Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLLinklater, Andro.
Summary: Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911.73 LINLinklater, Andro.
Summary: Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LINAncco
Summary: "Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before her faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self. Whether it's friends, family, animals, or even a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANCManuro
Summary: "This new middle-grade graphic novel series features an interactive pick-a-path storyline, full of puzzles, treasures, fantasy creatures, and gameplay you can enjoy again and again! Enter a world inspired by favorite fairy tales, complete with gingerbread houses, a girl dressed in red, and seven brothers lost in the woods. Readers can play as Hocus (a girl) or Pocus (a boy), choose a magic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MANAncco
Summary: "Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANCKhandro
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.374 RINManuro
Summary: Siblings Hocus and Pocus, students at a magical school, investigate the strange disappearance of Snow White's seven cousins, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MANPerri, Sandro
Contents: Time (you got me) -- Floriana -- God blessed the fool -- Back on love -- Wrong about the rain -- Soft landing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PERAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMILTON ANDAndry, Andrew C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.6 ANDAndros, Camille
Summary: A little girl and her favorite dress have extraordinary adventures together, but when the girl emigrates from Greece to the United States they are separated, and the dress travels the world searching for her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDDandro, Travis
Summary: "From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 DANSummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWPedro.
Contents: Prefuse 73 -- Cherrystones -- Danger mouse -- Pedro -- Home skillet -- Fourtet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melodic 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PedroSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARDay, Andra.
Contents: Forever mine -- Only love -- Gold -- Not today -- Mistakes -- Goodbye goodnight -- Rearview -- Red flags -- Honey or fire -- Gin & juice (Let go my hand) -- Rise up -- City burns -- Cheers to the fall.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES DAYPerri, Sandro.
Contents: Changes -- Love and light -- How will I? -- Futureactive kid (part I) -- Futureactive kid (part II) -- Wolfman -- Impossible spaces.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Constellation 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PERBucci, Andra
Summary: "On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati, her four-year-old sister Andra, and other members of the family were deported to Auschwitz. Their mother Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made them memorize her number and told them to "always remember your name." In keeping this promise to their mother, the sisters were able to be reunited...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUCCI BUCDay, Andra
Contents: Forever Mine (3:19) -- Only Love (3:24) -- Gold (3:45) -- Not Today (3:53) -- Mistakes (3:34) -- Goodbye Goodnight (4:26) -- Rearview (4:04) -- Red Flags (3:47) -- Honey Or Fire (3:17) -- Gin & Juice (Let Go My Hand) (3:31) -- Rise Up (4:13) -- City Burns (4:53) -- Cheers To The Fall (3:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros./Buskin 2015
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Monetti, Sandro.
Summary: Mickey Rourke: Wrestling With Demons is an intimate and revealing portrait of a complex man who happens to be one of the most intriguing actors of our time. Written with passion, insight and expertise by respected entertainment journalist Sandro Monetti, this is the compelling story of how Mickey Rourke wrestled his demons and won. Diner, Rumble Fish, 9½ Weeks, The Pope of Greenwich Village,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Transit Publishing Inc. 2010
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Veronesi, Sandro
Summary: "Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERPixley-Fink, Elisabeth.
Contents: Tracks -- Red clover -- Love still learning -- And you, still -- Songs of the night -- Spider woman -- Water bird takes flight -- The night was old -- If you're gone -- Rubber band -- Welcome to the rain -- Bloodroot
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earthwork 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL FINKSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010