O'Connor, Jim
Summary: "The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. In this book, author Jim O'Connor describes how a simple concept--small plastic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Business O'ConnorHorne, Jed
Summary: The true story of a car-jacking in New Orleans chronicles the death of a white housewife at the hands of a young black man and the subsequent trials, which gradually reveal a story of passion and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HORSummary: Tap World is an award-winning feature-length documentary starring the most cutting-edge tap dancers from across the globe. Brought to you by the Executive Producers of the highly acclaimed short film, Tap Heat, this documentary follows leaders of the art form who are shaping the community around them. Their personal stories of inspiration, struggle, and triumph are keeping this art form alive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TAPPerl, Jed
Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERDavis, Jed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Amato Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.17 DAVHorne, Jed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 HORRasula, Jed
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 RASBaker, Jed.
Summary: Provides an easy-to-follow, four-step model to improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, understanding why a meltdown occurs, and creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Future Horizons Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9285 BAKPerl, Jed
Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Levoy, Gregg
Contents: pt. 1. Call to attention -- ch. 1. Ear of the animal -- ch. 2. Challenge of finding clarity -- ch. 3. Braving conflict -- pt. 2. Receiving calls -- ch. 4. Way of passion -- ch. 5. Awakening to dreams -- ch. 6. Language of the body -- ch. 7. Turn of events -- pt. 3. Invoking calls -- ch. 8. Portals of art -- ch. 9. Making pilgrimage -- ch. 10. Memory's vital secrets -- pt. 4. Saying no to calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House of Canada 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 LEVOlfson, Lewy.
Contents: Plays for acting: Rip van Winkle, by W. Irving. Jane Eyre, by C. Brontë. The importance of being earnest, by O. Wilde. The transferred ghost, by F. R. Stockton. The rivals, by R. B. Sheridan. The flying Dutchman, by H. Heine. The bishop's candlesticks, by V. Hugo (from Les miserables). Wuthering Heights, by E. Brontë.--Plays for reading: Around the world in eighty days, by J. Verne. The Count...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plays, inc. 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 OLFLeVay, Simon
Summary: What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. In this revised edition LeVay broadens his horizons. He adds a new chapter on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 LEVLeavy, Una.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 LEALeavy, Jane
Summary: George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh-- business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father-- Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man. -- adapted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUTH, BABE LEACopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with loved ones and fellow baseball players, the author crafts a deeply personal biography of the Yankee great, weaving her own memories of the major league slugger with an authoritative account of his life on and off the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1964
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Place a hold to request this item.Levey, Joel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.79 LEVLevey, Stan
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LeveyRobertson, Jep
Summary: Jep Robertson, the youngest son of Duck Commander Phil Robertson, and his wife, Jessica, open up about their personal trials, their early years together, and the challenges that might have destroyed them both had the grace of God not intervened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015