Walker, Sally M

Summary: "When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

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Summary: Composer, conductor, genius, and mensch: Marvin Hamlisch earned four Grammys, four Emmys, three Oscars, three Golden Globes, a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize before his untimely death, making him one of only two PEGOT winners ever. Hit after hit--The way we were, Nobody does it better, and scores for The sting, Sophie's choice, and the Broadway juggernaut A chorus line, made him the go-to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014

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Waugh, Billy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2004

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Sully, Susan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Salley, Coleen.

Summary: A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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Olins, Wally.

Summary: "...looks at every aspect of the world of branding. With his customary flair and no-nonsense prose, he analyzes the problems facing today's organizations, criticizes corporate missteps, praises those companies who seem to be building and sustaining brands efficiently in our brave new world, and predicts the future of branding. No one interested in marketing, business, or contemporary culture...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2014

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Hall, Cally.

Contents: How this book works -- What are gemstones? -- How gemstones are found -- Where gemstones are found -- Physical properties -- Crystal shapes -- Optical properties -- Natural inclusions -- Faceting -- Polishing, carving, and engraving -- Gems through the ages -- History and folklore -- Synthetic gemstones -- Imitation and enhancement -- Color key -- Precious metals -- Cut stones -- Organics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2002

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Lally, Caitriona.

Summary: A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hopeVivian doesn't feel like she fits in--and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, she is living alone in Dublin, where the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Salle, David

Summary: How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries-from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Forrest, Bella

Summary: Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband -- a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts. Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score. When her worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nightlight Press 2017

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Cox, Wally

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1961

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Mavor, Salley.

Summary: Provides instructions for creating tiny bendable doll figures with painted wooden heads, and includes eighteen felt sewing projects for scenes and accessories that can be adapted to varying skill levels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 2003

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Forest, Heather.

Summary: The sun and the wind test their strength by seeing which of them can cause a man to remove his coat, demonstrating the value of using gentle persuasion rather than force as a means of achieving a goal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: August House Little Folk 2008

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Forrest, Barbara

Contents: How the wedge began -- The wedge document: a design for design -- Searching for the science -- Paleontology lite and Copernican discoveries -- A conspiracy hunter and a Newton -- Everything except science I -- Everything except science II -- Wedging into power politics -- Religion first - and last.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004

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Forrest, Brett

Summary: When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Gander, Forrest

Summary: "Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2018

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McDonald, Forrest.

Summary: In this critical reinterpretation of Hamilton's life, the first Secretary of the Treasury is perceived as an ambitious man whose self-appointed mission was to create a new social order in America based not on status but on money.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979

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Sully, Susan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2003

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