Spielman, David G.
Summary: This uniquely intimate collection of correspondence and photographs from the "ground zero" of post-Katrina New Orleans offers special, new insight into the tragedy. Previously published and renowned New Orleans photographer, David Spielman, remained in his uptown New Orleans home during and after the storm. Armed with his camera and a gun for a self-protection, he captured the turmoil on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 SPIDylan, Bob
Summary: [In this volume, the author] explor[es] critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities. [In the volume, he offers] an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. -Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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Summary: "Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Journalist Tina Brown knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In this book, you will meet a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES BroTan, Amy
Summary: "In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TANLeftah, Mohamed
Summary: "In this poignant account of a classmate's suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEFCooke, Mervyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 COOSummary: "Kisa Kids Publication's first ever graphic novel surrounding the stories and lives of the 14 ma'soomeen and what their name means"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kisa Kids Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 297.1 NAMFry, Stephen
Summary: The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRY, STEPHEN FRYGoldman, Francisco
Summary: "Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico ... [and] sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.253 GOLRockwell, Norman
Summary: Twentieth-century American society wittily and ironically portrayed by a great artist. ?Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), one of the most popular American artists of the past century, has often been regarded as a simple illustrator and had his work identified with the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. He is, instead, a total artist. An acute observer of human nature and talented storyteller,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skira Editore S.p.A. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROCJones, Rickie Lee
Summary: "A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, RICKIE LEE JONBerlinski, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 BERFisher, Richard V. (Richard Virgil)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 FISMaclean, John N.
Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918 MATBlumenthal, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BLUMarin, Cheech.
Summary: One half of the iconic comedy team of Cheech & Chong offers insight into his life behind his pop-culture persona, describing his pioneering work in early counter-culture arenas and his observations about life's absurdities from a fringe perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2011
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Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 DULGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The author returns home to a tiny coastal Maine island after seventeen years at sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 639.54 GREChase, Theodore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1997
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 736.5 ChaseGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.54 GRETimmermeister, Kurt.
Summary: A restaurateur details the hard work involved with starting a dairy farm and describes a feast that was two years in the making, using only vegetables he harvested and animals he raised to supply the meal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.59797 TIMSwofford, Anthony.
Summary: The memoir of a marine who served as a sniper during the Gulf War. Offers a devastating account of the war from the viewpoint of one who experienced it firsthand and lived to tell his story, in all its horror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 SWOKars, Marjoleine
Summary: "The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020