Schiffman, Jay
Summary: Max Cone is a renowned military commander and judge, but all he really wants is a life outside politics. When one leader gives Cone a powerful device that predicts the future, he doesn't want to believe the prophecy: that the world will soon end, and he is to blame. Soon after, his wife and children are taken, his allies are killed, and his friends are imprisoned. With the world descenting into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma. A college student attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOMShiffman, John.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHIShiffman, John.
Summary: John Shiffman presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect U.S. soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield; an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.93 SHISchiman, Stella.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robinwood Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.463 SCH1 available in Genealogy, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 Schiman
Shiefman, Vicky
Summary: "Children are invited to move their bodies in this interactive, call-and-response story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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Summary: Lonely forest ranger Fraser sets out on an adventure to find a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONSummary: "Switch on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the only intergalactic program with enough firepower to blast misbegotten B movies into the can't-miss hits that delusional filmmakers believed they were creating! Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson join forces with two robots who would never be lost in space - the wisecracking Tom Servo and madcap Crow. Together, our heroes strive to make the universe safe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYSSummary: This is the true story of Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator who quickly rose to the top of the pack as the number one contender for the 1987 Democratic presidential primary. Due to his charisma and drive, Hart connects well with the younger constituents, and both himself and his aides see this a clear and present path to victory. But allegations soon emerge of an extramarital affair, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FROHammonds, Jas
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAMNay, Roz
Summary: "Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. She lives in an idyllic resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, shares a designer loft with her handsome boyfriend, Chase, and has her dream job working in child protection. Every day, Alex goes above and beyond to save children at risk. But when her long-lost sister, Ruth, unexpectedly shows up at her door, Alex's perfect life is upended....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYReese, Jacy
Summary: "Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming pushes this conversation forward by outlining a strategic roadmap to a humane, ethical, and efficient food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete--where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 REEUttal, Jai.
Contents: Lake of exploits (4:31) -- Hara shiva shankara (7:50) -- Be with you (5:26) -- Gopala (8:27) -- Rama bolo (7:59) -- Radhé radhé (7:29) -- Monoka (6:27) -- Beggars and saints (6:46) -- Lake of exploits pt. 2 (4:40) -- Conductor (5:49) -- Coda (1:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triloka 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE UTTSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELBaruchel, Jay
Summary: Hiccup, Toothless, and their friends set up an outpost on the island called Dragon's Edge, discover the mysterious Dragon Eye artifact, and face new challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRABay, James
Contents: Craving (3:48) -- Hold Back The River (3:59) -- Let It Go (4:21) -- If You Ever Want To Be In Love (3:59) -- Best Fake Smile (3:25) -- When We Were On Fire (3:58) -- Move Together (4:35) -- Scars (4:33) -- Collide (3:24) -- Get Out While You Can (4:40) -- Need The Sun To Break (3:45) -- Incomplete (3:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Records 2015
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Jal, Emmanuel.
Summary: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962.404 JAL, EMMANUEL JALJemc, Jac
Summary: History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: During the Cold War, a 24-year-old East German soldier is chosen to go undercover as a West German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEURamesh, Jaya
Summary: What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 RAMBas Jan
Contents: Indhold: At the Counter(5:16 min) -- No More Swamp(3:37 min) -- Credit Card(3:11 min) -- Ding Dong(3:38 min) -- Margaret Calvert Drives Out(4:44 min) -- Back to the Swamp(4:15 min) -- Singing Bar(3:19 min) -- Cried a River(4:27 min) -- Tarot Card(5:14 min)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASNay, Roz
Summary: They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you. Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished. Homicide Detective J. Novak believes Angela knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAY`Jaye, Lola.
Summary: A poignant and provocative story of adoption, self-discovery, and the meaning of family, Being Lara by author Lola Jaye ( By the Time You Read This ) is an unforgettable tale of three women—British mother, Nigerian birth mother, and 30-year-old daughter—the choices they made, and the fragile bond they try to create across time and continents. Intelligent and touching, Being Lara is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012