety. The first title commissioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SABSloan, Sasha
Contents: Intro (0:46) -- I blame the world (3:17) -- Adult (3:04) -- Live laugh love (3:02) -- Thank you (3:10) -- WTF (3:01) -- New normal (3:08) -- Global warming (3:01) -- I h8 myself (2:48) -- One trick phony (3:04) -- Hardest thing I've ever done (3:42).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SLOSummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CATSagan, Sasha (Alexandra Rachel Druyan)
Summary: "Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan--a luminous exploration of all Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Doan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOASummary: Plans for a quiet Thanksgiving between two friends go up in smoke when their party is crashed by a comically chaotic group of friends, lovers, and relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Saban Films 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRISummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVSloan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Sinha, Manisha.
Summary: "Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SINDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Jack Berenson's parents thought up another get-rich-quick scheme...in Kenya! Now an animal attack is about to send Jack up a tree?alone, with limited supplies. Can Jack outsmart the wild life and survive?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publishing Group 2014
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Summary: Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama asks all kinds of baby animals his question. Will he ever get the answer he longs to hear? Leo the late bloomer: What's the matter with Leo? He can't read, write or speak like the other baby animals can. Will Leo ever bloom? Elizabeti's doll: When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti wants a baby of her own. She finds a rock that will make a perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ISNF
Contents: The search -- Leave Me alone -- Change -- My stress -- Nate -- Time -- Returns -- When I grow up -- Only (feat. Sasha Sloan) -- Let me go-- -Interlude- -- Hate myself -- I miss the days -- No excuses -- Like this -- Options -- Why -- Thinking -- Trauma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: We Don't Stop (4:15) -- Us (3:15) -- Mercy (4:02) -- Tear Down These Walls (feat. Tamra Keenan) (4:05) -- Phoenix (feat. Sasha Sloan) (3:35) -- Disarm You (feat. Ilsey) (3:41) -- Never Sleep Alone (feat. Tess Comrie) (3:44) -- Day Trippin' (feat. Estelle) (3:12) -- Promise (feat. K.Flay) (3:35) -- Breaking Up (feat. Scott Shepard) (4:46) -- A Little More (feat. Sansa) (3:53) -- Papercuts (3:08)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records/Arkade 2015
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Summary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: In a story inspired by the events surrounding the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi, a suicide bomber examines her emotions and finds herself in a psychological divide as she contemplates her future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winstar TV & Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TERSummary: A young boy rediscovers the magic of friendship when his pony gives birth to Nico, a unicorn. Based on the young adult novel by Frank Sacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD NICSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Series follows anti-corruption unit 12 (AC-12) as they investigate fellow police officers accused of corruption. In series five, Stephen Graham stars as John Corbett, the ruthless leader of an organized crime group who hijacks a seized drugs transport. AC-12 investigators suspect corrupt police officers of leaking information. As the body count rises, AC-12 realize they₂re facing their most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LINContents: The baddest man alive (The Black Keys, RZA) -- Black out (Ghostface Killah, M.O.P., Pharoahe Monch) -- White dress (Kanye West) -- I forgot to be your lover (The Revelations feat. Tre Williams) -- Get your way (sex is a weapon) (Idol Warship [Talib Kweli/Res]) -- Rivers of blood (The Wu-Tang Clan, Kool G. Rap) -- Built for this (Method Man, Freddie Gibbs, Streetlife) -- The archer (Killa Sin)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Temple Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to escort a prisoner back. Before they can leave, the prisoner escapes and Coogan sets out to capture his prisoner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COOScorn
Contents: Ends -- French field middle of the night -- Mates corner -- At one point -- Thanks for getting back -- After tasting -- Tick -- Something that was -- Distortion -- Don't and never have.
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