Summary: Wonderwoman, Thief Catcher, and Invisible Girl team up to battle the baby stealing Demon-Lord of the Underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERTai, Elaine
Summary: This Kickstarter-funded picture book about consent presents various scenarios in which kids (and even adults) might feel uncomfortable, and addressing how to express and respect those boundaries and concerns. In thinking about how we teach or learn about ways we grant access to our own bodies and others', this book stems from the author's experiences as a librarian, as well as in her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAISummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMES, ROBERT BIRStrittmatter, Kai
Summary: Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter­net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4482 STRKupferschmidt, Kai
Summary: "A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world-and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535.6 KUPBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY CARBai, Xue
Summary: "Written from the perspective of children who observe the world through their windows, this book for young readers looks at the lives of housebound children during the coronavirus pandemic. Inspired by true events and people from around the world, "From My Window" shows children that we all have the same fears, and that we can overcome them by being creative and empathetic, and by staying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: United Nations Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAI(MICHIGAN CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1965
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 973.715 NEGSummary: Explores the three categories of mineral resources found within the earth (power resources, gem stones, and metals) and how they have been utilized for the advancement of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRESummary: "Rare and fascinating films preserved in the museum's archives. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. ... [These 24 training and public information films cover a] range of subjects from ditching procedures for Halifax bomber crews ... to the best way to rescue crashed fighter pilots from their cockpits. There are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROYSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYT(WAR WITH MEXICO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AMEWong, Ali
Summary: "In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WONCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WONG, ALI WONDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "A rhyming picture-book introduction to math for the very young, with visual depictions of everyday STEM applications."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 ELLDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "In the Wonder House, each room is filled with poems and objects to inspire... The rooms in this house are a road map for finding wonder--twelve rooms in all, housing twenty-nine poems and wondrous images."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 DOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DOTShang, Wendy Wan Long
Summary: Presents a song set to the tune of "The wheels on the bus," where a multigenerational family enjoys a culturally rich meal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHABar-Zohar, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: ADAMM 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.9 BARHinton, Elizabeth Kai
Summary: Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 HINKai, Hyojun Romaji.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2004