Summary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THAKershaw, Alex
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008Luft, Lorna
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LUFLuft, Sid
Summary: The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career. Previously unpublished, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUFT, SID LUFSummary: "An Honest Liar tells the story of the world-famous magician, escape artist and enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. He devised intricate invesigations exposing the 'miracles' of psychics, faith healers and con-artists. A master deceiver who came out of the the closet [at] 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HONSlater-Putt, Dawne
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3772 SLASheinkin, Steve
Summary: "National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin tells the story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A revealing new look at legendary entertainer Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy's own inimitable words. What emerges is a complex portrait of a woman whose vulnerabilities were exploited by an industry she helped to build but whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIDSummary: The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's. He was captured and sent to a concentration camp where he was ordered to write pro-Nazi propaganda films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRIGift, Nancy
Summary: "'Good Weed, Bad Weed' is a friendly, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to the uninvited plants in our yard: who they are, how to control them safely - and why it's a good idea to love some of them just the way they are (including a chart for how best to let our labor-intensive lawns go native."--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynns Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 581 GIFGuinness, Os
Summary: Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion-- the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. He demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2015] 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 GUIJudt, Tony.
Summary: It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2010
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Brown, Curt
Contents: Storm within the storm -- The Mataafa -- The scow, the Umbria, and the Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 BROPant, Pushpesh
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silverdale 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 294.3 PantPuhn, Laurie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 PUHSkordas, Gust
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3757 EARYomtov, Nelson
Summary: "Story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 YOMJudt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDPutz, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.829 PUTDufu, Tiffany
Summary: "A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUFU, TIFFANY DUFEss, Charlie
Summary: "A camping handbook for families featuring food and drink recipes, family activities, nature hacks, expert know-how, and more for the outdoor lover looking for a memorable weekend with the family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Falcon 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 ESSHuet, Michel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1978
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 793.3196 HUEHuff, Tanya.
Summary: Alysha Gale is a member of a family capable of changing the world with the charms it casts. Then she receives word that she's inherited her grandmother's junk shop in Calgary, only to discover upon arriving that she'll be serving the fey community. And when Alysha learns just how much trouble is brewing in Calgary, even calling in the family to help may not be enough to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUFLEVIN, SIS
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989