Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Ives, Colta Feller.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760.092 IVE

Summary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SO

Contents: Tema de Batman (Celio Balona) -- Era uma nota de (Loyce e os Gnomes) -- I wanna be your man (The Youngsters) -- Ourico (Serguei) -- Lindo sonho Delirante (Fabio) -- O carona (Tony e Som Colorido) -- God save the queen (14 Bis) -- Dia de chuva (Banda de 7 leguas) -- Vou sair do cativeiro (Ton & Sergio) -- As turbinas estao ligadas (Ely) -- Ele seculo xx (Com os Falcoes Reais) -- Cinturao de fogo...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tropicalia in Furs Records 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BRA

Summary: The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CEN

Summary: Doc's story is brought to life through interviews with a colorful array of celebrated musicians, family members, writers, and fans; a vast collection of never-before-seen archival photos and footage, including captivating filmed and audio-taped interviews with Doc; and above all the brilliant, jubilant, and evocative music Doc performed, wrote, and inspired.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AKA

Tóibín, Colm

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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOI

Kemper, Bob.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KEM

Tóibín, Colm

Summary: "Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC TOI

Tóibín, Colm

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TOI

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOI

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Toibin Magician 2021d

(CHAMBER OF COMM., NORTHPORT)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1949

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 NOR

Oz, Amos.

Contents: Kibbutz-"An Exemplary Nonfailure": Kibbutz at the Present Time (from Under This Blazing Light) -- Where the Jackals Howl (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Way of the Wind (from Where the Jackals Howl) -- Extended Family (from Elsewhere, Perhaps) -- Secret Adaptability (from A Perfect Peace) -- Jerusalem-An Alien City: Alien City (from Under This Blazing Light) -- It's Cold in This Jerusalem of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 OZ

Taoibain, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 TOI

Tóibín, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 820 TOI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TOI

Tóibín, Colm

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TOI

Tóibín, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 TOI

Boy Scouts of America

Summary: This book is an extension of The Boy Scout Handbook and provides information that will be useful in planning and preparing for outdoor adventures in a variety of environments.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boy Scouts of America 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 369.43 FIE

Summary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 932.014 HAT

Summary: "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CON

Summary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOW

Summary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOW

Kallir, Jane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Art Services International 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 KAI