Isay, Dave
Summary: "StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project's rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ISACava, Roberta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 CAVSummary: Andrew Dominik's One More Time with Feeling is a black-and-white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' album 'Skeleton Tree'. Originally a perfomance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Also features live performances by the band in the studio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NICIsay, Dave
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: RelationIsaySobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBSummary: Examines the long career of the Grateful Dead featuring new interviews with the surviving members of the group and never-before-seen footage of the group's performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018
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Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.2 SOBSobel, Dava.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, JOHN SOBJoudah, Fady
Summary: "An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates moments of delight and awe with his wife, his mentors, his friends, and the beauty of the natural world. Yet he also finds tenderness for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JOUCave, Nick
Summary: The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airlinesick bags during Cave’s 2014 tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary odyssey. Spurred by encounters with modern-day North America, beset by longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments, the people, the books, and the music that have influenced him. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAVE, NICK CAVFall, Leo
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FallSobel, Dava
Summary: The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 SOBCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 SOBSummary: A wonderful collection of essays written by today's queer heroes, featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. In 2016, model and queer activist Jack Guinness decided that the LGBTQ+ community desperately needed to be reminded of its long and glorious history of stardom, and he was spurred to action. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUEBrazelton, Bev
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702.81 BRACave, Nick
Contents: Sad waters -- The carny -- Your funeral my trial -- Stranger than kindness -- Jack's shadow -- Hard on for love -- She fell away -- Long time man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute U.S. 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CAVCave, Damien
Summary: "New York Times Australia Bureau Chief Damien Cave delivers an impactful and informative account of how risk taking in parenting, and in all aspects of life, creates happier, healthier individuals and communities. Cave's exploration of Australian parenting culture, through gripping research and storytelling, will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about safety, risk,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAVE, DAMIEN CAVCave, Eddie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.815 CAVCave, Roderick
Summary: Each of the 100 books chosen has played a critical role in the development of books in all their forms and with all that they bring: literacy, numeracy, technological progress and the expansion of scientific knowledge, religion, political theory, entertainment, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 CAVSummary: 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 TWEBraun, Bev
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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2001