Bold, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreativeMedia 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN GERPhillips Collection
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 TURBold, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreativeMedia 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN GERSummary: A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAMColl, Steve.
Summary: The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2004
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Coll, Steve.
Summary: An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1045 COL(RELAXATION COLLECTION)
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Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOIColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLColl, Steve
Summary: "Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: Bartlett Nunnally, better known as Bar None, was a soft-spoken, gentle-mannered hombre who looked like a tenderfoot, and therefore seemed to present no threat to the citizens of Twin Buttes, where he had come looking for his friend Ben Godfrey. But you can't judge a book by its cover, or a man by his apperance. During Bar's first twenty-four hours in town, he was involved in more ructions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 810.8 FROGray, Jon
Summary: Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based creative and culinary collective, delivers a highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, in a book that promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text. Predominantly plant-based recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 GRACoad, Oral Sumner
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1929
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.09 COASummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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Summary: "In a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC OUTTaoibain, Colm
Summary: "A wide variety of poems, ranging in setting and topic, Vinegar Hill deals with gay experience and with the experience of loss, with memory and a fading past as well as the present moment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 TOITóibín, Colm
Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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Summary: A collection of essays explores the sources of intimate family dynamics in prominent works of literature, from the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father to the complicated ties between Thomas Mann and his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TOITóibín, Colm
Summary: "In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 TOISummary: A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia's Oromo and Harari communities, places where one commodity khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the influence of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022