Sylvester, Simon
Summary: Nobody comes to the remote Scottish island of Bancree, and seventeen-year-old Flora cant wait to move to the mainland when she finishes school. So when a mysterious man and his daughter move into isolated Dog Cottage, Flora is curious. What could have brought these strangers to the island? The man is seductive but radiates menace, while Flo finds a kindred spirit in his daughter, Ailsa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARVarious Artists.
Contents: Hot fingers (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (2:56) -- A handful of riffs (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (3:05) -- Work ox blues (Texas Alexander) (3:16) -- I'm busy and you can't come in (Sylvester Weaver) (3:18) -- Georgia rag (Blind Willie McTell as Georgia Bill) (2:54) -- Warm it up to me (Blind Willie McTell as Blind Willie) (2:54) -- Untitled (Sylvester Weaver) (3:10) -- Untitled (Sylvester...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES GRESummary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAPSummary: In the year 2000, America's national sport is the Death Race, a cross-country excursion in which contestants rack up points by killing innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, a revolution is brewing, and rebels disrupt the televised competition in an attempt to overthrow the morally bankrupt President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DEASolti, Georg Sir
Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIMSummary: When Mr. Church decides to reunite the Expendables, and one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EXPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EXPSirom
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SIRHaring, Keith.
Contents: For the same man (B Beat Girls) -- It's music (Damon Harris) -- Danger (Pylon) -- Pak man (the Jonzun Crew) -- Love money (Funk Masters) -- Bump and grind it (John Sex) -- Over and over (12" disco mix) (Sylvester) -- Jeffrey I hear you (the Girls) -- Jam hot (Johnny Dynell) -- I Zimbra (Talking Heads) -- Sortie 134 (part 2) (Art Zoyd) -- Weekend (Larry Levan mix) (Class Action) -- Chuka-ja (Get...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSylvester, Kevin
Summary: Gargantua Junior wants to protect Earth from space robots like her mother, who had a reputation for being wild in her youth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYLSilvester, Trevor.
Summary: Quizzes direct readers to eight different bird personalities and unique emotional styles, while providing profiles for various couplings and advice for building a lasting relationship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.872 SILJudd, Sylvester.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H.R. Huntting 1905
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744 JuddSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Spoon
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPOSylvester, Kevin
Summary: "Our cellphones, our clothes, our food: All are everyday things we consider essential, but we seldom think of what and who is involved in making them and getting them into our hands. In Follow Your Stuff, award-winning children's author Kevin Sylvester and business professor Michael Hlinka team up again, this time to tackle the complex dynamics of the global economy, examining the often complex...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 SYLSylvester, Kevin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press, Ltd. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Sports SylvesterSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLSimone.
Contents: Começar de novo = To begin again : The island (3:42) -- Canôa canôa = Canoe, canoe (3:51) -- Reis e rainhas do Maracatu = Kings and queens of Maracatu (2:55) -- Então vale a pena = Then it was worth it (4:07) -- Itamarandiba (3:16) -- Pedaço de mim = Piece of me (3:49) -- Face a face = Face to face (4:29) -- Tô voltando = I'm returning (3:56) -- Valso rancho = Carnival waltz (3:26) -- Cigarra =...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI-Odeon 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SIMNicolaides, Kimon
Contents: Contour and gesture -- The comprehension of gesture -- Weight and the modelled drawing -- Memory drawing and other quick studies -- The modelled drawing in ink-the daily composition -- The modelled drawing in water color-right-angle study -- Emphasis on contour-the head -- Special form studies -- An approach to the subject of technique -- The simple proportions-effort -- The study of drapery --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 NicolaidesAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADASylvester, Natalia
Summary: "Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLSylvester, Natalia
Summary: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLMills, Simeon
Summary: "A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books 2019