Maimon, Alan
Summary: An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist gives us a profound understanding the Central Appalachia region from his years of careful reporting that paints a portrait of a people staring down some of the most destructive forces at work in America today
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.097 MAIAllen, Sarah Addison.
Summary: Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLSummary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGSummary: This film places the spotlight on one of filmmaking's unsung heroes, casting director Marion Dougherty, and takes viewers on a journey through 50 years of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Relying on her exquisite taste and gut instincts, Dougherty helped usher in the 'New Hollywood' with movies like Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and Bonnie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CASAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaHodges, Andrew.
Summary: A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURING, ALAN HODAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDMadson, Debbie.
Summary: It’s never too soon to encourage your kids to be innovative and self-sufficient. And once your child hits the teen years, there are plenty of opportunities to earn money by doing odd jobs, or even by establishing a small home-grown business. This is a great opportunity for your teen to develop and strengthen his/ her individual skills and interests with a practical goal in mind. Is your teen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 332 MADAlda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDTaylor, Madisyn
Summary: "The cofounder of the holistic lifestyle website DailyOM presents a gentle and accessible step-by-step guide to moving from excessive reliance on medications to fundamentally healing yourself through four pillars of natural wellness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.85 TAYAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALISummary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STAMadison, Deborah
Summary: "From the foremost authority on vegetarian cooking and one of the most trusted voices in food comes a carefully curated and updated collection of 100 favorite and most inspired recipes, reflecting how Deborah Madison loves to cook now, "--Amazon.com. Madison has been bringing vegetarian food into the mainstream, and championing the farmers who grow our foods, especially new and forgotten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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Summary: When you've come out the other side of the twisted world of the Playboy mansion, where do you land? If you're Holly Madison--there's no place like Las Vegas! After making the sudden decision to reclaim her life, Holly broke free from the sheltered, deceptive confines of the mansion (which meant exiting a hit television show) and was determined to start her life over on no one's terms but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street, an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADISON, HOLLY MADMoore, Madison
Summary: "Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter segregated YMCAs or attend privileged colleges. So Black Americans made their own spaces, playing in dance halls before the dancing started, and eventually forming teams called the Black Fives. More than Just a Game celebrates the history of basketball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 MOOSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORKUHN, MADISON
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1955
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 378 KUHMadison, Holly
Summary: A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's #1 girlfriend. But like Alice's journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion -- including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show for four years -- quickly devolved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MADISON MADMadison, Megan
Summary: "While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 MADAmeri, Anan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AMEAslan, Reza
Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022