Morris, Ting.
Summary: Discusses the everyday arts and crafts of ancient Egypt, covering such specialties as painting, sculpture, pottery, and gemstones, along with instructions for young readers for making an amulet, a mummy case, a wall painting, and a scarab seal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 MORKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 KINSummary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOWEmme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 EMMHong, Ying
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HONG, YING HONJing Ying Soloists
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1981
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN LIKTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.92 TWAHong, Ying
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.1352 HONSundh, Emma.
Summary: Offers step-by-step instructions on how to achieve retro hair styles, including finger waves from the 1920s, the beehive from the 1960s, and a 1940s-inspired Gibson tuck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Life SundahDeng, Ming-Dao.
Summary: For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KWAN, SAIHUNG DENDeng, Ming-Dao
Summary: When I was a boy, I didn't get specific lessons on how to live. I got stories. If I asked why I had to believe some concept, a person like my grandmother might reply with something like, "This is the true because of what happened to the Yellow Emperor," and then the story would follow. What intrigues me is that this habit hasn't changed even after China's revolution, rapid modernization,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "The Tao is constantly moving, the path that all life and the whole universe takes. There is nothing that is not part of it - harmonious living is to know and to move with the Tao - it is a way of life, the natural order of things, a force that flows through all life. 365 Tao is a contemporary book of meditations on what it means to be wholly a part of the Taoist way, and thus to be completely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 DENSummary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLSummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTYang, Jwing-Ming
Summary: Applying an ancient Chinese healing art to a common health problem, the author presents a variety of Qigong techniques that will alleviate the pain and suffering caused by arthritis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: YMAA Publication Center 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.722 YANNagy, Clinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.04 SPLSummary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPDeng, Ming-Dao.
Summary: "Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer's new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savor the everyday world of family, friends, love, and work with clear minds and open hearts. When we are physically and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 DENDeng, Ming-Dao.
Summary: Provides a series of Taoist meditations structured around the Chinese lunar calendar as well as facts about festivals and traditions important to the Taoist faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1990
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Summary: "A biography of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist who worked to preserve American Beach, Florida as a historical landmark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BETSummary: Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, the March For Our Lives movement included Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Samantha Fuentes, gun violence survivors, and teenage activists who pulled together the largest youth protest in American history. Their movement went global with rallies on six continents and in over 700 cities in every state across the nation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC USSummary: Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents. The film takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019