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Defoe, Daniel Feldman, David B. Gee, Darien. King, Tom Kravetz, Lee Daniel Lee, GeddyLee, Geddy
Summary: "The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The bell jar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAKravetz, Lee Daniel
Summary: "Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion. In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died by suicide by stepping in front of an oncoming train. Grief-stricken, the community mourned what they thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KRASummary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: An exploration of the success of Marvel Comics and a behind-the-scenes look at the way superheroes are produced, including Spider-Man, Captain America, and the Incredible Hulk. Includes an interview with legendary superhero creator Stan Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur Films 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 MARSummary: Directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on sixteen mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SLADefoe, Daniel
Summary: Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary existence on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco River for twenty-four years. He meets the difficulties of primitive life with ingenuity and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEFSummary: "As a musician, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, perhaps one of the greatest who ever lived, inspiring artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle. As a man, a husband, and a father his life was as tragic and as beautiful as the songs he wrote. Townes was an enigma to his family, pinned between a deep longing for home and nomadic lifestyle that was necessary for his livelihood. " --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BESummary: Two strangers meet by chance, spend a night together in Vienna, and part before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BEFSummary: Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMSummary: Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAU1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAUSummary: Editors Harris and Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations frightening, funny, and touching -- for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DEASummary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HERSummary: "They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: Perfect school: Brian O'Connor likes to play jokes on his little brother, Riley. Maybe he doesn't clean his room or make his bed enough to satisfy his parents, but that's no reason to send him away to boarding school, is it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GOOFeldman, David B.
Summary: Two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 FELKing, Tom
Summary: "In the aftermath of the wedding of Batman and Catwoman, the Dark Knight's life has changed completely. Having walked down the aisle, how will this new Bruce Wayne view himself? What is to become of Batman now?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIN RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LincolnSummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Secret agent Derek Flint fights an evil organization called Galaxy which has learned how to send icebergs crashing into the Mediterranean, to flood whole valleys and to cause volcanoes to erupt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OURGee, Darien.
Summary: "At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past ... Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie's guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon's residents come to terms with their past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEEGee, Darien.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013