Rajczak, Michael
Summary: The 2015 drought in California continually made national news—but it’s not the only place that’s battled a lack of water in recent years. Droughts disrupt the water cycle, crop production, and the everyday lives of people and animals living in the region. Can they be prevented? Readers are introduced to why droughts happen and how they’re dealt with when they do. An emphasis on conservation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 RAJCobb, Vicki.
Summary: Fireworks make any celebration a major event. Oohs and aahs accompany the spectacular light and sound show. But fireworks have a secret. Behind the fire and aerial displays is a lot of science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 662.1 COBTallarico, Tony
Contents: Find Freddie & Lisa in the haunted house -- Monster madness -- Find Frankie and his monster friends -- Creepy castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kidsbooks 2006
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E TalContents: Sign of the judgement ; Lay down body (McIntosh County Shouters) -- Lay down body ; Run, Mary, run, you got a right to the tree of life (Seniorlites) -- One morning soon ; I wanna go where Jesus is ; You better run to the city of refuge (Rev. C.J. Johnson and family) -- I heard the voice of Jesus say ; Give me Jesus ; I am a soldier in the army of the Lord (United Southern Prayer Band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRContents: Jesus is on the mainline (Gospel Harmonettes) -- Ye that is without sin, cast the first stone (Brother John Hale) -- Nobody knows the trouble I see ; A charge to keep I have (Pool Brothers) -- There'll be singing over yonder (Century Gospel Singers) -- Nearer, my God, to thee (Four Eagles Quartet) -- Put your trust in Jesus (Angelic Harmonizers) -- Who'll be a witness (for my Lord?) (Golden...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRSummary: Segment one of this program presents Rodin's The Kiss, Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, and Picasso's The Three Dancers to chart the progression of distortion as a means of expressing more than what a figurative subject can represent. Segment two uses Kandinsky's Cossacks and Pollock's Summertime: Number 9A to illustrate how color, line, and shape communicate ideas and emotions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Pryor, Shawn
Summary: Villain Cynthia Cyber has trapped The Gamer's friends in her dangerous Power Combat video game, so if he can not rescue his friends in just ten minutes, they will be stuck in the electronic world forever as monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYPryor, Shawn
Summary: Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYPryor, Shawn
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant uses the special device given him by the Gaming Masters of the Universe to become The Gamer, and fights evil Cynthia Cyber's latest creation, a monster named Currency, who is robbing banks to get Cynthia the money she needs to build a machine that will give her control over the whole human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYPryor, Shawn
Summary: When Cynthia Cyber pulls the Terror Beast out of the digital world and sends it out to attack Crescent City with nightmares, it is up to Tyler in his secret identity as The Gamer to overcome his own fears and defeat the monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYSummary: Segment one of this program offers Marcel Duchamp's urinal-cum-readymade Fountain, Michael Craig-Martin's glass of water entitled Oak Tree, and Rebecca Horn's Concert for Anarchy, a grand piano suspended upside-down, as an invitation to look at everyday things in a new way. Segment two introduces minimalism through Carl Andre's brick pile Equivalent VIII and Cornelia Parker's Thirty Pieces of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Segment one of this program examines the unidealized human form with Lucian Freud's nude Standing by the Rags, Arman's mixed-media sculpture Condition of Women I, and John Coplans' nude Frieze No. 2, 4 Panels. Segment two grapples with physical abuse and racial and sexual stereotyping through Nan Goldin's Nan One Month after Being Battered, Sonia Boyce's From Tarzan to Rambo Etc., and Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Segment one of this program uses four paintings by Mondrian to track his migration from impressionistic and abstract landscapes to the pure geometry of Neo-Plasticism. Segment two employs Brancusi's Fish, Dame Barbara Hepworth's Pelagos, and Joseph Beuys' The End of the Twentieth Century to analyze how abstract sculptors represent nature. Segment three explores Richard Long's fascination with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Segment one of this program addresses the anxiety and suffering surrounding World War I through Sir William Orpen's Zonnebeke, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Bird Swallowing a Fish, and Max Beckman's Carnival. Segment two reflects on the fear and anguish of World War II with Salvador Dali's Mountain Lake and Francis Bacon's triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. Segment three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: There is a balm in Gilead -- We shall walk through the valley in peace -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- I've been buked and I've been scorned -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Joshua fit de battle -- Wade in the water -- Deep river -- Listen to the lambs -- Everytime I feel the spirit -- Oh freedom -- Gospel train -- I'm a-rolling through an unfriendly world -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AMEHealy, Christopher
Summary: The princes and princesses flee from bounty hunters when they are wrongly accused of the murder of Briar Rose, who was killed as part of a nefarious plot to seize control over the thirteen kingdoms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waldon Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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Summary: Walter the dog creates problems with his farts but becomes a hero when burglars enter the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frog 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KOTStevens, Phillip H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 9650
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.1 STEKelly, Jacqueline
Summary: "In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Kelly 2015Magson, Adrian.
Summary: When a drug bust on the Essex coast commanded by MI5 agent Harry Tate goes bad, resulting in the deaths of a member of his team and two civilians, Harry's superiors post him to Red Station (located in Georgia near South Ossetia), where agents who have committed serious errors are tucked away from the eyes of the press. Harry soon figures out that the job is a sham and that those agents who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGStout, Dan.
Summary: With the return of spring, new life floods into Titanshade. The sun climbs higher and stays longer, the economy is ascendant, and ever more newcomers arrive to be part of the city's rebirth. Even pop culture has taken notice, with a high-profile concert only days away. When a band member's murder threatens to delay the show, the diva star performer demands that the famous Detective Carter work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOBaron, Cynthia.
Summary: Provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a digital portfolio, explaining how to convert a traditional print format into a digital format of CDs, DVDs, and Web sites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Riders 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.6 BARYancey, Richard
Summary: Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds people together is gone. Cassie and her friends haven't seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: When we last saw Nancy Harmon, tragedy had struck her family as she suffered through the heartbreak of her first marriage, the ghastly deaths of her two children, hostile media coverage, and the harsh criminal charges against her. Nancy was forced to relocate across the country, change her name and appearance, anything that could be used to identify her controversial past. Years later, after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023