Karan, Donna
Summary: A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: "The Five Elements brings the wisdom of an ancient healing system to the modern reader. Many people today are interested in knowing themselves better, as evidenced by the popularity of personality tests online and in magazines. They want to know the reason behind their responses to situations. In this book, Dondi Dahlin shows us that we are all born with individual rhythms that go beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2016
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Summary: Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2011
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Barbas, Samantha
Summary: In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities’ carefully constructed images...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 050 BARBarba, Rick
Summary: Explores how the characters and people that appear in the game "Assassin's Creed" figure into their own time period, from George Washington and Leonardo da Vinci to Florence Nightingale and Machiavelli.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc., an Insight Editions Book 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 794.8 BARBarba, Rick
Summary: A guide to Yo-Kai Watch, a role-playing video game where the player searches around Springdale for Yo-kai using the 3DS's touchscreen. Expertly defeat evil and help people in need with the easy-to-follow story walkthrough. Find and fulfill all requests and favors for the good people of Springdale with the handy quest guide. Discover comprehensive information on the more than 200 hidden Yo-kai,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Prima Games, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORIBarna, George.
Summary: George Barna identifies, describes, and analyzes seven major "faith tribes" (Captive Christians, Casual Christians, Jews, Mormons, Pantheists, Muslims, and Skeptics) in America--documenting who they are, what they believe, how they vote, and what they are passionate about. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barna 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.973 BARBijan, Donia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.5092 BIJGeer, Donne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 704 GEEWebber, Donni
Summary: From low-maintenance desert fairy gardens to tin towns for town-loving fairies, adults and kids alike will enjoy creating their very own miniature worlds. Complete with handmade décor like spool chimneys, magical signposts, goldfish and water lily ponds, birch and pine-thatch houses and more, your gardens will transport you into your own fairytale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 WEBBarbo, Maria S.
Summary: Scooby-doo and the gang try to solve the mystery of Mrs. Blake's missing cat. Picture clues are inserted throughout the story and flash cards are provided to help children learn new words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEABannister, Nonna
Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARDemetre, Danna
Summary: "Eat, Live, Thrive Diet shows women how they can not only lose excess body fat permanently but also improve their overall health in critical areas such as brain function, resistance to disease, slowing down external aging, and increasing energy. This highly effective eating plan is presented in a compassionate voice by two experienced health coaches who share personal experiences of battling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 DEMBorba, Michele
Summary: "Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood--and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in thefuture. In our hyper-connected, social-media-saturated society, many of us (especially young people) are so obsessed with snapping "selfies"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BOR1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 BOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BORMatthews, Dona J. (Dona Joyce)
Summary: An essential guide for parents and educators, offering practical suggestions and strategies for raising smart, well-balanced, happily productive children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2014
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Donne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONDonne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONBorba, Michele
Summary: The bestselling author of unselfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test scores) are no longer reliable predictors of success in the 21st century - and offers 7 teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future. Michele Borba has been a teacher, educational consultant, and parent for 40 years - and she's never been more worried than she is about this current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 BORMendez, Jonna
Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024
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Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing over seventy Pokemon, including Pikachu, Meowth, Aipom, and Rockruff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.2 BARBarbo, Maria S.
Summary: "Want to become a Wings of Fire drawing expert? You've come to the right place! This official How to Draw book includes simple, step-by-step instructions on how to sketch and color the simplest dragonets all the way to the most powerful, full-grown dragons. All your favorite characters from Sunny, Qibli, and Blue to Tsunami, Glory, and Peril and Kinkajou, Clay, and Darkstalker are here. Over 40...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023