Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMTall Tall Trees
Contents: Backroads -- A place to call your own -- Being there -- CLC -- Lost in time -- Seagullxeagle -- The riverbend -- So predictable -- Freedays.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TALHall, Cally.
Contents: How this book works -- What are gemstones? -- How gemstones are found -- Where gemstones are found -- Physical properties -- Crystal shapes -- Optical properties -- Natural inclusions -- Faceting -- Polishing, carving, and engraving -- Gems through the ages -- History and folklore -- Synthetic gemstones -- Imitation and enhancement -- Color key -- Precious metals -- Cut stones -- Organics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.8 Hall 2002Rall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALMall Grab
Contents: Hand in hand through wonderland (05:27) -- I can remember it so vividly (04:28) -- Love reins (04:55) -- Understand (ft. Brendan Yates) (03:44) -- Patience (ft. Nia Archives) (04:17) -- Without the sun (04:26) -- Spirit wave (05:16) -- Breathing (04:47) -- Intercity relations (04:46) -- Times change (ft. Novelist & D Double E) (03:04) -- Distant conversation (05:17) -- Metaphysical (05:04) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MALStall, Chris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 STA1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.977 STA
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.0977 STASummary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICTeatro Alla Scala
Summary: Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TRAFall, Leo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FallGall, Carlotta
Summary: Describes the toll taken on the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan since the September 11 attacks through ordinary citizens' accounts of fighting and first-hand descriptions from Taliban warlords, intelligence thugs, American generals, and Afghani politicians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 GALGall, Chris
Summary: "Jumbo details the story of the world's first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall,himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the jumbo jet in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.133 GALCall, Alex
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Pub. 1981
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMCall, Marina
Summary: What if you had always dreamed of traveling and suddenly you received some money to make this happen? Oscar Santos embarks on a train and begins his journey eastbound. Leaving his native Portugal, he enters Spain and meets Daniel, upending his plans for a solo journey . These two unlikely characters become friends quickly and soon discover there is much more to learn on their travels than mere...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Call of Eden Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALSummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCTall Dwarfs (Musical group)
Contents: Lag -- What more -- Breath -- Skin of my teeth -- Crawl -- Sign the dotted line -- Pirovette -- Lucky -- Bodies -- Mr Brocolli -- Lie -- The winner -- Rorschach -- Tip of my tongue -- Ozone -- Hallelujah boy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Nun 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TALFall, Cheryl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 FALGrossmith Fall
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: T.G.Harms 1909
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMIn Tall Buildings
Contents: Beginning to fade -- Akinetic -- Long way down -- Overconscious -- Cascadia -- Siren song -- Curtain -- New moon -- Days in clover -- Wake up.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Western Vinyl 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK INTall, J. J.
Summary: The submarine revolutionized naval warfare, progressing from the crude, steam-driven craft of the American Civil War to the silent nuclear machines that can cruise for months underwater without surfacing -- only limited by the endurance of their crews -- and carry intercontinental missiles mounting multiple nuclear warheads. Submarines and Deep-Sea Vehicles traces the history of these vessels,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.8 TALGall, Chris
Summary: Introduces the part-dinosaur, part-truck monsters called Dinotrux, including Dozeratops, Digasaurus, Velocitractor, and Tyrannosaurus Trux.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GALGall, Chris
Summary: A young inventor accidentally creates a group of tiny robots that employ their unique abilities and teamwork to become incredibly useful--and maybe even change the world. Includes author's note on the science and uses of nano-robotics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GALGall, Chris.
Summary: Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, recounting rhyming cautionary tales of the weird, spooky, and unexpected.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GALSummary: The third season of Outlander picks up right after Claire travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank. Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018