Summary: Using the book the Acts of the Apostles, this program traces the birth of Christianity to the development of the first Christian communities. Christian persecutions and the role of the catacombs as places of hiding and worship are discussed, along with the activities of the founders of the first synods, theologians Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and Saint Augustine. An examination of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher's life, this work is an affectionate and even-handed portrayal of a woman whose unsurpassed honesty is a reminder of how things should be. Weller traces Carrie Fisher's life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. We follow Fisher's acting career, from her debut in Shampoo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FisherTafuri, Nancy.
Summary: Questions and answers highlight some outstanding characteristics of farm animals, such as a chicken's feathers and a horse's mane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC TAFReyes, Dolores
Summary: Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYSummary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Palos Verdes Stake President Maurice Lam. Topics of discussion include the meaning of the term Latter-day Saints, the life and death of the prophet Joseph Smith, the core values of the LDS Church, The Book of Mormon as the key to the Bible, the structure and organization of the LDS...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son 1900
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKnapp, Bliss
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Christian Science Pub. Society 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.5 KNABjorling, Jussi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O BJOSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: A collection of short stories that includes the classic graphic novel It's Tokyo, Charlie Brown!, in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang hops on a plane to Japan when their Little League team is chosen to represent the United States in an international baseball game in Tokyo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: This book will inspire anyone who loves to party, host, gather, cook, or eat. Included are 31 party-themed menus and guides for party planning from invitations and estimating portions to decorating and farewell favors. -- Adapted from back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 HEIMeldrum, Charlotte D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Books 1999
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3749 MEL Vol.1Call number: R-GEN 929.3749 MEL Vol.2
Zappa, Frank.
Contents: Re-Gyptian strut -- Naval aviation in art? -- A little green rosetta -- Duck duck goose -- Down in de dew -- For the young sophisticate -- Tryin' to grow a chin -- Broken hearts are for assholes -- The legend of the Illinois enema bandit -- Lemme take you to the beach -- Revised music for guitar & low budget orchetra -- RDNZL.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ZAPCrawford, Isis
Summary: When Darius Witherspoon hires them to cater a costume party in honor of his missing wife, Bernie and Libby arrive at the haunted Berkshire Arms only to find out that murder is on the menu when Darius is found hanging from a noose during the festivities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAFRANCE, DAVID
Summary: Our Fathers is history at its best--as intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reporters broke open the pedophilia scandal around Father John J. Geoghan--and then Paul Shanley, Joseph Birmingham, and hundreds of other priests in Boston and across the country--the entire American Catholic Church spun into crisis. But by that time, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BRDWY 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 FRASummary: 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 NOWPfarrer, Chuck.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PFAGraham, Heather
Summary: When Clara Avery, an entertainer working on the Fate, an Alaskan cruise ship, goes to nearby Bear Island, she comes across a scene of bloody mayhem. She also comes across Thor Erikson, who will soon be a member of the FBI's elite paranormal unit, the Krewe of Hunters. Thor's been sent from the Alaska field office to investigate several grotesque killings, with the dead posed to resemble the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2016Atwood, Margaret
Summary: The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ATWKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison is just like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found.Writer David Thorne still hasn’t recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he’s sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Koontz 2021Collins, Ailynn
Summary: "After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Segel, Jason
Summary: "After discovering terrifying information about Otherworld, the Company's high-tech VR gaming experience, Simon and his friends are on the run, searching for Simon's old roommate. He may just be the key to shutting the Company down, although if they don'tfind him in time, it may be too late for not only them, but for all of humanity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEGLlewellyn, Claire.
Summary: This book teaches children the different ways to keep safe when in or near the water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2006