Snyder, Scott
Summary: "Batman's city is burning. In the months since Commissioner Jim Gordon fell from grace, criminal empires have risen. Martial law has been declared. Arkham Asylum has been emptied. Bruce Wayne has been bankrupted. And Gotham City has been torn apart. Batman and his allies have fought their way up the food chain and put down a slew of madmen and masterminds. Yet each hard-earned victory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATDotti, Luca
Summary: Enter Audrey Hepburn’s private world in this unique biography compiled by her son that combines recollections, anecdotes, excerpts from her personal correspondence, drawings, and recipes for her favorite dishes written in her own hand, and more than 250 previously unpublished personal family photographs. Audrey at Home offers fans an unprecedented look at the legendary star, bringing together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, AUDREY DOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food DottiSummary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMFriedlander, Meghan
Summary: A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn's lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris she loved most, illustrated with vivid photographs, and featuring never-before-published stories about her films, family, friendships, photoshoots, and fashions. One of the world's most iconic actresses and one of the world's most iconic cities together in one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 LEGMatzen, Robert D.
Summary: Near the end of 1939, ten-year-old Audrey Hepburn flew from boarding school in England into the Netherlands, which would soon become a war zone. What she experienced in five years of Nazi occupation has never been explored until now. Dutch Girl sets the story straight, revealing the Nazi past of Audrey's parents and how their daughter dealt with this information. The book examines her career as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HepburnDutta, Krishna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.4485 DUTFeininger, Andreas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.16 FEICodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 CODCodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 CODSummary: Explores the dangerous and destructive forces of nature, from hurricanes to volcanoes, tornadoes to avalanches and earthquakes. Rare footage reveals the Earth at its most violent. The making of Eyewitness (written and produced by Bill Butt ; director/cameraman Mike Kamei ; music by Guy Michelmore) shows the camera and computer techniques used in the production of the series opening screens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYEFriedman, Matti
Summary: The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs. In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD FRIFriedman, Matti
Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, MATTI FRICodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 CODCodrescu, Andrei
Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CODBucci, Andra
Summary: "On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati, her four-year-old sister Andra, and other members of the family were deported to Auschwitz. Their mother Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made them memorize her number and told them to "always remember your name." In keeping this promise to their mother, the sisters were able to be reunited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUCCI BUCGomes, Andreia
Summary: Whether you've been weaving for years or just starting out, Little Loom Weaving has everything you need to create trendy and timeless woven pieces on a small, portable loom. This helpful guide, packed with step-by-step instructions and stunning color photos, is full of inspiring and fun projects -- some easy and fast enough to finish in a few hours!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Cherny, Andrei.
Summary: Cherny tells the gripping saga of a rag-tag band of Americans--with limited resources and little hope for success--keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.155 CHECodrescu, Andrei
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA/St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 CODMufti, Shahan
Summary: Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MUFAndry, Andrew C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.6 ANDAndreae, Giles
Summary: A boy describes all the things he loves about his mother and all the times they share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2011
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Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 ANDKillen, Andreas.
Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006