Summary: The cameras follow trailblazing comic, Joan Rivers, for a year and cover her entire career from her break on the Carson show, to her heartbreak over the suicide of her husband, and her role on Celebrity Apprentice. Rivers reveals her relentless desire to keep working with humor and empathy. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, Rivers is once again returned to the spotlight she so richly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOABurian, Peter K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 770 BuriaSummary: Reba McEntire sings the Broadway role of Nellie Forbush in the stage production of South Pacific accompanied by Broadway and Hollywood icons Brian Stokes Mitchell as the French planter Emile de Becque, and Alec Baldwin as wise-guy sailor Luther Bills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Co. 2006
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2 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SOUGostick, Adrian Robert
Summary: "In Leading with Gratitude, New York Times bestselling authors, the "apostles of appreciation" Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick introduce readers to easy ways to add more gratitude to their work environment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 GOSSummary: A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROGBorman, Frank
Summary: An autobiography by the former astronaut who flew Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions, and later served as a diplomat and then president of Eastern Airlines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 BORBejan, Adrian
Summary: Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BEJGostick, Adrian Robert
Summary: "Executive coaches Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton detail eight steps for managers to mitigate work anxiety and for employees to cope with their anxiety"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 GOSGostick, Adrian Robert.
Summary: Based on an extensive study conducted by Towers Perrins, the authors show how to use recognition techniques to build highly effective teams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 GOSLiedtke, Walter A.
Summary: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 8-May 27, 2001 and the National Gallery, London, June 20-Sept. 16, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 LIEArrian.
Summary: During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests is the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world. --from publisher description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.07 ARRRogers, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814.52 ROGContents: disc 1. Broke (79:00) / director, Billy Corben ; 9.79 (79:00) / director, Daniel Gordon -- disc 2. There's no place like home (59:00) / directors, Maura Mandt and Josh Swade ; Benji (77:00) / directors, Coodie and Chike ; Ghosts of Ole Miss (51:00) / director, Fritz Mitchell -- disc 3. You don't know Bo (76:00) / director, Michael Bonfiglio ; Survive and advance (101:00) / director, Jonathan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ESPSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyager Press 1978
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 386.242 BROOldfield, Sara
Summary: "The Global Trees Campaign tells the tales of the world's most rare, vaunted, important, and charismatic trees and the conservators and scientists they have working in the field to save them. The book will celebrate trees while drawing a broad audience's attention to their plight and the GTC's mission. The coauthors have interviewed international tree experts and weave tales full of interesting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 582.1601 OLDToss, Brion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8882 TOSSummary: Chasing the moon reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing overlooked and lost archival material, the film features a cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHALoewinsohn, Briana
Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOERoper, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ROPRogers, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purple Mountain Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.26 ROGToss, Brion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8 TosCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Water TossBrin, Geri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004