Kenner, Rob
Summary: "The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhoodhe was dedicated to building up"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUSSLE, NIPSEY KENSummary: At 14, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Ludlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the 'demigods of Canadian metal,' releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982's Metal on Metal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VH1 Films 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ANV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ANV
Laidlaw, Rob
Summary: In 2013, people across North America were riveted by the story of Toka, Thika, and Iringa, the last three elephants at the zoo in Toronto, Ontario. Lonely for a larger herd, sick from the cold climate, and weak from standing for long days in a too-small concrete enclosure, the elephants desperately needed a change. The zoo and animal activists agreed that they should be moved to a healthier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAISummary: Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEReiner, Andrew
Summary: "How modern forms of masculinity are harming men-and what we can do about it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.43 REIReiner, Jon.
Summary: "Based on his Esquire magazine article, The man who couldn't eat is the very personal journey of Jon Reiner's struggle with chronic illness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 REIReiner, Carl
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REINER, CARL REIReiner, Carl
Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 REIStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STASummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.837 ROYStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 GILKreiner, Megan
Summary: Each of these small, portable projects can be created in no more than a few hours. Crochet one or two for quick handmade ornaments, or create themed ornament sets such as The North Pole, Christmas Goodies, Fun in the Snow, Baby's First Christmas, Woodland Friends or even a full Nativity Series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spring House Press 2016
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1 available in Holiday Non-fiction, Call number: 746.434 KREReider, Rebecca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.072 REISummary: Jerry Landers, (John Denver) a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an "interveiw" with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message - that the world can work with what God's given us.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OHSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVGreiner, Lori.
Summary: The prolific inventor and star of "Shark Tank" shares personal secrets and anecdotes while outlining a step-by-step process for rendering innovative ideas profitable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 GRERenner, Michelle
Summary: In honor of her grandmother, who passed away, Annie does her first dance at potlatch in her Yupik Eskimo village. Based on a Yupik Eskimo tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RENReiser, Paul.
Summary: Paul Reiser brings his trademark warmth, and razor-sharp wit to bear on observations about parenting, marriage, and midlife. Fueled by his experiences of raising two young sons, ages ten and fifteen, with his wife of twenty-two years, he touches on the funny truths, heartbreaks, and small victories of being a family today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.122 REIRainer, Thomas
Summary: An "alternative to traditional horticulture: designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, two leading voices in ecological landscape design, reveal how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 RAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 RAIRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILKreiner, Jamie
Summary: "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023