Mezrich, Ben
Summary: Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers' redemption and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEZNevins, Debbie
Summary: "Cameroon is an African nation with a vast history. Its rich geology includes volcanoes, tropical areas, coastal waters, hot springs, plateaus, mountains, and rain forests. This book will help readers gain a full understanding of the country, from its history to its current state; its struggles, triumphs, and political culture; its environmental policies, variety of wildlife, and conservation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them, and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHYPopper, Nathaniel.
Summary: "A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.The notion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 POPContents: Pop Makossa invasion (Dream Stars) (4:49) -- Yaoundé girls (Mystic Djim & The Spirits) (5:57) -- Nen Lambo (Bill Loko) (6:24) -- Sanaga calypso (Pasteur Lappé) (3:47) -- M'ongele M'am (Eko) (4:03) -- Ngon Engap (Olinga Gaston) (4:22) -- Ye Medjuie (Emmanuel Kahe & Jeanette Kemogne) (4:27) -- Mininga Meyong Mese (Nkodo Si-Tony) (7:10) -- Sekele Movement (Pasteur Lappé) (6:27) -- Mussoloki...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN POPBaka Beyond (Musical group)
Contents: Woosi (6:40) -- Ancestor's voice (5:50) -- Lupé (5:43) -- Ohureo (6:50) -- Meeting of tribes (5:56) -- Journey (6:05) -- Ndaweh's dream (5:06) -- Booma lena (8:48).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKMoore, Heather B.
Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOCroucher, Lex
Summary: It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CRODouglas, Cameron
Summary: Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, CAMERON DOUSummary: In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrTongo, Jo.
Contents: Jangolo -- Funky feeling -- Piani -- Those flowers -- American lady -- Dig it baby part 1 -- Dig it babe part 2 -- Ewande -- The lion roar -- It's the d day -- Mystic power -- A'muna -- Get down and freak -- -- Get it the way I like it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TONDikongué, Henri.
Contents: Ndutu (4:29) -- Ndol'asu (5:47) -- C'est la vie (4:17) -- Na tem ité idiba (4:33) -- Na teleye owa ngea (6:12) -- We nde mba (3:43) -- Bulu bo windi tenge (3:35) -- Françoise (4:29) -- A mumi (5:47) -- Wen te mba wenge (3:45) -- Douala (2:22).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DIKCradick, Martin.
Contents: Spirit of the forest (5:30) -- The man who danced too slowly (6:04) -- Ngombi (4:43) -- Baka play Baka (7:01) -- Nahwia (5:12) -- Eeya bé (Elephant song) (7:31) -- Canya jam (5:38) -- Bounaka (6:50).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKContents: African typic collection / Sam Fan Thomas (6:38) -- Dikom Lam La Mota / Charlotte Mbango (7:16) -- Noa / Sam Fan Thomas (6:08) -- Si tcha / Sam Fan Thomas (6:15) -- Zouk en Avant / Tam Tam 2000 -- Nelson Mendela (will never give up) / Koko Ateba (4:20).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRBaka Beyond (Musical group)
Contents: Mbé (6:22) -- Migrations (8:40) -- Mountain song (6:11) -- Konti (6:39) -- Cotu (6:39) -- Land's end (5:33) -- Soiridh leis (6:12) -- Queen of Ngorongoro (5:24).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKCorrell, Robert
Summary: ""When you're investing in top-notch camera equipment, it's also time to build top-notch photography skills that help you create the stunning images you see in your mind. This book gets you started on the path to capturing incredible photos of life's most precious moments. Cut through the jargon and techspeak as you get down to the essentials of taking control of your powerful camera and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 771 CORSummary: Scooby-Doo and the gang journey back in time to help King Arthur save his throne from an evil sorceress. While there, Shaggy unwittingly pulls out Excalibur from a nearby stone to cut a block of cheese and now no one is sure who the rightful ruler is! The legendary wizard, Merlin, appears and explains that the throne of Camelot must be determined through Trial By Combat! Our heroes pull out all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOCaron, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familles Caron d'Amérique 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 CARHenry, Marian S.
Summary: "This book paints a picture of the early settlers of the Genesee Country who were among the first wave of migrants moving westward after the Revolutionary War. Author Marian Henry begins with families enumerated in the 1790 Federal Census and links these first settlers of present-day Steuben County to their eastern origins -- usually New England, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey. The sketches cover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 HenryRipley, Mike.
Summary: Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion finds himself masquerading as advisor to a very suspicious but glamorous film producer hunting for buried treasure that never was in the Suffolk villages of Sweethearting and Heronhoe, which used to host trysts between the future King Edward VIII and Mrs. Wallis Simpson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIPSummary: Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the surfaces of those who visited her Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BDurrell, Gerald Malcolm
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 285.23 CAMWheeler, Jill C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Pub. 2004