Summary: The legendary George Takei has blazed his own trail while conquering new frontiers with a beaming trademark grin. Take a hilarious, entertaining, and moving look at the many roles played by eclectic 77-year-old actor/activist George Takei. The film offers unprecedented access to the daily life of George and his husband/business partner, Brad Takei, and chronicles his fascinating personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TOSummary: Life on Mars (or anywhere else in the universe)? This book is not a pop-pulp answer to that perennial question. A highly regarded British theoretical physicist with 90,000 Twitter followers and a broadcasting career proving that he can talk to lay readers, Al-Khalili here asks 19 of the world’s leading scientists (from NASA, MIT, and more) to consider what would happen if we did discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 ALKSummary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWOSummary: A latest anthology for tween boys collects ten true stories, biographies, essays, and other engaging short entries by leading nonfiction writers and journalists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GUYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCISummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACLester, Larry.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the various teams and players that spent time in the "Motor city." From the aftermath of the First World War, through the Jazz Age and Prohibition, the Great Depression, and through the 1950s, the history of the Negro Leagues parallels the history of Black America, from segregation to full inclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 LESScurr, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIE SCUStarr, Paul
Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.961 STAStarr, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood StarrSturm, James
Summary: A portrait of the people and their dreams that make up this country are presented in a trilogy--"The Revival," "Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight," and "The Golem's Mighty Swing"--that focuses on less sensational times in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2007
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Summary: Contains a story in which a magical cartooning elf helps a princess make a comic book, while teaching the reader to draw their own comic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "'Is addiction really a disease?' In this high-definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute for Addiction Study 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLEStorr, Will
Summary: Who would we be without stories? Stories mold who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. There have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 STOSummary: The feature-length documentary reveals the fascinating, far-reaching impact and appeal of the show with a compelling blend of rare footage, historical images, and behind-the-scenes stories while also exploring the dramatic talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis. Known as the "King of TV Horror," the Emmy-winning filmmaker followed the show with other iconic genre favorites including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASSpurr, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.822 SPUSpurr, Daniel
Contents: Buying and equipping your first sailboat -- Handling your first sailboat -- Maintaining your first sailboat -- Navigation -- Worst-case scenarios.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill Education 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797 SPUSummary: Montana's stunning landscape shapes all who live here and all who visit. In twenty powerful pieces of writing--essays, memoirs, short stories--the state's finest contemporary writers explore the plains, rivers, and mountains of Big Sky Country. They show us how natural beauty and hardship are two sides of the same coin, and how sometimes the only way to cure heartache is to visit the great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverbend Publishing 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978.6 MILStarr, Mirabai
Summary: We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of years--but the feminine is rising. "Seeds of feminine wisdom that have been quietly germinating underground are now breaking through the surface," writes Mirabai Starr. "Women everywhere are rising to the collective call to step up and repair our broken Earth. And we are activating a paradigm shift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2019
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Summary: Presents a fictionalized version of the life of Satchel Paige, who began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s and who, although kept out of the major leagues for years by Jim Crow laws, went on to become a world-class athlete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Jump at the Sun 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PAIStarr, Dwaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 STAStarr, Michael
Contents: Introduction -- Every word he said was funny -- The funniest dishwasher on this earth -- Redd Foxx looked better on a marquee -- I gave it to them funky -- The king of the party records -- It's not easy out there -- Los Angeles is a rotten town for nightlife -- Sanford and son -- The godfather of sitcom -- The way it is, I'm still in slavery -- A cross between Disneyland and a circus -- Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOXX, REDD STBeyer, Jinny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5941 BEYJohnson, Jinny.
Summary: A portrait of nineteen different animals, including man, from their inner skeleton to their outer form. An enthralling and instructive "inside-outside" book.Biology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Kids 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 596.0471 JOHStahr, Celia
Summary: "The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020