Summary: A Connecticut adult swim class sets the stage for this comedy-drama about love, loss and second chances. Three strangers, inextricably connected through personal heartbreak, find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in-- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HITKhandro
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.374 RINSummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARPhaedra
Contents: Death will come -- Honeydewed autumn - The first to die -- Oserian -- Black dog -- Sister -- The darkest hour -- The sea.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rune Grammofon 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PHASummary: This compilation contains all six episodes of the BBC's adaptation of a sci-fi fantasy about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hitchhikers 2002Summary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICChandra, Deborah.
Summary: A rollicking rhyme portrays George Washington's lifelong struggle with bad teeth. A timeline taken from diary entries and other nonfiction sources follows.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 973.4 CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHAChandra, Sheila.
Contents: All you want is more -- Out on my own -- Village girl -- Storm trance -- From a whisper... to a scream -- Prema, Shanti, Dharma, Satya -- Unchanged malady -- Missing the voice -- Fly to me -- Songbird.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Narada World 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN CHASirom
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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Summary: From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABlumberg, Chandra
Summary: Alisha Blake creates delectable desserts for her grandfather's restaurant in rural Illinois... but dreams about opening a cookie shop in Chicago. When a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents' backyard, paleontologist Quentin Harris is hoping that the fossil will distract him from a recent painful breakup. Sparks fly... but Alisha is scared to fall in love. And Quentin is trying to make a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2022
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Contents: Quiet 1 -- Quiet 2 -- Quiet 3 -- Quiet 4 -- Quiet 5 -- Quiet 6 -- Quiet 7 -- Quiet 8 -- Quiet 9 -- Quiet 10.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Indipop Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN CHASimone.
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 SIMChandra, Sheila.
Contents: Speaking in tongues I (1:45) -- Dhyana and Donalogue (4:40) -- Nana (2:45) ; The dreaming (5:37) -- Ever so lonely ; Eyes ; Ocean (3:26) -- The enchantment (4:49) -- The call (1:38) -- Bhajan (7:06) -- Speaking in tongues II (3:08) -- Sacred stones (5:30) -- Om Namaha Shiva (2:55).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Realworld Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN INDONESIAN CHAHoffman, Chandra.
Summary: Chloe Pinter, a Portland adoption caseworker, becomes increasingly involved in the lives of three couples, two of whom are expecting babies and one who is seeking to adopt, and must deal with the aftermath when a baby is kidnapped.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFManning, Chandra
Summary: Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war, and they began running to the Union army. By the war's end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised "contraband camps". These were crowded and dangerous places, with conditions approaching those of a humanitarian crisis, yet families and individuals took...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MANRam, Chandra
Summary: The Instant Pot® is a game-changer for Indian cooking because it replaces a pressure cooker, slow cooker, yogurt maker, rice cooker, bread proofer and steamer all in one. Gone are the days when preparing Indian food just seemed too intimidating or for weekends only. Dried lentils and chickpeas cook in a flash, even when they haven't been soaked overnight. Rice is perfectly done in ten minutes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Robert Rose 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.587 RAMHahn, Chanda.
Summary: Going to the Fae plane against Jared's orders has cost Mina dearly. Her decision haunts her as a new danger surfaces back on the human plane. The Grimms are fading from existence.To save her family's future, Mina Grime will have to travel to the past with the help of her Fae Godmother and a pair of magic shoes.She must go to the Story's very beginning, to the days before the dark prince's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hahn 2019Ciraolo, 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: 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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 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