L'Engle, Madeleine
Summary: "This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut. In a selection of eighteen stories discovered by one of L'Engle's granddaughters, we see how L'Engle's personal experiences and abiding faith informed the creation of her many cherished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC L'ENCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC L'ENJones, Charlotte Foltz
Summary: "Do you know how many things in your daily life were invented by accident? SANDWICHES came about when an English earl was too busy gambling to eat his meal and needed to keep one hand free. POTATO CHIPS were first cooked by a chef who was furious when a customer complained that his fried potatoes weren't thin enough. Coca-Cola, Silly Putty, and X rays have fascinating stories behind them too!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 609 JONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 609 JONJones, Charlotte Foltz.
Summary: Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miss Marple solves mysteries set against a rich background of grand English estates, gorgeous scenery, and post-WWII period detail. The mirror crack'd from side to side: Hollywood star Marina Gregg has moved into Gossington Hall. When Marina and her dashing young husband host a party for the village, a garrulous fan drops dead after drinking a poisoned cocktail. The secrets of Chimneys: Miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANGContents: Disc one. Lolita / A.R. Kane -- Sloppy heart / Frazier Chorus -- With Louise / Area -- When I'm an astronaut / Louis Philippe -- I'll remember / The Chameleons -- In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings / Dead Can Dance -- Hay fever / 14 Iced Bears -- Eden / Talk Talk -- Tar baby / Shelleyan Orphan -- A dream of love / Ultra Vivid Scene -- Drugs / This Mortal Coil -- Pop song / David...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHESummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: On the streets of seventeenth century Paris, law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII's personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and their new friend D'Artagnan, stand resolutely for social justice, honor, valor, love, and for the thrill of it all. They must fight to maintain order and protect their King and Queen against the worst intentions of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUSSummary: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Quiet 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QuSummary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLEDopes
Contents: Tomorrow -- Rockstar -- How I wonder -- Farmer Pete -- Time chasers -- Come a little closer -- Fireball -- Peaceman -- Smoke -- Big red -- Jumpstart
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jaystar
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DOPSummary: Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip newly converted apartment building in the heart of Leeds. The high quality rental apartments offer stylish 21st century living, but behind the facade lie unimaginable horrors, for this former pre-Victorian asylum is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEDDoves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DOVRodgers, Richard
Contents: Overture (4:51) -- Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (2:35) -- The surrey with the fringe on top (4:52) -- Kansas City (2:34) -- I cain't say no (3:09) -- Many a new day (3:08) -- People will say we're in love (4:20) -- Poor Jud is dead (4:15) -- Out of my dreams (2:23) -- The farmer and the cowman (2:57) -- All er nothin' (2:58) -- Oklahoma (3:16).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway/Angel Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC OAKSummary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRAJones, Janey
Summary: When Basil the bear cub falls into the river, it is up to the superfairies to rescue him before he gets swept over the waterfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2016
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Summary: It is autumn in Peaseblossom Woods and time for the arrival of the Copper Queen and her masked dance--but when Basil the bear cub falls down a hole and the wind covers the forest in falling leaves, it is up to the Superfairies to rescue him, with some help from the Copper Queen herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JONJones, Janey
Summary: When the Autumn Queen ushers in a big storm, and little Martha Mouse is swept away by the big wind, it is up to the Superfairies to rescue her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JONJones, Janey
Summary: It is time for the winter Sparkle Ball, so when Billy the badger has the Snow Fairy's crown snatched from his paws by a greedy magpie, who loves sparkly things, it is up to the Superfairies to retrieve it and save the Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: While collecting pinecones for the winter feast, Violet Rabbit accepts the dare to ski down Snowdrop Slove, starts an avalanche and ends up on very thin ice--so it is up to the Superfairies to rescue her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the Silver Surfer arrives on Earth, army General Hager demands that Reed Richards create a sensor to track him and find out what he's doing on Earth. The only problem is that Richards is helping Sue Storm plan their rescheduled wedding. Ben Grimm is heating up his relationship with Alicia and Johnny Storm is trying to get sponsorships and girls. Returning is Victor Von Doom, who gladly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Evanovich, Janet.
Summary: Inheriting the local B & B--and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney--in Beaumont, South Carolina, Annie Fortenberry finds her life complicated by rumors of a prank-playing ghost, millionaire Max Holt's upcoming wedding, enigmatic stranger Wes Bridges, and her murdered ex-husband, a crime in which Annie has become the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006