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- Vera. [videorecording] / by television adaptation of (work):Cleeves, Ann.Vera Stanhope series.; Gay, Paul,television director.; Leon, David,1980-television director.; Baugh, Chris,television director.; Jones, Lee Haven,1976-television director.; Thompson, Paul Matthew,screenwriter.; Hillier, Martha,screenwriter.; Logue, Paul,screenwriter.; Blethyn, Brenda,1946-actor.; Doughty, Kenny,1975-actor.; Morrison, Jon,actor.; ITV Studios,production company,publisher.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,film distributor.;
Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison.As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break the silence to find their killers?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; NTSC ; anamorphic widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
- Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Cleeves, Ann.; Murder; Criminal investigation; Women detectives;
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- The nourished kitchen : farm-to-table recipes for the traditional foods lifestyle : featuring bone broths, fermented vegetables, grass-fed meats, wholesome fats, raw dairy, and kombuchas / by McGruther, Jennifer.;
Includes Internet addresses and index.LSC
- Subjects: Cooking, American.; Cooking (Natural foods); Nutrition.; Cookbooks.;
- © [2014?], Ten Speed Press,
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- Dalziel & Pascoe. [videorecording] / by Buchanan, Colin.; Clarke, Warren,1947-; Hill, Reginald.Dalziel and Pascoe novels.Videorecording.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; British Broadcasting Corporation.;
Disc 1. Under world -- Child's play.Disc 2. Bones and silence -- The wood beyond.Colin Buchanan, Warren Clarke.The crime-busting odd couple of British law enforcement are back to solve more gripping murder mysteries. This series is as action-packed as ever, although two investigations affect the pair a bit too personally. Pascoe's wife, Ellie, puts her life and her marriage at risk when she gets perilously involved in a murder inquiry. Meanwhile, Dalziel becomes involved in a psychological game with a dangerous killer.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; widescreen presentation ; stereo.
- Subjects: Criminal behavior; Dalziel, Andrew (Fictitious character); Detective and mystery television programs.; Homicide investigation; Murder; Police;
- © c2011., BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.,
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- Henry Heckelbeck dinosaur hunter / by Coven, Wanda.; Burris, Priscilla.;
On a class field trip, Henry hopes to dig up a dinosaur bone with his lucky shovel.Ages 5-9.LSC
- Subjects: Heckelbeck, Henry (Fictitious character); Dinosaurs; Antiquities; School field trips;
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- The faraway world : stories / by Engel, Patricia,author.; Engel, Patricia.Short stories.Selections.;
A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.
- Subjects: Short stories.;
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- Life as we made it : how 50,000 years of human innovation refined--and redefined--nature / by Shapiro, Beth Alison,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Humans seem to be destroying nature with incessant fiddling. We can use viruses to insert genes for pesticide resistance into plants, or to make the flesh of goldfish glow. We can turn bacteria into factories for millions of molecules, from vitamin A and insulin to diesel fuel. And this year's Nobel Prize went to the inventors of tool called CRISPR, which lets us edit genomes almost as easily as we can edit the text in a computer document. The potential for harm can seem both enormous and inevitable. In Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that our fears of new technologies aren't just mistaken, but they miss the big picture about human history: we've been remaking nature for as long as we've been around. As Shapiro shows, the molecular tools of biotechnology are just the latest in a long line of innovations stretching back to the extra food and warm fires that first brought wolves into the human fold, turning them into devoted dogs. Perhaps more importantly, Shapiro offers a new understanding of the evolution of our species and those that surround us. We might think of evolution as a process bigger than humans (and everything else). To the contrary, Shapiro argues that we have always been active participants in it, driving it both inadvertently and intentionally with our remarkable capacity for technological innovation. Shapiro shows that with each innovation and every plant and animal we touched, we not only shaped our own diets, genes, and social structures but we reset the course of evolution, both theirs and ours. Indeed, although we think of only modern technology as capable of gene editing, she shows that even the first stone tools could edit DNA, simply by changing the world in which all life lives. Recasting the history of biology and technology alike, Life as We Made It shows that the history of our species is essentially and inevitably a story of us meddling with nature. And that ultimately, our species' fate depends on how we do it in the future"--
- Subjects: Biotechnology; Biotechnology; Nature;
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- Battle of ink and ice : a sensational story of news barons, North Pole explorers, and the making of modern media / by Hartman, Darrell,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international scientific and geographic circles. At the same time, the rivalry between two powerful New York City newspapers--the storied Herald and the ascendant Times--fanned the flames of the so-called polar controversy, as each paper financially and reputationally committed itself to an opposing explorer and fought desperately to defend him. The Herald was owned and edited by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., an eccentric playboy whose nose for news was matched only by his appetite for debauchery and champagne. The Times was published by Adolph Ochs, son of Jewish immigrants, who'd improbably rescued the paper from extinction and turned it into an emerging powerhouse. The battle between Cook and Peary would have enormous consequences for both newspapers, and help to determine the future of corporate media. BATTLE OF INK AND ICE presents a frank portrayal of Arctic explorers, brave men who both inspired and divided the public. It also sketches a vivid portrait of the newspapers that funded, promoted, narrated, and often distorted their exploits. It recounts a sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news, one that culminates with an unjustly overlooked chapter in the origin story of the modern New York Times. By turns tragic and absurd, BATTLE OF INK AND ICE brims with contemporary relevance, touching as it does on themes of class, celebrity, the ever-quickening news cycle, and the benefits and pitfalls of an increasingly interconnected world. Above all, perhaps, its cast of characters testifies--colorfully and compellingly--to the ongoing role of personality and publicity in American cultural life as the Gilded Age gave way to the twentieth century-the American century"--
- Subjects: Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940.; Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.; New York herald; New York times; Explorers; Newspapers;
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- PAW patrol. [videorecording] / by Elevation Pictures,publisher.; Spin Master PAW Productions, Inc.,production company.;
Max Calinescu, Devan Cohen, Drew Davis.Originally broadcast as episodes of the television program.When Mayor Humdinger bans Halloween in Foggy Bottom, Bandit calls Smoky, Chris, and the PAW Patrol to come save Halloween for the city's kids and pups. Will they be able to save Halloween in time? Or will Foggy Bottom not have Halloween this year?Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
- Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Animal rescue; Dogs; PuppiesvFiction.; HalloweenvFiction.;
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- Dinosaurs at the dinner party : how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world / by Dolnick, Edward,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates-the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones-bones that reached as high as a man's head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land. And if anyone had somehow conjured up such a scene, they would never have imagined that all those animals could have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world. Now, in Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation. Entertaining, erudite, and featuring an unconventional cast of characters, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party tells the story of how the accidental discovery of prehistoric creatures upended humanity's understanding of the world and their place in it, and how a group of paleontologists worked to bring it back into focus again"--
- Subjects: Dinosaurs; Paleontologists; Paleontology;
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- Aesop's fables / by Watson, Carol,1949 December 30-; Daynes, Katie.; Price, Nick(Nicholas R.); Aesop.;
The mystery writer -- The tortoise and the hare -- The thirsty crow -- The ant and the dove -- The fox and the stork -- The mouse's tale -- The dog and the bone -- The fox and the crow -- The lion and the mouse.Short retellings of eight of Aesop's fables.LSC
- Subjects: Fables.; Animals;
- © 2007., Usborne Pub.,
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