Geist, Mary Ellen.
Summary: Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springboard Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GEISummary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEAllen, Maury
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1975
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Summary: From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4 ELWKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIKrist, Gary.
Summary: Summer 1919: the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into 'the Metropolis of the World.' But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose--the city's highest ambitions suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Summary: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 MARKrist, Gary.
Summary: "In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A powerful and stirring reinvention of the show, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RIVSummary: Follows many of the soldiers featured in "Restrepo" after they've left combat in order to examine how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KORHeiss, Mary Lou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3372 HEICarr, Allen
Summary: Allen Carr's Get Out of Debt Now applies Allen Carr's Easyway method to the problem of debt and the addiction to spending. It starts by addressing the various psychological attitudes to money and spending that lead to debt. By unravelling the brainwashing instilled by the banking and credit industries, it adjusts our mindset to show what really gives us pleasure in life. It also helps us see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus Digital Limited 2012
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Cullen, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0489 CULAllen, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.407 ALLAllen, Mark
Contents: A walk in the woods -- A utopian novel -- The ten-percent solution -- The first part : saving -- A bit of therapy -- The second part : tithing -- Solutions -- The partnership model.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2002
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Summary: An engrossing account of the inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 328.73 WESPolson, Mary Ellen.
Contents: Style on the outside -- A face to the world -- Exterior appearances -- Playing up your best features -- Architectural elements -- Transforming an exterior -- The entry -- The front door -- The right accents -- Landings and porches -- The approach -- Shaping the landscape -- Walks and paths -- Lighting the landscape -- Supporting players -- Fences, walls, and gates -- Driveways -- Garages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.37 PolSnodgrass, Mary Ellen
Summary: "This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics and the arts. A timeline of important events in the history of money is included, along with a glossary and bibliography. Photographs of coins and bills enhance the text, providing an up-close look at many artifacts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2019
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 737.403 SNOHannibal, Mary Ellen
Summary: "Award-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists' efforts to protect vanishing species, but it was only through citizen science that she found she could take action herself. As she wades into tide pools, spots hawks, and scours mountains, she discovers the power of heroic volunteers who are helping scientists measure-- and even slow-- today's unprecedented mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Th Experiment, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 HANAllen, Mark
Summary: This audiobook explains the law of manifestation, which takes the law of attraction a step further, revealing what is truly important in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 ALLPinkham, Mary Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1980
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Summary: "The Lone Star State has a conservative history to be proud of, and proud it is. Now, with the influx of businesses and families relocating to the state from across the country, the political conversation has shifted drastically. In a historically red state, there are now far more Democratic minds with liberal ideology trying to swing the state blue. But Texas has reached its current point of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018