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Summary: Provides a comprehensive guide to raising teenagers and addresses issues such as positive communication, setting limits, peer pressure, sex, encouragement, choosing the right college or career, and letting go.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.845 YATSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, which their humans are blissfully unaware of. The film follows Mr. Tinkle's (a cat) plan to destroy a new vaccine, that if developed, would eliminate all human allergies to dogs, and allow cats to rule the world. Lou, a beagle puppy accidentally becomes the dog-agent assigned to stop the cat plan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CATSummary: Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I NOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I NOWAlexander, Susie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Materials 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5941 ALESummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Maggie Eliot Raynham is afraid that she has bitten off more than she can chew. She has agreed to review and update a card catalogue of garden plants. One hundred and thirty years of garden plants. The project was mischievously proposed by her husband, Thomas, and the records pertain to the gardens of Beaumatin, his estate in the Cotswolds. Maggie has hardly started her task when billionaire...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Professor Maggie Eliot has returned to her position at Oxford after a sabbatical year and is finding it difficult to balance the demands of her job with being a newlywed. Then, before she has the time to see if she can adjust, the wife of her friend and colleague Stephen Draycott is found dead, the victim of a bathtub slip and fall. Kitty Draycott had recently left her husband and claimed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALESuzman, James
Summary: An anthropological study of the role of work in human evolution challenges deeply held assumptions to explain the different ways our ancient ancestors conducted and regarded work prior to the eras of migration, food production, and city development.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.09 SUZAlexander, Susan
Summary: "Maggie Eliot has a problem. The American academic is supposed to be writing a book during a sabbatical year from her position at Oxford and has come down with a bad case of writer's block. Her friend Anne arranges for Maggie to borrow a cottage in a picturesque village in the Cotswolds, where she can write without distractions... Then Maggie and Anne discover a brutal murder."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: To Oxford professor Maggie Eliot, it seems everyone she knows is pregnant. The women in her husband's family. The daughters of her friends. Her colleagues and her colleagues' wives. Too old to have children herself, Maggie finds the situation raises issues she thought had long since been resolved. Then two murders occur at her Oxford college and neither victim is a likely homicide candidate....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738 ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: It’s snowdrop season and Maggie Eliot is on a mission. The previous summer three people she knew died. The coroner ruled the first a suicide, the second a murder and the third an accident. Around the same time as the deaths, a number of very valuable snowdrops disappeared. Maggie is convinced that all three victims were murdered and that she knows who was behind both the killings and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Professor Margaret Spence Eliot thought life was finally beginning to settle down after a year of personal upheaval that included getting married, accepting a new position at Oxford and having some other adventures. Then she meets Jersey Jones, a new media celebrity famous for her cable TV show, Jersey Jones and the New World Order. Jersey has come to England to interview Maggie's friend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Professor Maggie Eliot is getting married, even though she has serious qualms. They're not about Thomas, the man she is marrying. She admits she is completely besotted. They're more about the getting married bit. However, Thomas' attitude is, "Let's get married. Then we'll sort out whatever still needs sorting." Of course, Thomas has had practice. He is a widower and also the 28th Baron...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Seven thousand, six hundred fairy lights, a rare snowdrop, and murder. It's Christmastime at Beaumatin, the Cotswold estate of the Barons Raynham. Oxford Professor Maggie Eliot is looking forward to spending the festive season there with her husband Thomas, who is also the current baron. Unfortunately, Thomas' daughter from his first marriage, Constance, has chosen to have a Christmas wedding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALESummary: After deadly terrorists abduct his niece at a soccer match, an ex-soldier with lethal fighting skills wages a one-man war to save her and prevent mass destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINAlexander, Susan
Summary: It is high summer in the Cotswolds and newly-wed Maggie Eliot would be enjoying the season more if only she were less stressed out. There is the book she is writing whose deadline is approaching. There is the project of creating a database of the plantings in the gardens of her husband Thomas' estate she is trying to finish in time for his birthday. There is the imminent descent of two of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: It is obvious to Father Bob that the Occupy London movement is coming to an end and soon the protestors will be forced to leave the great square in front of Saint Paul's. The self-styled clergyman has been enjoying the notoriety of the past weeks and is looking for a way to extend the status quo for himself as well as the small band of young followers he has attracted. Then he meets a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: Maggie Eliot, Appleton Fellow for Global Issues at Merrion College, Oxford, is having an eventful sabbatical year. She has overcome writer's block, fallen in love and gotten married. She is now enjoying summer with her husband Thomas, who is also the 28th Baron Raynham, at Beaumatin, his Cotswolds estate. Thomas takes Maggie to visit St Margaret's House, a residence for Benedictine nuns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000