Muller, Karin
Summary: Documentary filmmaker Muller committed to living in Japan for a year in order to deepen her appreciation for Eastern ideals. What she's after--more than understanding tea-serving etiquette or the historical importance of the shogun--is wa: a transcendent state of harmony, of flow, of being in the zone. With only her Western perspective to guide her, though, she discovers in sometimes awkward,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insert Trefoil Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0952 MULDeveraux, Jude
Summary: The award-winning author of "A Knight in Shining Armor" presents a historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community. "It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVTubb, Ernest
Contents: I'm a long gone daddy -- All those yesterdays -- San Antonio Rose -- That, my darlin', is me -- Educated mama -- The next voice you hear -- I wonder why I worry over you -- Your cheatin' heart -- It makes no difference now -- I'm waiting for ships that never come in -- Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart (for a honky tonk queen) -- It's the age that makes the difference -- Crazy arms --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Country Stars 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TUBYoung-Eisendrath, Polly
Summary: Kids today are depressed and anxious. They also seem to feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eisendrath makes clear in this brilliant account of where a generation has gone astray, parents trying to make their children feel special are unwittingly interfering with their kids' ability to accept themselves and cope with life. Clarifying an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 YOUMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The residents of 44 Scotland Street grapple with problems both trivial and severe, but none so great as when six-year-old Bertie Pollock--who longs to be seven--mislays his mum and learns a valuable lesson about wish fulfillment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCQuinichette, Paul.
Contents: Blue dots (7:54) ; Circles (11:50) / Mal Waldron -- On the sunny side of the street / McHugh, Fields (5:44) -- Cool-lypso / Waldron (19:08) -- My funny Valentine / Rodgers, Hart (7:24).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ QUIMcCall Smith, Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCAlexander, Victoria.
Summary: For Viscount Stillwell, finding a prospective bride seemed easy, but Win soon found out endless gossip had broken all his engagements. He decided to hire a company to repair his family's fire-damaged country house. Nothing disreputable in that--until the firm's representative turns out to be a very desirable widow. Lady Miranda Garret expected a man of Win's reputation to be flirtatious, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALESummary: Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPHieroglyphic Being (Musical group)
Contents: Apes & ages -- Civilization that is dying -- Cybernetics is an old science -- Brain damage -- Three days more -- Universe is a simulation -- Cimetiere des innocents -- Root of -- We are not the first
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HIESun-tzu
Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, the story revolves around a young doctor who has a way with women and an aversion to politics. He suddenly finds himself caught up in his country's political turmoil and in a crisis of commitment with the women in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNBWilde, Oscar
Summary: The story of two dissatisfied gentlemen, one from the country and the other from the city, who invent imaginary acquaintances as an excuse to leave their own environments for awhile. The play mixes hilarious comedy with sharp social criticism on topics such as morality, marriage, and class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WILWilde, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Philip M. Condit, President, The Boeing CompanyWhen their largest customers asked Boeing to match the innovations being offered by the European Airbus Consortium, Philip M. Condit went a step further. The Boeing 777 represented a fundamental rethinking of their product-and a revolution in the very way Boeing designed, tooled, and built airplanes. Philip Condit explains the new gospel of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: A style manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic identifies the common mistakes and correct usage of everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point. From commas to colons, apostrophes to adverbs, there are countless ways we can make mistakes when writing or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Musical group)
Contents: Art smock -- Simple and sure -- Kelly -- Beautiful you -- Coral and gold -- Eurydice -- Masokissed -- Until the sun explodes -- Life after life -- The asp at my chest.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp. 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PAIFunny Cide Team
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 798.4 FUNVarious
Contents: disc 1. Tire loma da nigbehin / Monomono -- Chant to Mother Earth / Blo -- Jeun ko ku (Cchop'n' quench) / Fela Ransome Kuti & the Africa 70 -- Ifa / Tunji Oyelana & the Benders -- Ikon Allah / Bala Miller & the Great Music Pirameeds of Afrika -- La la la/ Segun Bucknor & his Revolution -- Shango / Peter King -- No discrimination / Tony Allen & his African Messengers -- Akayan ekassa / Sir...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGLanterns on the Lake (Musical group)
Contents: Of dust & matter -- I'll stall them -- Faultlines -- The crawl -- Send me home -- Through the cellar door -- Beings -- Stepping down -- Stuck for an outline -- Inkblot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LANBuhner, Stephen Harrod.
Summary: "Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not." "Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Mahiout, Anouk
Summary: "As the eldest child in a large family, Pauline struggles to find her niche, and she longs for peace and quiet -- a charming graphic novel. Pauline lives with her mother, father, little brother and sister, and there's a new baby on the way. Her friends tell her she's lucky to be the eldest -- she's the one who gets new clothes and can stay up late -- but Pauline isn't so sure. In her busy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAHMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "The great city of Edinburgh is renowned for its impeccable restraint, so how, then, did the extended family of 44 Scotland Street come to be trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence? Bertie is--finally!--about to turn seven. But one afternoon he mislays his meddling mother Irene, and learns a valuable lesson: wish-fulfillment can be a dangerous business. Angus and Domenica...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012