Summary: Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy who helped shape the digital landscape of today. He helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit. Chronicling his pioneering efforts crusading for open access and free speech and the resulting legal nightmare and tragedy that ensued, the documentary is a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant tech millionaire who renounced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTSummary: Nineteen graduates of the Class of '69 of the all women's Skidmore College discuss what it was like to live through the tumultuous era of the late '60s and how the experience defined and empowered them as women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOMSummary: In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NOT RATEDSummary: This season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove. There, he confronts Ruby only to find that she too is now a victim of evil, and needs Ash's help. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance to give them a chance of success, as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ASHSummary: Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Roosevelt's childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRSummary: Kenai, a young Native American boy who wants to be a man, sets out to take revenge after his older brother is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. When Kenai finds himself magically transformed into the creature he hates most, a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps while learning some life lessons. In his quest to return to human form, he is befriended by a talkative bear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BROSummary: Ash is the stock boy, who is an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons; personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its "Evil" grip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ASHContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRESwartz, Katharine
Summary: Jane's British husband Andrew decides to relocate from New York to a small village on Britain's Cumbrian coast, buying a vast and crumbling former vicarage. Jane has a hard time adjusting and then finds a scrap of an old shopping list and becomes fascinated with Alice James, who lived in the vicarage decades before.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASwartz, Mimi
Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAZIER, O. HOWARD SWAChaplin, Amy
Summary: "Eating whole foods can transform a diet, and mastering the art of cooking these foods can be easy with the proper techniques and strategies. In 20 chapters, Chaplin shares ingenious recipes incorporating the foods that are key to a healthy diet: seeds and nuts, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and other plant-based foods. Chaplin offers her secrets for eating healthy every day: mastering...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.3Swartz, Elly
Summary: Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade--until one summer when everything changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SWASwartz, Elly
Summary: "To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is: the number four; the tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil; a crisp white pad of paper; her neatly aligned glass animal figurines. What's not perfect is Molly's mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The debut cookbook from the powerhouse blogger behind theblendergirl.com, featuring 100 gluten-free, vegan recipes for smoothies, meals, and more made quickly and easily in a blender. What's your perfect blend? On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters--aka, The Blender Girl--shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess's lively, down-to-earth approach...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5893 MASAkron/Family
Contents: Silly bears -- Island -- A AAA O A WAY -- So it goes -- Another sky -- Light emerges -- Cast a net -- Tatsuya neon purple walkby -- Fuji I (Global dub) -- Say what you want to -- Fuji II (Single pane) -- Canopy -- Creator.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AKRApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPYaron, Ruth.
Summary: Presents more than three hundred recipes along with information on such topics as food allergies, kitchen equipment, methods of freezing and thawing, vitamin and mineral supplements, and food decorating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F.J. Roberts Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 YARSummary: A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAK NOT RATEDCaron, Lucille.
Summary: A guide to unraveling the mysteries of decimals and fractions, whether you are learning them for the first time or brushing up on your skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 CARAcemoglu, Daron.
Summary: Evaluates the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about the importance of institutions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ACESánchez, Aarón
Summary: Chef and television personality Aarón Sánchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to ups and downs in New York City's ever-changing restaurant scene, and ultimately to the dizzying world of food television, Sánchez draws...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, AARON SANSummary: A group of underdog kids discover their beloved summer camp has been sold to a crazy fitness fanatic who's determined to make their lives miserable. The kids unite to turn the tables, take back their woodsy hideaway and challenge the rival camp to the most outrageous summer games of all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HEASummary: Arriving in 1924, Pesachʹke Burstein, the dancing-singing comedian, quickly became a leading figure in the Golden Era of Yiddish theater. On stage, he would meet, fall in love with and eventually marry raising star Lillian Lux. Embarking together on triumphant overseas tours as a couple, they soon became the parents of twins. Before long the children, Mike and Susan, were given stage names and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004