Stuever, Hank.
Summary: In "Tinsel," Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4556 STUHaff, Stephen
Summary: Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.92 HAFSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
Summary: Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SNEHahn, Steven
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner. In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAHHale, Steven
Summary: "Combining topics such as crime, death, and life inside prison, an award-winning journalist, writing with humanity, empathy and insight, and gaining unprecedented access, traces the interwoven lives of condemned prisoners and the men and women who come to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to visit them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDHart, Mickey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Sierra, Sarah
Summary: A young readers' companion to the adult novel Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff. Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote. When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 SIEStern, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 STESummary: Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launchs a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie X-Men 2002Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER SIEPasero, Stevan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE PASPasero, Stevan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Summary: "The author follows the course of the setting sun once around the world offering quickly and easily prepared delicacies to be shared with friends and guests in a casual environment, whether at home or at a bar or party. These snacks are surprisingly light and healthy with plenty of fresh herbs, salads and vegetables. You will find exciting combinations with intriguing spices, new aromas and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitecap Books. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.81 PAUSummary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MUSHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARHagi
Summary: "A messenger's duty is to care for and protect the god they've been assigned to. In order to complete these tasks, such messengers require wings. Shin, however, can't fly. His tiny, useless wings make him the target of ridicule and scorn among the other messengers and have kept him from being able to serve a god... until now. Determined to prove himself as a capable messenger despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Hall, Stephen F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Upstart Pub. Co. 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Exposing the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally and exposing a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the US military, an investigation with ProPublica shows the group's terrorist objectives and how it gained strength after the 2017 Charlottesville rally. In the wake of the 2018 deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DOCSteen, Celine.
Summary: Presents one hundred recipes for baked vegan items, including such options as breads, muffins, pies, cookies, and pancakes, with a discussion on ingredients and baking techniques.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fair Winds Press 2013