Worsley, Lucy
Summary: Lucy Worsley explores locations important to royal history and attempts to sort out facts from fiction about the past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCSolti, Georg Sir
Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIMEnglund, Will
Summary: "A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ENGEnglund, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAPOLEON ENGEnglund, Peter
Summary: Englund examines the history of World War I through the experiences of the average man and woman-- not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty. In a brilliant mosaic of perspectives that moves between the home front and the front lines, he reconstructs the feelings, impressions, experiences, and shifting spirits of twenty particular people, allowing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ENGMiralles, Francesc
Summary: When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments—until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIREngland, Jeremy
Summary: "Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory. But in 2013, at just 30 years old, biophysicist Jeremy England published a paper that has utterly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 ENGFrangos, Stavros.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPFranzen, Jonathan.
Summary: The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANZEN, JONATHAN FRAFuret, Francois
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FUREngland Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENGEngland, Vaudine
Summary: "Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.2506 ENGFrance, Kim.
Summary: A fashion manual based on the popular magazine shares advice on how to dress fashionably on a budget or at sophisticated boutiques, covering such topics as how to cross-reference a wardrobe, identify flea market bargains, shop while traveling, and make holiday purchases.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham/Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 645.4 FRANCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 FRAFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 FRAFrancis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FraWeil, Franȯis.
Summary: Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 WEISummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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: Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC HOLFrancke, Chip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Leelanau Conservancy 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 FRA1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 598.2 FRA
Franken, Al
Summary: The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKEN, AL FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKIN FRAPentland, Jenny
Summary: Jenny Pentland's childhood was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues, and she and her siblings were sent on a tour of the self-help movement of the '80s. In this memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 PENTLAND, JENNY PENFRANCE, DAVID
Summary: Our Fathers is history at its best--as intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reporters broke open the pedophilia scandal around Father John J. Geoghan--and then Paul Shanley, Joseph Birmingham, and hundreds of other priests in Boston and across the country--the entire American Catholic Church spun into crisis. But by that time, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BRDWY 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 FRAFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014