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Summary: Follows the experiences of a penny born in Philadelphia that travels everywhere from New York to Portland, Oregon, to Puerto Rico describing in detail his many adventures along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 737.4 SIEGreig, Geordie
Summary: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, LUCIAN GREMcGeorge, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9335 MCGFeuerstein, Georg.
Summary: Learn the safe and easy way to benefit from the practice of yoga, as you design and follow your own personal program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: For Dummies, a Wiley Brand 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 FEUGorges, Eric
Summary: "The host of PBS's A Craftsman's Legacy makes the case that the craftsman's way--the philosophy, the skills, and the mindset--can provide a blueprint for all of us in our increasingly hurried, disposable world. In this book he tells the stories and shares the collective wisdom of these modern-day makers while also celebrating the culture of all craftsmen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 GORGrounds, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9349 GROFeuerstein, Georg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hohm Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181.45 FEUJean, Georges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 411.7 JEALefebvre, Georges
Contents: [1] From its origins to 1793.--[2] From 1793 to 1799.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge & K. Paul 1962
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.04 LEFPasselecq, Georges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.26 PASForge, Arabella.
Summary: Shares advice on how to have a healthy diet while making frugal choices, providing recipes and coverage of everything from learning cooking techniques and selecting meat to stocking a pantry and making the most of farmers' markets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FORBataille, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848 BATGeorges, Gigi
Summary: Washington County, Maine. Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie are teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region. For four years Georges followed their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times: the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty and stoicism mask dwindling populations, vanishing job opportunities, and pervasive opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 GEOVan Gundy, Bill.
Summary: Instructions and photographs show how to execute a jump shot in basketball, discussing how to prepare for and adjust the shot and how to practice shooting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 VANVan Gundy, Bill.
Summary: Instructions and photographs show how to execute various defensive moves in basketball, discussing defensive transition, defending on the ball, defending away from the ball, and defending the low post.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 VANMundy, Jennifer
Summary: Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MUNMundy, Liza
Summary: A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. Journalist Liza Mundy takes us to the frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 MUNColbert, Brandy
Summary: "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COLMundy, Liza
Summary: Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait of the most dynamic couple in politics today: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; and Barack, the introspective political charmer who shoots for the stars. Michelle's story carries all the achievements and lingering pain of the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE MunCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: B Obama MunGrody, Steve.
Summary: Long before graffiti was adopted as the visual expression of hip-hop culture in the 1980s, Chicano gang members in East Los Angeles had been developing stylized calligraphy and writing on walls. Cholo (gangster) scripts became the first distinctive letter forms to evolve in the modern vernacular tradition of graffiti writing. Today Los Angeles writers of diverse backgrounds draw from a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.7 GROGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 GERLockwood, Georgene Muller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 640 LOCGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERMundy, Liza
Summary: Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017