Summary: It centers around a young jazz guitarist, Jazzen Goodman, who dreams of becoming a jazz legend, hiring his best friend Dylan to film him on his journey. After being upstaged by his old bandmate at a house show where their now dueling bands are on the same bill, Jazzen has a dream about his death. Haunted by this "premonition" that he will meet his death in 30 days, Jazzen starts to devise a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: A 12-year-old tech prodigy's science experiment goes awry and he forges a telepathic connection with his best friend, his dog. The duo join forces and use their unique perspectives on life to comically overcome complications of family and school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THISen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 536 SENSeny
Summary: "The Initiation Exam throws an unexpected curveball at young Saigami candidates, including Ayumi, who has arrived in this strange fantasy world under mysterious circumstances. While these young, powerful teenagers have no way of knowing, the contest strings are being pulled from the shadows, putting their future careers--and their lives--in jeopardy. Ayumi and the others will have to act fast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SAISen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENSen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENMen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MENNee, John Shen Yen
Summary: In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Contents: If the answer isn't love -- Bad state -- St. Peter blind -- Diagnosis -- Pressure on the pulse -- Naive -- Feel change -- What you say -- Surrender -- Deeper -- Pain -- Forsythia -- Reality.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORSen, Chaitali
Summary: In The Pathless Sky, Chaitali Sen conjures a world in which a nation’s political turmoil, its secret history and growing social unrest turn life into a fragile and capricious thing and love into a necessary refuge to be defended at all cost. A world not unlike the one we live in. John, a hapless young student with a potentially brilliant academic career ahead of him, and Mariam, a shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSen, Amartya Kumar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.01 SENSummary: Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BADContents: American style / Weaker Youth Ensemble -- I hate mornings / The Exceptions -- Rude girl / Skolers -- Vasectomy / Johnny Socko -- Ye Olde House of Mutton / The Pacers -- It's time / International Jet Set -- Skankin' in moon boots / Ten Cent Fun -- Chuck Taylors / Tom Collins & the Cocktail Shakers -- Trouble again / Skapone -- Grow up / Mustard Plug -- Down in Jamaica / Heavy Manners -- G.I....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump Up! 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMEShen, Ann
Summary: Shen profiles women of color who pushed the boundaries, rewrote the rules, and led the way for the women in the communities to follow in their footsteps. From the big screen to the halls of NASA; from the courts of the US OPen to the Supreme Court, these short (one- to three-page) articles will inspire you to embrace your authentic self and live your life in full color. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHEShen, Ann.
Summary: "Bad Girls Throughout History features some of the fiercest women of all time - the famous, the infamous, and the ones you haven't even heard of yet. Explore the notable works, impressive feats, and striking portraits of these wild women from around the globe who challenged the status quo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Contents: Many things / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:01) -- Na oil / Lekan Animashaun (8:09) -- Don't give that shit to me / Adedimeji Fagbemi (9:21) -- Fire dance / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:09) -- Think Afrika / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (6:49) -- Mosquito song / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (7:23) -- African problems / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (5:01)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disorient Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTSeu Jorge
Contents: Rebel rebel -- Life on Mars? -- Starman -- Ziggy Stardust -- Lady Stardust -- Changes -- Oh! You pretty things -- Rock n' roll suicide -- Suffragette City -- Five years -- Queen bitch -- When I live my dream -- Quicksand -- Team Zissou / Seu Jorge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN JORTanabe, Gen
Summary: "Each entry contains all the necessary information for students and parents to complete the application process, including eligibility requirements, how to obtain an application, how to get more information about each award, sponsor website listings, award amounts, and key deadlines. With scholarships for high school, college, graduate, and adult students, this guide also includes tips on how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege 2023