Shaw, Art
Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, ART SHAFine, Karen R.
Summary: "All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian in a field historically dominated by men, and how, through her work both with her patients and their people, she comes to better understand humanity, mortality, and the unique role animals play in our lives. Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 FINGarner, Art.
Summary: "Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner expertly reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 GARFriedman, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never stopped fantasizing about what her life might be like if she had never put down her bow. Years later, a freelance writer in New York, she again finds herself struggling with her fantasy of an artist's life versus its much more complicated reality. In search of answers, she decides to track down her childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 FRIBlack Thought
Summary: Through vivid vignettes, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots tells dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him, each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma and loss, illuminating the redemptive power of the upcycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK THOUGHT BLAGooch, Brad
Summary: "A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MODLengel, Edward G.
Summary: "It was one of the most heroic events in American military history. Here is the larger-than-life story of World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingered. In the first week of October 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines--alone. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LENKnoedelseder, William
Summary: Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARL, HARLEY KNOSpiegelman, Art.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPIFine, Doug.
Summary: Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 FINGoodis, David
Summary: Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOBethea, Nikole Brooks
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the assembly line. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMGibney, Michael.
Summary: An executive sous chef who has worked alongside cooks from some of the nation's leading restaurants documents an intense twenty-four-hour period that illuminates the allures and adversities of a professional culinary life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GIBBusch, Colleen Morton.
Summary: An account of how five monks saved the U.S.'s oldest Zen Buddhist monastery describes the monastery's location in a remote area that was plagued by hundreds of wildfires in 2008 and the monks' decision to remain behind when even firefighters were evacuated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.37 BUSPaulsen, Gary.
Contents: The Dogs. Beginnings -- Dogs from hell -- Major wrecks -- Becoming dog -- First snow -- Alaska -- The Race. Pre-race -- Eagle River -- Skwentna -- Finger Lake -- Rainy Pass -- Dalzell Gorge and the Burn -- McGrath -- The interior -- Don's cabin -- Shageluk -- The Yukon -- Unalakleet -- Norton Sound -- Nome -- An end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 798.8 PAUSmith, Jean Kennedy
Summary: The last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy presents an intimate portrait of her family's shared life that describes how her parents would encourage their children to discuss current events, forge a strong work ethic, and appreciate the sacrifices of their ancestors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KENNEDY SMINott, David (David M.)
Summary: For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTT, DAVID NOTHellman, Peter
Summary: In Vino Duplicitas marks a new, notorious legend in wine: the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a 20-something Indonesian immigrant who bursts onto the rarified scene of ultrafine wines in 2002. Blessed with the gift of a discerning palate and a knack for tracking down impossibly hard-to-find bottles, he transforms himself from a virtual unknown, living illegally in the US, into one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Experiment 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KURNIAWAN, RUDY HELGoodreau, Olivia
Summary: "So many young people are faced with life-changing hardships--from illness and disease to loss and calamity. What Olivia Goodreau discovers through her journey with chronic Lyme , and what she has been sharing with the world, is that inside of every predicament is also a possibility. This is the story of how Olivia turned the physical challenges and emotional hardships she had faced since she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaudium Publishing 2023
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Summary: Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LYNCastor, Helen
Summary: "In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOAN OF ARC CASFine, Aubrey H.
Contents: Discoveries -- My life on the "ranch": just follow the yellow brick road home -- Giving from the Hart: becoming a comforter and a human builder -- Fending off loneliness -- Do you believe in magic? -- Giving and accepting a second chance -- Writing from the Hart: becoming a Cyrano de Bergerac -- One of life's lessons: carpe diem -- Remembering lifetimes -- Serendipity can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 FINBratton, William J.
Summary: "When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled byextraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021