Volandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging VolandesSummary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYSummary: Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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4 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NATCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NAT RATED PGAnger, Ernest E.
Summary: A personal research account by Ernest Anger of Wetzell [Wetzel], Michigan. The date in which this was complied is unknown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ernest E. Anger 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.485 AngerSummary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLWhite, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 WHISummary: "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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Summary: E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: "Commuter" and "Critic," both published in the New Yorker in 1925.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 974.71 WHIHauber, Mark E.
Summary: "From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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Summary: "SADIE meets WE WERE LIARS in this heartfelt mystery, in which one girl desperately searches to find out what happened to her missing sister. Teddy’s favorite place is Bottomrock Lake, where sunfish swim in their little saucer nests and lilypads edge the shore. She’s worked there as a lifeguard every summer, including last year, when her twin sister Izzy waded into the lake for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEESummary: Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WILSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAK NOT RATEDD'Angelo
Contents: Ain't that easy (4:49) -- 1000 deaths (5:49) -- The charade (3:20) -- Sugah daddy (5:02) -- Really love (5:44) -- Back to the future (part 1) (5:22) -- Till it's done (Tutu) (3:51) -- Prayer (4:32) -- Betray my heart (5:55) -- The door (3:08) -- Bacl to the future (part II) (2:24) -- Another life (5:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES D'ANVolandes, Stellene
Summary: Presents the history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.7 VOLD'Angelo
Summary: The debut effort by the 21-year-old D'Angelo focuses on classic versions of soul and R & B. Includes the single Brown Sugar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES D'ANAngelo, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 ANGBadalamenti, Angelo.
Contents: Laurens, Iowa (2:45) -- Rose's theme (2:55) -- Laurens walking (4:11) -- Sprinkler (2:56) -- Alvin's theme (4:25) -- Final miles (4:06) -- Country waltz (2:46) -- Rose's theme (variation) (3:07) -- Country theme (3:38) -- Crystal (4:07) -- Nostalgia (6:51) -- Farmland tour (3:09) -- Montage (7:24).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC STRAngelo, Frank.
Summary: Text and approximately 400 historical photographs trace the history of Michigan from the earliest settlement to the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 ANGBadalamenti, Angelo.
Contents: Main title/The trenches (4:54) -- First love touch (3:55) -- Heartbeat to a gunshot (4:28) -- Mathilde's theme (4:19) -- Secret code (5:01) -- Elodie's theme (2:44) -- Kissing through glass (2:07) -- Massage fantasy (2:24) -- Never had the child (2:24) -- The man from Corsica (2:42) -- Our solders' letters (2:44) -- Why do you cry? (2:18) -- End titles (6:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC VERAngell, Roger.
Summary: "The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. It goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche." "Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition - marked by league...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGChiaverilla, AnnieMarie E.
Summary: A colorful fun journey for the whole family! Travel through the state of Michigan with a family of field mice, lead by Pirate Paul and Ana Mae Mouse. Learn not just the state symbols but travel through the months and see some of the unique and beautiful places that make Michigan great! Written and Illustrated by AnnieMarie E. Chiaverilla her first in the series The Twelve Months. Enjoy the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Pear Tree Press, Inc. 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC CHIPerrow, Angeli
Summary: A fictionalized account of how Spot, a springer spaniel living on Penobscot Bay in the 1930's, loves to ring the lighthouse bell, and uses that skill to guide the mailboat safely through a storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PERAngelos, James
Summary: "A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 ANGAngell, Roger.
Contents: On the ball -- Starting to belong -- Buttercups rampant -- Stories for a rainy afternoon -- Season lightly -- Three for the Tigers -- Mets redux -- Landscape, with figures -- How the West was won -- Sunny side of the street -- Gone for good -- The companions of the game -- Agincourt and after -- In the counting house -- Scout -- Cast a cold eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004