Hackle, Sparse Grey
Contents: Who is Sparse Grey Hackle?--The young conservationist.--The magic carpet.--The first camping trip.--Certain boys.--Down the Great River.--Tailpiece to a fishing trip.--A drink of water.--Chance meetings.--Minor mysteries.--The angler breeched.--Fantasia.--The medical aspects of angling.--Rain on the Brodhead.--One line from a diary.--The quest for Theodore Gordon.--The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1 HACGreig, Andrew.
Summary: A memoir of recovery by a Scottish novelist, poet, and golfer describes how he nearly lost his life before a last-ditch operation, his inspiration to resume playing golf after three decades, and his visits to courses on the Orkney Islands and St. Andrews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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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 GRESummary: Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PREBuckler, Ernest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.117 BUCMarcus, Greil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 MARMarcus, Greil.
Summary: Insightful evaluation of the group's music.The Doors: a lasting voice, or psychedelic trash? To Greil Marcus they can be both--in the same song. More Doors songs can be heard on the radio today, forty years after Jim Morrison's death, than those of almost any group of their era. Sparked by that fact, and with the deep focus of a critic engaged with his subject, Marcus both revisits a parade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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Summary: Frankie and Sal have run out of things to do: "We've played every sport ever invented" and "baked enough cookies to feed a small country--" Then Sal hits upon a solution: "Let's do nothing!" How hard could that be?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FUCTurkle, Sherry
Summary: "MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TURKLE TURMarcus, Greil
Summary: "Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB MARMarcus, Greil.
Summary: Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 MARDunkle, Elena.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DUNFucile, Tony
Summary: Louie's life is great! A walk on the leash every morning, ice cream on Sundays, snuggling in bed at night with Mom and Dad. Even the playdates with Mom's friends -- despite their little crawling creatures who pull Louie's ears -- aren't all that bad. But then things get weird: cold food on the floor, no room in the bed, and lots of new stuff coming into the house in pairs -- two small beds, two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 TURGreen, Greg
Summary: The most comprehensive guide to marijuana gardening ever written is back with all new information and updated advice for cannabis enthusiasts. Over 200 additional pages of all new information are included in this book, from all new lighting equipment and techniques, to highly advanced cannabinoid extraction techniques and detailed, step-by-step gardening guides for novice and professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Candy Press 2017
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Summary: "100 . . . infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242.38 TICNickle, John.
Summary: Learn the alphabet by identifying objects in the pictures that begin with each letter from A to Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION NickleTickle, Phyllis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2663 TICTickle, Phyllis.
Contents: No palms in my purse -- Mardi Gras and other portals into mystery -- Of swallowtails in particular -- Watching and waiting -- Final sanity -- On just such a morning -- The bleeding birds -- Runaway son -- Garden myths -- Father and son -- Through the veil torn -- Patron saints and a story of grief -- Dance of the fireflies -- Ascension day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242 TICSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYBeall, Kreis
Summary: "The Great Blue Hills of God is the powerful, resilient memoir by the creative force behind legendary, award-winning farm-to-table resort, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee. Born with "the gift of hospitality," Kreis Beall helped create one of the South's most enchanting destinations, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee's Smoky Mountain foothills. For decades, she was a fixture in the entertaining and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Covergent Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019