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Summary: "A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great Plains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 GALWest, Geoffrey B.
Summary: "From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 WESLeapman, Michael
Summary: "From taking in the magnificent sight of Big Ben and Parliament Square from the great heights of the London Eye to walking across Tower Bridge after visiting the historic Tower of London to treating yourself to a night at the theatre on the city's West End, London truly offers a little bit of everything,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav Wor LondonWest, David
Summary: Ten boldly illustrated stories tell classic tales from different cultures of battles between heroes and powerful opponents. Tales include: Theseus versus the Minotaur, and Perseus versus Medusa, from Greek mythology; Beowulf versus monsters and dragons from Anglo-Saxon mythology; and the Mayan twins versus the lords of the Underworld. Other well-known stories feature Sinbad the Sailor from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 292 WESSummary: The difference between making a sale and making a profitable sale means more than just an extra zero or two on the bottom line. This program narrated by Bob Kimball-author of the American Marketing Association's popular AMA Handbook for Successful Selling and professor of marketing at the University of West Florida-emphasizes the importance of negotiating win-win sales. Key discussion points...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Demick, Barbara
Summary: "Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in thethroes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: Ten beautifully illustrated stories tell classic tales from different cultures of powerful gods and goddesses in mythology clashing with each other and with humans. Myths include: Pandora opening the box that releases the evils of humanity, and King Midas whose touch turned everything to gold, from Greek mythology; Ganesha, the god with the elephant head, from Indian mythology; Thors Hammer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Comapny 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 292 WESMcInerney, Jay.
Summary: In this collection, we become reacquainted with the nameless night-crawling narrator of Bright Lights, Big City; with Alison Poole, the party girl of Story of My Life (and who McInerney has said was based on John Edwards's former mistress Rielle Hunter); and Collin McNab, a would-be screenwriter who enjoys a tortuous relationship with his model girlfriend. We also meet new characters, among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKSummary: Uninterested in movies as a child, Barry Sonnenfeld aspired to a photography career. Fortunately for fans of Get Shorty, the Men in Black series, and early Coen Brothers films, Sonnenfeld's penchant for visual storytelling led him to NYU film school-and eventual renown as both a cinematographer and director. This program presents a conversation with the filmmaker highlighting his background,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Daniels, Joel L.
Summary: "A beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.West, Dottie
Contents: Love is no excuse -- Here comes my baby -- Would you hold it against me -- What's come over my baby -- Me today and her tomorrow -- Mommy, can I still call him Daddy -- Paper mansions -- His eye is on the sparrow -- Like a fool -- Childhood places -- Country girl -- Reno -- Rings of gold -- There's a story (goin' round) -- Forever yours -- Slowly -- Six weeks every summer (Christmas every other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1996