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Sobel, Dava.Summary: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PGSummary: Seth is an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie, a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn't believe in angels until she meets Seth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CITSummary: A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.2 SOBSobel, Dava.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GALILEI, GALILEO SOBSobel, Dava.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998