![Secrets of the sky tombs [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/163514@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that homo sapiens came to inhabit. Now, join an international team of scientists as they climb to the world's highest tombs to unearth secrets of the people who settled these extreme environments.
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Call #: DVD 954.96 SEC
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Wallander [DVD]. Season 4](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/152670@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a...
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Call #: DVD TV WALLANDER S4
Location: DVDs TV Series
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![Dawn of humanity [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/141407@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors. Deep in a South African cave, a special team of experts has brought to light an...
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Call #: DVD 569.9 DAW
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![The ice house [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/102883@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA ICE
Location: DVDs Drama
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![The fabric of the cosmos [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/139331@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Using humor, everyday examples and computer animation for the more abstract concepts, author and physicist Brian Greene explains complex theories of the universe and the focus of his research, string theory.
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Call #: DVD 523.1 FAB
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Wallander [DVD]. Season 2](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/106820@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an...
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Call #: DVD TV WALLANDER S2
Location: DVDs TV Series
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![Arthur sells out [DVD]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Summary: Chronicles the adventures of the world's most famous aardvark, eight-year-old Arthur Read, and his family and friends.
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN ARTHUR
Location: DVDs Children
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![Brain's shocking secret [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/72329@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Chronicles the adventures of the world's most famous aardvark, eight-year-old Arthur Read, and his family and friends.
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN ARTHUR
Location: DVDs Children
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![Cranford [DVD] : return to Cranford](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/101586@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow...
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Call #: DVD TV CRANFORD
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![Wallander [DVD]. Season 1](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/106819@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
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Call #: DVD TV WALLANDER S1
Location: DVDs TV Series
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![Roller coaster! [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44214@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Climb into a roller coaster and remain seated for an exhilarating exploration of the science and psychology behind America's adrenaline rush. Every year, roller coasters evolve. Some get bigger,...
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Call #: DVD 791.068 ROL
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![The Bible's buried secrets [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44218@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Presents archaeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. This archaeological detective...
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Call #: DVD 220.93 BIB
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Absolute zero [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/110770@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are...
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![Northanger Abbey [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182592@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA NORTHANGER
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Big brother Binky [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/32971@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Binky's family adopts a baby girl from China. Binky is excited about preparing for her arrival and visiting China. When Fern's parents give her a cell phone for 'emergencies only,' Fern is...
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN ARTHUR
Location: DVDs Children
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![Sense & sensibility [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/116413@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SENSE
Location: DVDs Drama
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![My boy Jack [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48214@2x.jpg)
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Summary: It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany but...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA MY
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Cranford [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/40741@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted...
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Call #: DVD TV CRANFORD
Location: DVDs TV Series
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![Mysterious life of caves [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/112479@2x.jpg)
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Summary: It's pitch black, toxic gases bubble up from deep below, sulfuric acid drips from above, and carbon monoxide fills the air. It is the interior of a startlingly beautiful, and treacherous, cave....
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Call #: DVD 577.584 MYS
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Secrets of the mind [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109633@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Follows neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran as he investigates four mysterious cases in which brain injury has resulted in diverse perceptual disorders involving blindness and sight, phantom limbs and pain, and delusional thinking.
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Call #: DVD 617.48 SEC
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Binky goes nuts [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/32972@2x.jpg)
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Summary: When Binky discovers that he's allergic to peanuts, he has so many questions: Will he be forced to live without Chinese food? Will he ever again be able to eat with his friends? And most importantly, will his mom ever calm down?
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN ARTHUR
Location: DVDs Children
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![Tales from the hive [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/115045@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Using specially developed camera lenses, Nova brings you the most intimate and most spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony ever filmed.
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Call #: DVD 595.799 TAL
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Jonestown [DVD] : the life and death of Peoples Temple](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/260865@2x.jpg)
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Summary: On November 17, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan traveled to an isolated rain forest in Guyana to investigate the concerns of his San Francisco-area constituents. Their alarming stories focused on a jungle...
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Call #: DVD 289.9 JON
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![Surviving the Dust Bowl [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/142628@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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Call #: DVD 978 SUR
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Daniel Deronda [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/229846@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash....
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Call #: DVD DRAMA DANIEL
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Rachel Carson's Silent spring [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43211@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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Call #: DVD 363.7384 RAC
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Ruby in the smoke [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31588@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Set in Victorian London, fearless young Sally Lockhart has a mind for numbers and for sleuthing. Recently orphaned Sally is armed with a pearl-handled pistol and her keen mind, uncovers the secrets...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA RUBY
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Jane Eyre [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29599@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA JANE
Location: DVDs Drama
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![Galileo's battle for the heavens [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/106211@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his...
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Call #: DVD B GALILEI
Location: DVDs Biography
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![New York underground [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100595@2x.jpg)
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Summary: "Tells the story of how the longest, most sophisticated electric subway in the world was built"--Container.
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Call #: DVD 974.7 NEW
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Newton's dark secrets [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/115016@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Newly discovered manuscripts reveal an Isaac Newton obsessed with religion, the occult, and alchemy.
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Call #: DVD B NEWTON
Location: DVDs Biography
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![The Virgin Queen [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182673@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The story of Elizabeth I beginning with her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a dramatic retelling that highlights the plots, intrigue, and deception surrounding and involving the life and reign of the charismatic Queen.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA VIRGIN
Location: DVDs Drama
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![The great San Francisco earthquake [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/101584@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of...
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Call #: DVD 979.4 GRE
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Citizen King [DVD] : 1963-1968](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/248912@2x.jpg)
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Summary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost...
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Call #: DVD 323.4 CIT
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Reconstruction [DVD] : the second Civil War](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/177556@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and at the same time, how...
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Call #: DVD 973.8 REC
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Summary: This series chronicles the history of New York City from its beginnings in 1609 as a Dutch trading post, through the depression, onto the turbulent years of change in the following decades after...
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Call #: DVD 974.7 NEW
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![The persuaders [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/110187@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the...
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Call #: DVD 659.1 PER
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Battle of the Bulge [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14605@2x.jpg)
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Summary: December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have...
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Call #: DVD 940.54 BAT
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Inspector Lynley mysteries [DVD]. A great deliverance](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22520@2x.jpg)
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Call #: DVD DRAMA INSPECTOR
Location: DVDs Drama
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![The Mrs. Bradley mysteries [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25957@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Mrs. Bradley solves the most complicated crimes with a sly combination of charm, intelligence, and wit.
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Call #: DVD DRAMA MRS
Location: DVDs Drama
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