Summary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSummary: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ZOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Zookeeper's 2017Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASirom
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SIRSpoon
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPOAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADASimone.
Contents: Começar de novo = To begin again : The island (3:42) -- Canôa canôa = Canoe, canoe (3:51) -- Reis e rainhas do Maracatu = Kings and queens of Maracatu (2:55) -- Então vale a pena = Then it was worth it (4:07) -- Itamarandiba (3:16) -- Pedaço de mim = Piece of me (3:49) -- Face a face = Face to face (4:29) -- Tô voltando = I'm returning (3:56) -- Valso rancho = Carnival waltz (3:26) -- Cigarra =...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI-Odeon 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SIMMills, Simeon
Summary: "A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Mills 2019Symon, Charles.
Summary: This volume affords an opportunity fo UP people to take a look at themselves and swell a bit with pride at "what we have done", and for the rest of the world to awe at what this little, sparsley settled region has produced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RonJon Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 SYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977 SYMNicolaides, Kimon
Contents: Contour and gesture -- The comprehension of gesture -- Weight and the modelled drawing -- Memory drawing and other quick studies -- The modelled drawing in ink-the daily composition -- The modelled drawing in water color-right-angle study -- Emphasis on contour-the head -- Special form studies -- An approach to the subject of technique -- The simple proportions-effort -- The study of drapery --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 NicolaidesEdelman, Shimon.
Summary: Draws on philosophy, literature, and brain science to explain why the pursuit of happiness is a more complicated effort than understood by most people, sharing insights into how to apply scientific methods for increasing one's chances of achieving happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 EDECiraolo, Simona
Summary: "He's not the type to stand out. In fact, unless you were looking for him, you wouldn't know he was missing at all. But you know us, the shy ones, we can always spot one another. This delicate picture book about a quiet little octopus that keeps to himself in a school of lively fish explores the topic of shyness and friendship"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
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Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSymon, Michael
Summary: When Michael Symon found out he had rheumatoid arthritis and external lupus, he suspected that what he ate -- or didn't eat -- could make a profound difference in his levels of inflammation and how he felt. So he committed to a food "reset" on The Chew: no red meat, white flour, sugar, dairy, or alcohol. Michael used social media to share his experiment with his fans, and was shocked by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 SYMDamon
Contents: Disc 1: Song of a gypsy -- Poor poor genie -- Don't you feel me -- Did you ever -- Funky funky blues -- Do you -- The night -- Feel your love -- Birds fly so high -- The road of life -- Oh what a good boy I am -- Song of a gypsy (45 version) -- Song of a gypsy (demo version) -- Poor poor genie (demo version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAMLimon, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMSimeon, Sheldon
Summary: "The story of Hawaiian cooking, by a two-time Top Chef finalist and Fan Favorite, through 100 recipes that embody the beautiful cross-cultural exchange of the islands. On two seasons of Top Chef, Sheldon Simeon established himself as a leading young, creative chef (he was both a finalist and Fan Favorite on both seasons). The role he is even more proud to fill, though, is as the storyteller of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59969 SIMDion
Summary: A street poet and singer of extraordinary versatility, range, and resonance, Dion defined rock n' roll for a generation. Now he has returned to his deepest roots and influences to release his first blues album with mostly original songs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horizon 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIOSymon, Michael
Summary: In preparing to open his barbecue restaurant, Mabel's BBQ, Michael Symon enthusiastically sampled smoked meat from across America. The 72 finger-licking, lip-smacking recipes here draw inspiration from his favorites, including dry ribs from Memphis, wet ribs from Nashville, brisket from Texas, pork steak from St. Louis, and burnt ends from Kansas City--to name just a few--as well as the unique...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.7 SYMPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERSiamon, Sharon.
Summary: Text and photographs describe paleontologists and their fossil discoveries in Canada's Red Deer River Valley, also known as Dinosaur Valley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub. 2007