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Summary: Relativity and quantum physics touch the very basis of physical reality, altering commonsense notions of space and time, cause and effect. Both have reputations for complexity, but the basic ideas behind relativity and quantum physics are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. The essence of relativity in a single sentence: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 EIN

Linder, Joselin

Summary: A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.042 LIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDER, JOSELIN LIN

Duneier, Mitchell

Summary: On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in "il geto"--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. He argues that we cannot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307 DUN

Summary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALL

Summary: This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOO

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MEN

Summary: After Kun graduates from film school, he sets out to leave behind the fast-paced city of Beijing to film in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia where unforgettable lessons await him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STR

Watkins, D. (Dwight)

Summary: From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, with searing conviction and full compassion, D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WAT

Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO

Summary: A Pan American journey: Travel the Alaska Highway from Vancouver to Alaska, taking in the dramatic and rugged coastline, and relishing the freedom of the great North.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 Scenic

Dilts, Bryan Lee

Summary: Index for genealogists, historians, demographers, and other researchers who wish to quickly determine where specific individuals are located on the available portions of the 1848 and 1850 censuses of Canada West (approximately the same in boundaries as modern Ontario).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Index Pub. 1984

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 CEN 1848 1850

Bright, J. E.

Summary: When Brainiac uses a time machine to send members of the Justice League into the past and the future, it's up to Batman, Cyborg, and the Flash to rescue them before the supervillain attacks Earth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRI

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Set against the backdrop of the later Roman Republic, a collection of short mystery tales featuring ancient Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder follows the early career of the classical sleuth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Summary: A poor African-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOO

Summary: Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAI

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Julius Caesar, appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate, has pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends. Now Caesar is preparing to leave Rome with his legions to wage a war of conquest against the Parthian Empire. But he has a few more things to do before he goes. Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has been raised...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: "The young Gordianus has been waiting out the chaos in Alexandria, with Bethesda, when he gets a cryptic message from his former tutor and friend, Antipater. Now in Ephesus, as part of Mithridates' entourage, Antipater seems to think that his life is in imminent danger. To rescue him, Gordianus concocts a daring, even foolhardy, scheme to go behind enemy lines and bring Antipater to safety. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Gall, Carlotta

Summary: Describes the toll taken on the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan since the September 11 attacks through ordinary citizens' accounts of fighting and first-hand descriptions from Taliban warlords, intelligence thugs, American generals, and Afghani politicians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 GAL

Rinder, Mike

Summary: Mike Rinder's parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology's elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard's yacht and promised training in Hubbard's most advanced techniques, Mike was instead put to work swabbing the decks. Still, Rinder...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RINDER, MIKE RIN

Saylor, Steven

Summary: "In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

Saylor, Steven

Summary: Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of "Finder" but even he cannot refuse the call of Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Troubled by dreams foretelling disaster and fearing a conspiracy against the life of Caesar, she had hired someone to investigate the rumors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAY

MacCarry, Noel

Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SEGER MAC

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in India, Commander Phillip Hazard volunteers to accompany a special army force to rescue the besieged British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the Shannon's Naval Brigade are put under the command of Colonel Cockayne, a cavalry officer whose own wife and daughter are among those caught in the siege.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

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