Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ART

Clark, Simon

Summary: "In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 CLA

Summary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLY

Lynn, Loretta

Summary: "Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the 'important and inspiring' (Miranda Lambert) never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYNN, LORETTA LYN

Briody, Blaire

Summary: The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight - and at what cost.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BRI

Koegel, Lynn Kern

Summary: "Clinician, researcher, and professor Lynn Kern Koegel, PhD, and writer Claire LaZebnik explore the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autism are often overlooked and misjudged, and share interventions to bring out their full potential"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.94 KOE

Koegel, Lynn Kern.

Summary: A renowned autism expert collaborates with a parent of an autistic teenager in this guide to helping teens with autism. Addressing issues from a changing body to how to succeed in college, this inspiring volume offers hope and wisdom for parents, therapists, and educators.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Koegel

Summary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDV

Lynch, Donald

Summary: A huge ocean liner, its lights blazing, its band playing, is slowly sinking in a calm sea. To most people this image evokes one name alone - the Titanic. Eighty years after this great maritime disaster the haunting saga of the Titanic continues to fascinate the world. Now, in one splendidly illustrated volume, the complete story of the giant luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in April...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910.9163 LYN

Lynch, Kyle

Summary: "Learn a new hobby that will save you money while ensuring that you always have enough of the right ammunition for your shooting needs? Due to a continuing increase in sales of rifles and handguns, there is a definite shortage of ammunition of all types. As a result, more and more people are beginning to reload their own ammunition. This guide offers you an opportunity to follow an experienced...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitman Publishing, LLC 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 LYN

Lynch, Seth

Summary: Lakes can be hundreds of miles long and thousands of miles deepor small enough to swim across! Its common for homes and roads to be built near lakes because they offer such beautiful scenery as well as needed resources. Readers are introduced to the lake biome that may be in their backyard through lakes main features, animals and plants that may live there, and examples of some of the largest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.6 LYN

Clarey, Christopher

Summary: A tennis correspondent for the New York times sits down with Roger Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEDERER, ROGER CLA

Walden, Hilaire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 WAL

Clague, Mark

Summary: "The fascinating story of America's national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today. Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he was inspired to pen his famous lyric. What...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 CLA

Stasz, Clarice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STA

Cleare, Anita

Summary: "The Working Parent's Guide to Positive Parenting shows you how to be a great parent by parenting smarter not harder and by understanding what children really need from us. Offering strategies for focusing on what really matters, connecting with our kids,and meeting everyone's needs, Anita Cleare guides working parents to building a happier family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 CLE

Lynch, Jane

Summary: Jane Lynch, best known for her award-winning role as hard-driving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, tells the story of how she reached success by anything but a straight path. From teen alcoholic to out lesbian, from strange coincidences and chance meetings to offbeat character roles and finally a star turn--part comic memoir and part inspirational narrative, this is a book equally for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYNCH, JANE LYN

Lynch, Thomas

Summary: Poems include meditations in a London park, modern turns on Gregorian chants, and thoughts on life, death, memory, and history

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LYN

Lynch, Wayne

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 LYN

Allaire, Christian

Summary: "Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that--because clothes are never just clothes. Men's heels are a statement of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 391 ALL

Harden, Blaine

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HAR