Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANStilton, Geronimo
Summary: The discovery of an old map by his sister Thea leads Geronimo and his family to search for buried treasure on a faraway island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STISummary: At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls-- including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs-- search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. One of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: It's election time at Mouseford Academy, and the candidates from the Lizard and Gecko student clubs have to win several competitions if they want to become class president. But during the competitions, something mysterious tries to pollute the island's beaches! The fate of the election and their beautiful island home is at stake!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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Summary: Everyone is talking about Windy Island's new surf center, even Nicky's hero, Australian surf champion Gary Moon! The artificial reef is supposed to create perfect waves. But the Thea sisters have discovered a dangerous secret: even a surf champion can't face these giant waves! It's up to them to break the story before another reef is built off the shore of their beloved Donkey Beach.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIStilton, Thea
Summary: While salvaging a Viking ship submerged off the coast of Mouse Island with their Mouseford Academy classmates, the Thea Sisters learn that someone wants to steal the vessel's historic treasure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIMichel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MichaelSummary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Traveling through time to defend history from his arch nemeses, the Pirate Cats, Geronimo and friends join Christopher Columbus on his voyage from Italy to the New World in 1942 in order to stop the Pirate Cats and save all of the mice on Mouse Island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STILloyd Webber, Andrew
Contents: Prologue (1:39) -- Any dream will do (3:53) -- Jacob and sons / Joseph's coat (5:37) -- Joseph's dreams (2:55) -- Poor, poor Joseph (2:36) -- One more angel in Heaven (3:01) -- Potiphar (4:47) -- Close every door (3:47) -- Go, go, go Joseph (5:28) -- Act two: Pharaoh story (3:07) -- Poor, poor Pharaoh (1:51) -- Song of the King (seven fat cows) (3:13) -- Pharaoh's dreams explained (1:21) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Really Useful Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC JOSSummary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan and a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRSummary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoHeyns, Michiel
Summary: ""Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heyns 2017Michaeli, Ethan
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Israel by award-winning author Ethan Michaeli, who documents the nation at its most volatile moment by weaving together the personal histories of Holocaust survivors, tech millionaires, Torah scholars, Ethiopian Prisoners of Zion, Russian emigres, West Bank settlers, and Palestinians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.694 MICSummary: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILRyan, Muchael
Summary: Join intrepid chefs Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess on the best sort of culinary adventure - one that could happen only in Tokyo. From daybreak to late night, discover the creative people and compelling stories behind the restaurants, bars and tea houses of the world's most exciting food destination. This is a book as much for people travelling to the city as it is for those with an appreciation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.2135 RYAWeissman, Michaele
Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEIDahlén, Micael
Summary: "How many unread emails are there in your inbox? How many hours of sleep did you get last week? How many steps did you walk today? We're drowning in digits and immersed in integers, and More Numbers Every Day, by internationally renowned economics professors Micael Dahlen and Helge Thorbjørnsen is a timely and powerful investigation - and warning - about the trouble numbers can bring us. Today...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 DAHDanna, Mychael
Contents: Carolina / Taylor Swift -- Out yonder where the crawdads sing -- A swamp knows all about death -- They called me Kya -- The marsh girl -- Mussels for jumpin' -- A feather from Tate -- Am I your girlfriend now? -- Snow geese -- Another season passed -- You're never going to come back -- The fourth of July -- View from the fire tower -- Clothes from Miss Mabel -- Chase Andrews -- Red wool fibers...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WHESummary: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's speaker system to participate in a series of murderous moral decisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELSummary: Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is the terror of the Spanish Main, striking crippling blows against the oppressive Spanish war machine, freeing English slaves from the galley ships and filling England's coffers with Spanish gold--with the tacit approval of England's Queen Elizabeth I. When the dashing Thorpe raids and sinks a diplomatic vessel bringing ambassador Don José Alvarez de Cordoba and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005