Rubenstein, David M.
Summary: "What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world's largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice.​"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.678 RUBSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUCohen, Robert W.
Summary: This book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports. Features of The 50 Greatest Players in Detroit Tigers History include quotes from opposing players and former teammates, summaries of each player s best season, recaps of their most memorable performances, and listings of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 COHRivers, Joan.
Summary: The legendary comedian presents the contents of her diary, offering insights, quips, musings, and critiques on her daily life, pop culture, and celebrities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIVERS, JOAN RIVRogerson, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File Publications 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITRivers, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 RIVRivers, Joan.
Summary: Sure, a stellar personality is alluring, a sense of humor is essential, and inner beauty can be potent. But why not have all these and a tight butt? Red-carpet fashion laureate, comic icon, and outspoken superstar Joan Rivers is uniquely qualified to talk about plastic surgery: She's one of the few celebrities unafraid to admit what she's "had done." In a book that is part comic musing, part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 617.95 RIVSummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRERodgers, Jodi
Summary: A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2024
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Summary: "Joan Rivers, comedienne, actress, jewelry monger, lives by the golden rule: Do unto others before they do unto you--and for God's sakes, do it funny! During the past two hundred years Joan has gained acclaim as an award-winning entertainment goddess. Joan is an international star (she can sneer in eight different languages) having performed all over the world, raising eyebrows, dropping names,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 RIVSummary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPIRivers, Johnny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RIVHunter, Robert W.
Summary: John Walker's spying, exposed in 1985, was damaging because it enabled the Soviets to decrypt U.S. military messages in real time. Considering what the Allies did to the Germans with the same advantage, Walker's perfidy could have been deadly in a war, and might actually have been to U.S. personnel during the Vietnam War, during which he walked into the Soviet embassy with his proposition. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1247 HUNCohen, Roger.
Summary: An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own family--most notably his mother's--in order to understand more profoundly the nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COHCohen, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 COHCohen, Roger.
Summary: Describes how 350 American POWs captured during the Battle of the Bulge were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or looked like Jews, and transported to a concentration camp in Germany, where they were put to work as slave labor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 COHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War CohenSummary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAUSummary: 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 JOAJohn-Roger
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 JOHSummary: "Actress, humanitarian, film and fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn was undoubtedly one of the greatest legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father, and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 513.0212 HOPRogers, John G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Seaport Museum 1984