Summary: Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon, Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. Featuring appearances by longtime Cave collaborators Ray Winstone, Blixa Bargeld,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TWEBain, Iain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.4 BAIForsyth, Frederick
Summary: A sequel to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera in which the disfigured Phantom goes to America. He builds the world's greatest opera house, hoping to lure his love, the opera diva who rejected him in Paris. By the author of The Day of the Jackal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: STMAR 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORGately, Iain
Summary: A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 GATForsyth, Frederick
Summary: "From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORSYTH, FREDERICK FORDais, Dawn.
Contents: The preparation -- The decision -- The reason -- The accessories -- The training -- The limit -- The moment -- The lifestyle -- The pain -- The fundraising -- The payoff -- The mentality -- The marathon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 DAIForsyth, Frederick
Summary: A collection of five complete novellas from Frederick Forsyth -- with his usual surprise endings.A collection of five suspenseful stories. Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in The Veteran. In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in The Art of the Matter. Other...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORBANKS, IAIN
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Publisher / Publication Date: SIMON 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANLundy, Iain.
Summary: "This is the culmination of years of research into the lives of Scots who were guilty of dastardly deeds after leaving Scotland for America -- in some cases they literally got away with murder. These emigrants were rogues, con artists, charlatans and reprobates of the worst order and their crimes are laid out in detail. For each character the author relates their early lives in Scotland, family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whittles Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LUNForsyth, Adrian.
Contents: 1. In the realm of the tropics -- 2. Fertility -- 3. Canyons of light -- 4. Hangers-on -- 5. Matapalo -- 6. Listen to the flowers -- 7. "Eat me" -- 8. Bugs and drugs -- 9. Creeping socialists -- 10. Army ants -- 11. Artful guises -- 12. Southbound -- 13. Jerry's maggot -- 14. Singing in the rain -- 15. Night walks -- 16. The eternal tropics -- 17. Paradise lost?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 FORGately, Iain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.14 GATMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 943 MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.155 MACMcCalman, Iain.
Summary: Cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. He steps back in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers and reveals the untold story of how they campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 MCCSinclair, Iain
Summary: "The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINCLAIR, IAIN SINSinclair, Iain
Summary: Mourns the ways in which the 2012 Olympic games are prompting redevelopment at the cost of local history, exploring the roots of new constructions while citing the losses of private establishments, public parks, and casual diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1086 SINDais, Dawn
Summary: "Dawn Dais knows all about life's rollercoasters. In fact, she's made a career of writing books about them. Whether she was going from couch potato to marathoner, navigating pregnancy, or tackling parenting, her books have become go to guides for honest, been there done that wisdom delivered with wicked humor. But what do you do when life blindsides you with a challenge that is decidedly less...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 DAIHain, Randy
Contents: What am I really looking for? -- What obstacles are in my way? -- The psychology of job search -- The unconnected leader -- Networking with intention -- Practical LinkedIn -- Being intentional about business relationships -- Asking our friends & network for help -- Not overthinking resumes -- Advanced interviewing -- Negotiating 101 -- Turning age into an asset -- Should I go into business for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serviam Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 HAIKain, Christopher
Summary: "This book showcases some of the greatest trails across the US that can be completed while pushiking-hiking with someone in a wheelchair, mobility chair, or stroller. Part narrative, part guidebook, this book validates that anyone can experience the natural landscapes our country has to offer, no matter what mobility challenges they may face"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 KAIKerr, Iain
Summary: "Innovating Emergent Futures lays out a ground-breaking radically new method for innovation, invention, design, and creativity. Prototyped globally over the last decade, and built on 20+ years of cutting-edge field research, testing, and development--it has been used to transformatively engage the most vexing challenges of the 21st century, develop alternative business models, and new fields of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emergent Futures Lab Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KERRice, Iain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.19 RICWain, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, SAMUEL WAIBallantyne, Iain
Summary: Traces the evolution of the submarine from its ancient beginnings through its culmination as a military vessel, discussing such topics as the buoyancy discoveries of Archimedes, the designs of David Bushnell, and the role of subs in nuclear warfare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 BALMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022