Wheatle, Alex
Summary: "In 1668, fifteen-year-old Kemosha is sold by a slave owner to a tavern keeper in Port Royal, Jamaica--the "wickedest city on earth." She soon flees from a brutal assault and finds herself in the company of a mysterious free Black man, Ravenhide, who teaches her the fine art of swordplay, introduces her to her soul mate, Isabella, and helps her win her freedom. Ravenhide is a privateer for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Sheep, c/o Akashic Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHESummary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Oldham, Matthew
Summary: A great introduction for young children to ever-popular topics, with charming pictures and simple text perfect for reading and talking about with young children. Topics covered include Our World, Space, Science, My Body, Animals, Dinosaurs and Long Ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 032.02 OLDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach EncySummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRHeatley, Michael
Summary: This is the ideal guide for those, perhaps starting out in a band, who need to know quickly and simply how to develop the appropriate styles needed to play lead guitar in a rock band. Starting with invaluable information on the background, sounds and guitars of rock, the reader is then provided with description and instruction on the various guitar techniques that can be used. The main section...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Publishing 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Richard Greene once again takes up the bow and brings to life the stories of this classic literary character featured in this entertaining program from the 1950's. robin hood, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and the rest of the Merry Men continue their efforts to thwart the forces of the Sheriff of Nottingham and bring hope to the citizens of Nottingham. Robin Hood and his fellow Sherwood Forest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ADVSummary: Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: This classic television series ran from 1955 to 1960, featuring the tales of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Richard Greene stars as our gallant hero who fought the forces of the evil Prince John, his local official the Sheriff of Nottingham and any aristocrat or ne'er-do-well who threatened the common people and loyal subjects of King Richard. Robin and his band lived in the shelter of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ADVWheatley, Abigail
Summary: "From atoms to X-rays and from the Big Bang to the Internet, brilliant breakthroughs by successful scientists have changed the world again and again. Dip inside this book to read the stories of 100 scientists and their amazing discoveries..." -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM WheatleyAdem.
Contents: Statued -- Ringing in my ear -- Gone away -- Cut -- These are your friends -- Everything you need -- Long drive home -- Pillow -- One in a million -- There will always be.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AdemAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienAlai
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALASummary: A film of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS UNCSummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMWheatley, Abigail
Summary: This is a non-fiction book for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623 WHEWheatley, Abigail.
Summary: Introduces the study of human material remains from the past; describes the materials archaeologists examine and the techniques they use; illustrates important finds by continent; and includes a timeline and glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub.] 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930.1 WHEAndrews, Alexa.
Summary: Pigs live on a farm. Apples grow on a farm. Tractors dive on a farm. What else might you find on a farm?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Scott, Alev
Summary: "An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East."--Amazon.com summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 SCOŠteger, Aleš.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.8 STESilva, Alen.
Summary: "Basque-born photographer Alen Silva has travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture. He brought back these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins--of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him."--Page 4 of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Arts & Open Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SilvaSummary: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Avengers 2018Wheaton, Mark
Summary: Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEWhittle, Richard.
Summary: "The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2014