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Summary: "Most famous for his surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory and its melting clocks, Salvador Dalí combined his dreamlike ideas with his excellent technical skills to become one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century. Beyond painting, Dalí pursued the arts in many other mediums including sculpture, film, fashion, photography, architecture, and more. He was friends with many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DALMurray, Pauli
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI MURPauls, Cole
Summary: "Cole Pauls returns with Kwändǖr, a short story collection of Southern Tutchone and Yukon tales. Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are Pauls's most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices. Have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 PAUHassouri, Paria
Summary: "In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASSOURI, PARIA HASValla, Mike.
Summary: 43 American fly-tying masters, from Marbury to Marinaro, Gordon to GrantColor photos of the flies plus recipes for nearly 300 fliesImportant historical record includes profiles of tiers around the country including Art Flick, Ray Bergman, Lee Wulff, Don Gapen, Len Halladay, Andre Puyans, Cal Bird, Lew Oatman, Dave Whitlock, and 34 more influential tiers
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2013
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1 available in Adams Fly Collection, Call number: OVS 688.7 VALPorizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORCoelho, Paulo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 869.342 COECoelho, Paulo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 COEFalla, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGregor Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.91 FALPauley, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAULEY, JANE PAUByrne, Paula
Summary: "Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy and would break with her family for love."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, KATHLEEN BYRPoundstone, Paula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 POUNDSTONE, PAULA POUHuntley, Paula.
Summary: The author recounts her experiences as an English teacher for Kosovo Albanians and how her students formed a book club that brought them together and helped them work through their painful war experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.71 HUNMcLain, Paula.
Summary: In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLPoundstone, Paula
Summary: "A hilarious story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a working mother raising three kids"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POUNDSTONE, PAULA POUD'Arcy, Paula
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 209.2 DARPoundstone, Paula.
Summary: Blending elements of memoir and monologue, the comedian offers a candid account of her life, using details from the lives of legendary historical figures to illuminate episodes from her own life and reflect on her own successes and failures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.7 PouCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POUNDSTONE, PAULA POUYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur YooCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOHunter-Gault, Charlayne
Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUNBell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELTullio, Paolo
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.85 TULLakshmi, Padma.
Summary: Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAKSHMI LAKDe Paola, Tomie.
Summary: Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction DePaola 2000Partridge, Elizabeth
Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022