Bair, Deirdre.
Summary: Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIN, ANAIS BAIAnderson, Dianna E.
Summary: "For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 306.768 ANDSummary: Linear functions are routinely used to model data, approximate change, and find the rate of change of a curve. In this program, Sharpie the Pencil shows students how to plot and sketch a linear graph from a linear equation and then how to derive a linear equation from a linear graph. In the process, the slope-intercept form of linear equation is illustrated, and the y-intercept and the gradient...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Wolf, Maryanne
Summary: Wolf considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection as we become increasingly dependent upon digital technologies. A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now that we are completely immersed in the internet and digital devices,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418 WOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418 WOLDie Antwoord (Musical group)
Contents: Never le nkemise : 1 -- I fink u freeky -- Pielie (skit) -- Hey sexy -- Fatty boom boom -- Zefside zol (interlude) -- So what? -- Uncle Jimmy (skit) -- Baby's on fire -- U make a ninja wanna f**k -- Fok julle naaiers -- DJ Hi-Tek rulez -- Never le nkemise : 2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Zef Recordz 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIEDeMent, Iris
Contents: Workin' on a world (3:49) -- Goin' down to sing in Texas (8:05) -- Say a good word (4:56) -- The sacred now (4:12) -- I won't ask you why (4:02) -- Warriors of love (5:39) -- Let me be your Jesus (3:59) -- The cherry orchard (4:13) -- Nothin' for the dead (3:38) -- Mahalia (5:02) -- How long (4:03) -- Walkin' daddy (6:30) -- Waycross, Georgia (4:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DEMDowswell, Paul.
Summary: A far-reaching account of the story of the Second World War, written from a genuinely international perspective, showing how the war affected nations and people all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Tallest Man on Earth.
Contents: To just grow away -- Revelation blues -- Leading me now -- 1904 -- Bright lanterns -- There's no leaving me now -- Wind and walls -- Little brother -- Criminals -- On every page.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TALSimons, Lisa M. Bolt
Summary: "The Japanese and their invading forces have wreaked havoc across eastern Asia. They've even attacked the U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor. You're part of the Allied Forces helping defend the Pacific Front. YOU CHOOSE how you will help fight for freedom on the high seas? Will you make the right decisions to help forward your cause and come home safe?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: You Choose, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SIMAngel, Ann
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1992
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PASTEUR ANGLassieur, Allison
Summary: "Most people think of World War II battles raging in Europe and the Pacific. One lesser known, but very important, front was along the coasts of Northern Africa. Control of that area allowed supply ships to get much needed food, weapons, and supplies to forces into Europe. You have joined the Allied Forces in fighting for this land. YOU CHOOSE what to do amidst the action. See if you have what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: You Choose, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LASGarner, Dwight
Summary: "The New York Times book critic gathers his literary chorus to capture the pure pleasure of reading and eating in this comic, soulful, semi-autobiographic treasure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: How much oil might Americans use in the near future? This program demonstrates data sets and linear functions by graphing current oil consumption and then using the data to predict future demand. Providing an overview of the slope formula, the slope-intercept form of a linear function, linear regression, and linear graphs, the video also explains linear functions in the context of cyclists...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Saunders, George
Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 891.7 SAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SaundersMorrissey
Contents: World peace is none of your business -- Neal Cassady drops dead -- I'm not a man -- Istanbul -- Earth is the loneliest planet -- Staircase at the university -- The bullfighter dies -- Kiss me a lot -- Smiler with knife -- Kick the bride down the aisle -- Mountjoy -- Oboe concerto.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORStosz, Sandra
Summary: "Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehlerbooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 STORobb, Alice
Summary: "An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet. Ballet is an art full of hyper-feminine trappings, but beneath the ornate costumes and exaggerated stage makeup, traits like thinness, stoicism, and submission are valued above all else....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBB, ALICE ROBDoyle, Sheri.
Summary: "Full-color photographs and simple text provide a brief introduction to nouns as parts of speech"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 425 DOYForsyth, Chris
Contents: History & science fiction -- Have we mistaken the bottle for the whiskey inside? -- Dreaming in the non-dream -- Two minutes love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FORHeifetz, Ronald A. (Ronald Abadian)
Summary: To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. And when people resist and push back, there's a strong temptation to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HEIBischoff, Léonie
Summary: "In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anais Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's erotica in the 1920s and '30s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Owen, David
Summary: "Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bones, receptor cells, and neurons. Yet many people take their ears for granted, abusing them with loud restaurants, rock concerts, and Q-tips. And then, eventually, most of us start to go deaf." --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 OWESummary: A letter printed in the pages of The New York times in 2007 acknowledged differences between Christianity and Islam but contended that "righteousness and good works" should be the only areas in which the two compete. That letter and a collaborative Christian response appear in this volume, which includes subsequent dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.2 VOLAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023