Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMFales, Dean A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 FALFales-Hill, Susan.
Summary: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 FALGall, James
Summary: Literature of theology and church history in the United States and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Westall and Co., printers, New York. 1847
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 266 GALBall, James
Summary: "Some of the most famous questions of our time have come to us in pop songs. 'What is love?' 'How soon is now?' 'How do you solve a problem like Maria?' But do you know the answers? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Ball presents a book of hilarious and fascinating solutions to these queries using data, facts, and science. By revealing the economic status of doggies in windows, what war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BALBall, James
Summary: "The internet was supposed to be a thing of revolutions. As that dream curdles, there is no shortage of villains to blame--from tech giants to Russian bot farms. But what if the problem is not an issue of bad actors ruining a good thing? What if the hazards of the internet are built into the system itself? That's what journalist James Ball argues as he takes us to the root of the problem, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BALSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV ART1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ART
Summary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLY(JONES, JAMES EARL, NARR.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MALHall, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 HallGates, Bill
Summary: Modern visionsary, Bill Gates, reveals how expanding technology is propelling the business world into an exciting new economic era...how every manager can and must stay ahead of the curve, and how integrated information systems can help every organization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.054 GATGates, Bill
Summary: "Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.738 GATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ GatesGates, Bill
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the globaleconomy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 GATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 GATSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILHayes, Bill
Summary: From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. These scenes, among many others, became the new normal as soon as the world began to face the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 HAYHayes, Bill
Summary: "Hayes ties his own personal experience--and ours--to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 HAYSummary: A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 791.34 MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MANHall, James W. (James Wilson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HALRobinson, James Dale
Summary: "Witchcraft is broken - and the SCARLET WITCH is on a journey across the globe to fix it. From the back alleys of Manhattan, to the serene Greek Isles, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong, Wanda will have to face down her foes and find out who her true friends are. But as Wanda solves magical crimes and pieces witchcraft back together, the most important question remains: Who is the mastermind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SCAFallon, Michael James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MJF dba Educare 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2 FALDorling Kindersley Limited (COR)
Summary: How the Universe works - and how we explore it - explained in simple words and clever graphics. The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500.5 HOWBates, Katharine Lee
Summary: Four verses of the nineteenth-century poem, illustrated by the author's great-great-grandnephew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BATHall, James W.
Summary: The discovery of a black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Clay-Liston fight in Miami Beach unleashes a modern-day murder spree that forces Thorn into an alliance with a dangerous enemy to seek retribution for the death of a loved one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALFallon, James H.
Summary: A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Current 2013