Parker, James
Summary: "Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly minor, unexpected, and hyperspecific ("Ode to Running in Movies"). Finally collecting Parker's beloved and much-lauded odes in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Aurelius Music 1970
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HISSummary: No longer the new girl in town, Mary has come to think of the newsroom staff as family. But along with the good times and close friendships come the often trying and ultimately hilarious situations every family faces. From Mary explaining the facts of life to Phyllis' daughter to going on a blind date to attending her disastrous high school reunion, Mary has to cope with every situation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELFarrar, Jay
Contents: Hoping machine -- Fly high -- My revolutionary mind -- V.D. City -- Old L.A. -- Talking empty bed blues -- Chorine -- Careless reckless love -- Angel's blues -- No fear -- Changing world -- New multitudes -- Bonus disc. Around New York ; Jake walk blues ; Whereabouts can I hide ; Old kokaine ; I was a goner ; San Antone Meat House ; Dopefiend robber ; World's on fire ; When I get home ; Atom...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FARSummary: Based on Michael Dobbs' best-selling novel about a man who schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals, and the bodies of those who oppose him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOUColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: When a popular cheerleader dies of a suspected overdose, Police Chief Stone battles school administrators, teachers, distrustful students, and overprotective parents as he tries to unravel the drug supply chain and expose the criminals behind it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Coleman 2019Contents: Disc I. Prelude / Schifrin (5:54) -- 'Bout to wail / Gillespie ; arr. by Buster Harding (6:46) -- Umbrella man / Larry Stock ; James Cavanaugh ; Vincent Rose (3:00) -- The chains / Schifrin (9:09) -- Birk's works / Gillespie ; arr. by Ernie Wilkins (4:56) -- Stella by starlight / Victor Young ; Ned Washington (4:05) -- Dizzy's business / Wilkins ; arr. by Wilkins (3:36) -- Autumn leaves /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GILContents: CD 1: Sing a song (Inez Andrews) -- Looking for my Lord (Harold Bailey Singers) -- I'll fight for the right (J.M. Bell & Robinson Ensemble) -- Traveling to that city (Harold Bowen Singers) -- Jackie, don't you weep (Butler-Aires-Little Junior) -- Steal away (Caravans/James Cleveland & Albertina Walker) -- Where could I go (Christland Singers) -- Swing low, sweet chariot (Christine Clark) -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Narroway Productions 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUMaclaine, James
Summary: This book reveals the world's many varieties of lizards, from tiny geckos that could fit on your fingertips to fearsome Komodo dragons. Discover which lizards swim in the sea, why some lizards change the colour of their skin, and how one type of lizard uses its extraordinary blue tongue to stay safe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal Usb MaclaineParker, Junior.
Contents: Feelin' good ; Fussin' and fightin' blues (Junior Parker) -- My baby ; Straighten up baby (James Cotton) -- Love my baby ; Mystery train (Junior Parker) -- Grandmother got grandfather told ; In the mood (Walter Horton) -- Feel so bad ; Sittin' at the window (Junior Parker) -- Harmonica jam ; Wolf call boogie (Coy "Hot Shot" Love) -- Sittin' at the bar ; Sittin' drinkin' and thinkin' (Junior...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group, Ltd. 2002
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PARRich, Simon.
Summary: A collection of nine short stories by well-known American authors. From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent sessions of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts."--Publisher description.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: In 12th century England, the infant king is usurped by the wicked King Roderick. Black Fox and his band attempt to restore the rightful king to the throne by having a member of their group infiltrate the court by posing as the jester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COUBrandman, Michael.
Summary: "The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRASummary: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOGPatterson, James
Summary: When a rich stockbroker is found dead, the police deem it suicide. Until suspicious facts start to point the finger at three women, who have all gone missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATSummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENBrandman, Michael.
Summary: Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season?--but not this time. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and scared out of her wits that her estranged husband's jealousy might take a dangerous turn. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRASummary: Following a mysterious absence of several years, the man of Steel returns to Earth. While archenemy Lex Luthor plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the realization that Lois Lane has moved on with her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SUPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SUPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Superman 6Hesse, Karen.
Summary: A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a young woman and the kidnapping of a young man from a wealthy family, only to find connections to his own troubled past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jen, is about to marry a Dallas real estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. Those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLLupica, Mike.
Summary: When a body is found at the lake in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim. The man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls dropping off the mysterious stranger outside...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020