Summary: The legendary George Takei has blazed his own trail while conquering new frontiers with a beaming trademark grin. Take a hilarious, entertaining, and moving look at the many roles played by eclectic 77-year-old actor/activist George Takei. The film offers unprecedented access to the daily life of George and his husband/business partner, Brad Takei, and chronicles his fascinating personal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TOSummary: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek through a personal, intimate look at the life and career of Leonard Nimoy and the enduring appeal of his alter ego, Mr. Spock, as told by his son, Adam Nimoy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORRaihani, Nichola
Summary: "In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is themeans by which life arose in the first place. It's how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 RAINicholas
Summary: Collection of diaries and correspondence between the members of the Russian royal family and their closest friends, from the 1880s to the time of their deaths in 1918.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROMANOV FAMILY NICNicholls, Richard
Summary: Guide to growing plants without soil, covering the science of hydroponics, methods, plant selection, and how to prevent and treat problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1977
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.585 NICNicholls, Steve.
Summary: Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 NICCopernicus, Nicolaus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 COPPerkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERLidstrom, Nicklas
Summary: "Nicklas Lidstrom is nothing short of a Hockeytown deity, and his number 5 hangs high in Detroit as a symbol of leadership, longevity, and unparalleled defensive talent. The beloved Red Wings captain opens up about his life and career for the first time in the English language in this authorized biography which spans the Hall of Famer's entire NHL journey. Nicklas Lidstrom: Captain Fantastic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIDSTROM, NICKLAS LIDNickols, Kay.
Summary: "Quiltmaking design process and construction method using one fabric. Technique requires no special tools. Step-by-step instructions illustrate process for easily constructed quilts"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Quilter's Society 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 NICNicholls, Alfred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 NICNicholls, Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 NICNicolay, Megan.
Summary: Contains illustrated instructions to creating over 100 projects and fashions from T-shirts including customized tees, tank tops, skirts, handbags, and a patchwork blanket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.404 NICDelalande, Nicolas
Summary: "A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century-from the 1860s to the 1970s-worker movements were at the cutting edge of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.8809 DELFreeling, Nicolas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRENichol, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 NICHafner, Katie.
Summary: A health and technology journalist documents her efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAFNER, KATIE HAFHefner, Tony.
Summary: ""Read former prison guard Tony Hefner's disturbing account of sexual and physical abuse at Port Isabel. What, If anything, is the federal government doing to monitor what happens behind the closed doors and locked gates of its detention centers?"---Carol M. Swain, editor of Debating Immigration" ""Tony Hefner's descriptions of human rights abuses at the Port Isabel Center mirror the complaints...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 HEFRotner, Shelley.
Summary: With a perceptive text and dynamic photographs, the creators of this book demystify adoption for young children and celebrate the joy that comes with adding to a family. Encourages readers to reflect and ask questions about adoption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.734 ROTGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 GILHenner, Marilu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.0432 HENHetzer, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.21 HETHenner, Marilu
Summary: Marilu Henner was moving on with her life after a divorce when her old college classmate Michael Brown, whom she had not seen in over twenty years, called her out of nowhere. Within days of their reconnecting in 2003, they became inseparable. But only months later, Michael was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and then lung cancer. Marilu refused to lose the love of her life so easily. With the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HENKutner, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1997