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Audiobooks. biography Biography. Children's audiobooks. drama Drama. History. Interviews. Tragedies. Tragicomedy.Besser, Matt
Summary: Led by UCB founders Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, this book fetures a series of conversations with experts in the field, including Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, Ben Schwartz, Lennon Parham, Jessica St. Clair, Andy Daly, Bobby Moynihan, and Nick Kroll, among others. Interspersed with questions from live audiences, these interviews focus on the nitty-grity of the creative...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 792.028 BESBesser, Matt
Summary: Written by UCB founding members Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, this manual covers everything from the basics of two person scene work to the complexities of working within an ensemble to perform long form structures. A practical "how to" book, the guide provides exercises throughout to help the reader master each new concept and technique introduced.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Gessner, David
Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GESMessud, Claire
Summary: In this collection of 26 personal essays, Claire Messud opens a window on her life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESReiser, Paul.
Summary: Paul Reiser brings his trademark warmth, and razor-sharp wit to bear on observations about parenting, marriage, and midlife. Fueled by his experiences of raising two young sons, ages ten and fifteen, with his wife of twenty-two years, he touches on the funny truths, heartbreaks, and small victories of being a family today.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 649.1 REIMassey, Sujata
Summary: India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MASMeeker, Meg.
Summary: The biggest book yet from Dr. Meg Meeker, the author of the hit Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, focuses on the author's years of expertise with mothers and what she's learned about creating new, healthy emotional habits that will vastly improve women's lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 646.70085 MEEMessner, Kate.
Summary: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OVEJessen, Gene Nora
Summary: The inspiring, true story of the first female pilots taking their rightful place in the exciting world of aviation. In 1929, nineteen gutsy women blazed out of the darkness by setting out from California in propeller-driven planes, each competing to be the winner of the first female cross-country air race. The hazards were many, from disastrous weather to possible sabotage, but by facing the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 797.5 JESRiffenburgh, Beau
Summary: The story of the legendary detective credited with the defeat of the Molly Maguires gang and Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch offers insight into his innovative "cloak-and-dagger" methods and his investigation into the Western Federation of Mines for the assassination of Idaho's former governor.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCPARLAND, JAMES RifMeeker, Margaret J.
Summary: "What are little boys made of? It used to be frogs, snails and puppy dog tails, but today it is MTV, ADD, and STDs. So how do parents raise their sons to be respectful and responsible young men despite a toxic culture that relentlessly undermines masculine virtues such as moral strength, self-restraint, and respect for women? By letting boys be boys. Dr. Meg Meeker, bestselling author of Strong...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 649.132 MEELeary, Denis.
Summary: The four-time Emmy-nominated comic satirist of Rescue Me presents irreverent cultural observations about how society is taking itself too seriously, in an account that shares anecdotes from his Irish-Catholic upbringing, high-pressure family life, and work as a performing artist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 LEAKessler, David A.
Summary: "Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food? Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613.2 KESHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLFerry, Beth
Summary: A little girl and her dog unexpectedly discover a way to spread happiness and light in their dreary, rainy town.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Lapides, Beth
Summary: Beth Lapides, creator of LA's long-running UnCabaret, delivers a funny and heartfelt meditation on the power of decisions, the place for regret, and the space for grace. Lapides invites us to join her and her friends in reflecting on how each decision changes us, altering our path and creating a wholly new journey. Featuring original interviews with Margaret Cho, Isaac Mizrahi, Bob Odenkirk,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153.8 LAPMacy, Beth
Summary: In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into an epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. The first to chart the tragic spread of prescription and street drugs from distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs, disparate cities, and once-idyllic farm towns, a trajectory that explains how the crisis persisted for so long and became so...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.2 MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.2 MACMacy, Beth
Summary: In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into an epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. The first to chart the tragic spread of prescription and street drugs from distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs, disparate cities, and once-idyllic farm towns, a trajectory that explains how the crisis persisted for so long and became so...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 362.2 MACClinton, Bill
Summary: Examines the types of charitable work done by individuals and nonprofit organizations to demonstrate how anyone can make a difference in society through the life-changing act of giving.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 171.8 CLIShakespeare, William
Summary: BBC Audiobooks America and Arkangel Productions present a fully-dramatized production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which explores the deep repercussions of political murder and betrayal on the human heart. Conspiracy swirls around Julius Caesar, a brilliant politician at the height of his power and popularity. As Caesar grows overly confident and ponders imperial rule, the Roman...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003