Summary: Part 1, The rise of the dog, examines the relationship between dogs and humans, from their initial domestication to the present day. Part 2, Dogs by design, examines the many different breeds of dogs, and how modern technology is changing the science of dog breeding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DOGSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSChen, Da
Summary: Follows the divergent lives of two brothers, sons of a powerful general and born at the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, as their fates collide when they unwittingly fall for the same woman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHEIda
Contents: Zydeco -- Gator Man -- C'est moi -- Love is the answer -- La bas 2 step -- I-10 express -- Dancing on the bayou -- The rangers waltz -- Hard headed woman -- Lady be mine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GNP Crescendo 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN QUEFIRKINS, INA TEN EYCK, COMP.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1927
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.82 FIRIda
Contents: Capitaine Gumbo (3:35) -- Grand Basile (2:58) -- Mazuka (2:55) -- La Louisiane (2:58) -- P'tit fille O'Paradis (3:08) -- Madame Ben (2:33) -- Bayou polka (2:56) -- Corps solide (2:29) -- Frisco Zydeco (4:02) -- La vierge (2:57) -- La femme du Doight (3:08) -- Vieux Paris (3:39) -- C'est la vie (4:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICA QUEBen-Barak, Idan
Summary: Min is a microbe. She is small. Very small. In fact, so small that you'd need to look through a microscope to see her. Or you can simply open this book and take Min on an adventure to amazing places she's never seen before -- like the icy glaciers of your tooth or the twisted, tangled jungle of your shirt. The perfect book for anyone who wants to take a closer look at the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BENBen-Barak, Idan
Summary: "What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 BENChen, Da
Summary: Falling passionately in love with his headmaster's daughter, Samuel Pickens is devastated by her untimely death a month later and becomes convinced that her spirit will not rest until it is returned to her childhood home in nineteenth-century imperial China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESummary: 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Contents: Careless love / Bessie Smith -- Black eye blues / Ma Rainey -- Goin' crazy with the blues / Mamie Smith -- Me and my chauffeur blues / Memphis Minnie -- See see Rider / Bea Booze -- Freight train blues / Trixie Smith -- Moaning the blues / Victoria Spivey -- You gonna need my help / Sippie Wallace -- Electrician blues / Lizzie Miles -- Last mile blues / Ida Cox -- Unlucky woman / Helen Humes --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quality Audio 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WOMDunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.72 DUNBirdsong, Bea
Summary: There are so many snoots to boop! Snoots attached to big dogs and little dogs and dogs with beards and those without. Are you ready to boop ALL the snoots?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIRSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATBirdsong, Bea
Summary: In this adorable celebration of kindness and friendship, a young girl declares on her first day of school that she will find a best friend and sets out to do so.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIRBirdsong, Bea
Summary: A young girl turns her typical day at school into a quest where she is a brave explorer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIREn Attendant Ana
Contents: Intro -- (Not) so hard -- Night -- Re -- This could be -- Why is your body so hard to carry? -- The violence inside -- Tinkle twinkle -- Square one -- I don't even know your name
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trouble in Mind Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The story of friendly underachiever David Wozniak, whose ordinary life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014