Watts, Duncan J.
Summary: Discusses how the concept of common sense is inadequate in an increasingly complex world and draws on multiple disciplines to offer insight into the sources of such topics as popularity, economics, and self-deception.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Homeward Bound: A fun-loving bulldog, a wise old golden retriever, and a hilarious Himalayan cat travel through the rugged Sierras in a search for their missing human family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOMJ Duncan
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Grass Music Co. 1957
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWacks, Peter J.
Summary: "When Halley's Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular-and disastrous-than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What's more, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WACMattis, James N.
Summary: "Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MATTIS MATDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day, and turns up dead. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian who has lived in North Wales for almost twenty-five years. When Penny notices that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DUNDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: When the up-and-coming new British director for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" is found dead, a presumed suicide, costume designer Charlotte Fairfax investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: "The fifth in this enchanting Welsh series which has been likened to the work of Dorothy Cannell and M. C. Beaton Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: Penny Brannigan and her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk, are absorbed with the grand opening of their new spa. Meanwhile, an American stranger, Harry Saunders, arrives in town and sweeps widow Evelyn Lloyd off her feet. Some suspect Saunders is taking advantage of Evelyn, so it's no surprise when he goes missing with a healthy chunk of Evelyn's money and is eventually found dead outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: M DUNDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: This witty and wise work is the first in Elizabeth J. Duncan's charming new mystery series. A Catskills resort's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed. Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? It seems like just about everyone had a motive to pull the ropes on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Smith, Duncan J. D.
Summary: A practical guide and a handsome tribute to one of Europe’s most fascinating cities. Published by The Urban Explorer these city tales from new and unusual perspectives provide independent travelers with unforgettable memories. Ideal for those who want to escape the crowds and get beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Urban Explorer 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Duncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: In the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, Penny Brannigan discovers a package of letters that reveal Emma's lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDuncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show as town and country folk gather for the outdoor judging of farm animals and indoor judging of cakes, pies, pastries, chutneys, jams and jellies, along with vegetables, fruit and flowers. But this year, there's a new show category: murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Duncan, Elizabeth J.
Summary: "A Catskills resort's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed. Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? Who wouldn't? Seems like just about everyone had a motive to pull the ropes on her final curtain call"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSummary: An iconic 18-track lineup of memorable eighties hits, including Rick Springfield's Jessie's Girl; A-Ha's Take on Me; Journey's Separate Ways; Duran Duran's Rio; and many more!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPEPitts, J. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITDunham, Betty J. (Betty Jane)
Summary: History of Oliver Township, Kalkaska, Michigan including over 85 photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B.J. Dunham 1985
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37746 DunhamCall number: R NEL 977.465 Dunham
Watts, Naomi
Summary: While vacationing in Thailand in December 2004, a family overcomes impossible odds to survive the Indian Ocean tsunami and find each other after becoming separated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPSummary: Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY MYDuncan, Dennis (Dennis J. B.)
Summary: "Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022