Summary: In the month of Kislev: A rich, arrogant merchant takes the family of a poor peddler to court and learns a lesson about the meaning of Hanukkah. The night before Christmas: The story of Santa's visit on a snowy Christmas Eve. Seven candles for Kwanzaa: For each new day of Kwanzaa, a new candle is lit and children and adults share their thoughts, songs, stories from the past and dreams about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WINSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREBorden, Louise.
Summary: Describes the popular children's authors' childhoods and early life together, their travels and marriage in Brazil, and their dramatic escape from World War II-torn Europe on bicycles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REY BORAugust, Oliver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.087 AUGKopisch, August
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOPRenoir, Auguste
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1978
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.4 MARMcLaughlin, August
Summary: "With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8583 MCLWilson, August
Summary: The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 WILWilson, August.
Contents: Ma Rainey's black bottom -- Fences -- Joe Turner's come and gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILPisano, Dominick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in association with Harry N. Abrams 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 PISStevenson, Augusta.
Summary: Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOOAugust, Oliver
Summary: In an effort to understand and assess the forces and factors transforming modern China, a journalist joins the search for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon and self-made billionaire on the run from corruption charges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05092 AUGStrindberg, August
Contents: The father -- Miss Julie -- The dance of death -- A dream play -- The ghost sonata.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.7 STRWilson, August.
Summary: Explores the life and career of American playwright August Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service. 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUGGold, August
Summary: Using simple, everyday examples that children can relate to, young readers are guided towards a personal relationship with God through prayer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SkyLight Paths Publishing 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248 GOLKleinzahler, August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KLEKleinzahler, August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KLEMencken, August
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.33 MENAnders, Elouise
Summary: "For anyone looking to drink less, to leave alcohol permanently on the shelf, or to wake up a little less hung over on Sunday, shake and stir up your next party with Nixology. Full of classics like the Martini, Negroni, and Cosmo, Nixology is full of recipes that are full of flavor instead alcohol. Whip up single cocktails, batches to share, or low-ABV drinks for a tiny buzz. Whether it's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith Street Books 2023
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Summary: A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NANLäuger, Louie
Summary: "A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to "what even is gender?""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LAUSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005