Schiff, Peter D.
Summary: An update of the author's financial survival guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides insights and information to help survive the current economic downturn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: In 1970s England, Dalgliesh and his junior, DS Kate Miskin, investigate the murders of a forensic scientist, a controversial lawyer, and a young doctor at odds with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALContents: CD #1: K.C. blues ; Cannon ball blues / (Frank Hutchison) -- Leaving home ; If the river was whiskey / (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Duplin County blues / (Cauley Family) -- Sweet Sarah blues ; Frankie Dean / (Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton) -- A darkey's wail / (Riley Puckett) -- Johnson City blues / (Clarence Green) -- Mistreated blues / (the Carolina Buddies) -- Haunted...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WHIWard, Peter D. (Peter Douglas)
Summary: "In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 WARSummary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARSummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERHawksworth, D. L.
Summary: A latest entry in the series that includes Dinosaurium introduces readers to the world of fungi and why they are among the planet's most remarkable living organisms, explaining the vital role they play in medicine, agriculture, and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 579.5 HAWSchiff, Thomas R.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708.13 SCHS D Mitchell L Alter
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Movietone Music Corp. 1936
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYAdams, Peter D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ward Lock 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9772 ADASummary: A rough and vicious group of detectives stumble onto a conspiracy involving the murder of a general and a top secret nuclear program.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MulhollandSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLIRiley, Peter D.
Summary: Describes different kinds of magnets and uses simple experiments to explain how magnetism works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 538.4 RILEYWard, Peter D.
Summary: In this introduction to the emerging field of astrobiology, a distinguished paleontologist and a noted astronomer team up to provide a fascinating synthesis of what's now known about the rise of life on Earth and how it sheds light on possibilities for organic life forms elsewhere in the universe. Illustrations. First book to synthesize discoveries from astronomy & paleontology regarding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copernicus 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.839 WARKramer, Peter D.
Summary: "Do antidepressants actually work, or are they just glorified dummy pills? How can we tell one way or the other?In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer addresses the growing mistrust of antidepressants among the medical establishment and the broader public by taking the long view. He charts the history of the drugs' development and the research that tests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 KRAWARD, PETER D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIKIN 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.839 WARJeans, Peter D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 JEAMacLeod, D. Peter
Summary: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years' War in North America, which in turn led to the creation of Canada and the United States as we know them today. Rooted in original...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books 2016