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Fiction television programs New York (State) New York Orphan trains Project Apollo (U.S.) Television adaptations Television comedies United States United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Whitney, Henry Melville 1839-1923 Whitney, William C. (William Collins) 1841-1904Summary: NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.44 SPACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.44 SPAWriters' Program (U.S.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Agricultural experiment station 1941
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.982 MIC1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: OFR 634.982 MIC
1 available in Reference, Call number: OFR 634.982 MIC
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Summary: "This is the complete official government in-brief report - including all charts, graphs, and illustrations - of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's National Climate Assessment."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 CLIDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRASummary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In three series filmed over six years, Timothy Spall Somewhere at Sea begins the odyssey that Timothy and his wife Shane embarked upon to circumnavigate Britain in their Dutch barge, The Princess Matilda. Waring: viewer discretion is advised for coarse language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TIMSummary: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SORSummary: Will spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates, unborn souls, arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NINSummary: South Bronx teen Kadir is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the death of his younger brother. Overcome with grief and struggling with the pressures of school and family, he escapes into the thrilling yet dangerous world of graffiti gangs, seeking an outlet for the creative force threatening to explode out of him. To prove himself and join his neighborhood₂s ruling gang, Kadir...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA STO2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Albritton, Jane (EDT)
Contents: On our way-- and back again -- Bound for the Philippines -- Puerto Rico : memories from a battered box -- Philippines : back to school -- Afghanistan : God, president Kennedy, and me -- Tonga : far away places -- Thailand : visits with the veterans -- Philippines : stop pig! drop the flip-flop! -- Samoa : return to the land of the morning calm -- Korea : a letter to Sri Padmanabham -- India :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 EVESummary: This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASITuttle, Sarah Grace
Summary: "This striking board book introduces the extraordinary patterns displayed in living things by featuring nine dotted, striped, or squiggly sea creatures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Editions 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPPrice, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Sea Grant Program 1976
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 597 PriceSummary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACBarlow, Aaron (EDT)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 ONEWriters' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Michigan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford university press 1941
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 MICSummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWSeattle
Summary: A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SEARoosa, Christopher A.
Summary: Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon. The first book written by an offspring of an Apollo astronaut to focus on growing up in that era, Son of Apollo...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROOSA, CHRISTOPHER ROOKennan, Erlend A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.454 KENLos del RGio (Musical group : Spain)
Contents: Macarena : River Fe mix 103 BMP -- Pura carrocerGia : Meme dance short remix -- Macarena : mezcla guerrillera -- La niSna (del paSnuelo colorado) : the afterhours Meme dub -- Macarena : new remix by Bass Bumpers Radio Exit -- Macarena : Bayside Boys mix --La niSna del paSnuelo colorado : the party radio edit --Macarena : non stop version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BMG U.S. Latin 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LOSSummary: Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008