Summary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINGreenberg, Jan
Summary: Profiles the iconic twentieth-century artist and his daredevil brother, celebrating their dedication to their respective vocations and each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books, Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GRECate, Annette
Summary: "Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white--a perfect family read. Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle--if anything, a bit boring. But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CATLeBox, Annette
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text show different ways that peace can be found, made, and shared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Set Spanish LeBox 2015Marie, Annette.
Summary: Piper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can't help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she's on her own. Before she even has a chance to investigate the Gaians' new stockpile of mysterious, high-tech weaponry, an old enemy ambushes her:...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Wood, Annette.
Summary: In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDIN, TEMPLE WOOLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: Follows the lives of three women living in Southern California during the late 1970s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWEChristie, Annette
Summary: After a disastrous rehearsal dinner, Megan Givens and Tom Prescott vow to call their wedding off, until they wake up the next morning stuck together in a time loop, destined to relive the worst day of their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator-caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power-as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESGannett, Ruth Stiles.
Summary: A compilation of three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GanAnderson, Nanette
Summary: Wonderfully unique, The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookbook: 2105 Edition will delight your taste buds and make your Christmas season even merrier! Featuring tasty recipes organized into fun categories including “Breads a Rising,” “Soups a Simmering,” “Sides a Steaming, and “Kids a Cooking,” this big book has you covered for the entire Christmas season and beyond!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing 2015
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Summary: After high school student Hannah Baker commits suicide, her friend Clay receives a box of tapes with messages she recorded beforehand explaining what drove her to the act.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THIChristie, Annette
Summary: A second try at love becomes more than one woman bargained for in this delightfully funny and romantic new novel from the author of The Rehearsals. Can one little lie lead to a big second chance? Layla's chaotic life transformed when she met Ian Barnett. Ambitious, committed, and thoughtful, Ian has been everything she'd dreamed of, and she knows he'd say the same of her. So when he breaks up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRGiesecke, Annette
Summary: "An essential companion to the 75th-anniversary illustrated edition of Edith Hamilton's Mythology, this A-to-Z guide offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of every major and minor character, creature, and place of classical mythology"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend GieseckeHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HESJoseph, Annette
Summary: Outlines how to host parties with an original flair, sharing a year's worth of step-by-step ideas for seasonally themed gatherings while providing recipes for such dishes as cheese puffs with sage, lemon shrimp risotto, and sweet and sour Tuscan kale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.4 JOSMahon, Annette.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHMeyers, Annette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MEYRubin, Annette.
Summary: "Pregnant women are used to hearing the warnings from their ob-gyns about which foods and medications to avoid, but surprisingly no one informs them about which skin care ingredients could be potentially harmful to their unborn child through topical absorption. Many of the ingredients used in beauty products are normally safe, but when applied during pregnancy are actually linked to birth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 RUBVallano, Annette.
Summary: Advice for updating and upgrading clinical skills. Practical business tips for entrepreneurial and freelance nurses. Profiles of real nurses who have adapted their careers. A description of the different disciplines available for registered nurses. Updated nursing resources. Tips for new nurses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.73 VALBarnette, Abigail.
Summary: Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced-everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for . . . with a woman he would never have expected.Contains mature themes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Hannett, Martin
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dandelion Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HANMartin, Linette.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2002