Settle, Mary Lee.
Contents: A traveler between -- Madrid -- Castile -- Avila -- Tordesillas -- In the meseta -- Zamora -- Salamanca -- Extremadura -- Guadalupe -- Shadows -- Mérida -- Islam -- Caliphate -- The end of the Reconquista -- Granada -- Duende -- Holiday -- Tartessos -- Palos de la frontera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946 SETSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: A look at the history and legends of ancient Ireland. Begins in 2000 B.C., when Stone Age farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments in Europe, and continues through 1167 A.D, when the Norman invasion placed Ireland under English control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INMarz, Ron/ Bowden, Mike (ILT)/ Baldeon, David (ILT)
Summary: Four comics reveal the Trap Masters's past and unveil the Kaos' plot for Traptanium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MARSummary: "One girl's journey to inspire a movement. Juliette is fourteen years old and she is on a mission to save elephants. After single-handedly raising funds Juliette embarks on a life-altering journey to South East Asia to meet and work with her hero The Elephant Lady. This is the story of two women, one from the East, one from the West, coming together on common ground, saving elephants. It's the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rattle The Cage Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOWMar, Alex
Summary: Witches of America follows Mar on her trip into Paganism and the occult, from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. She takes part in dozens of rituals, some vast and some intimate, alongside all sorts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 MARThomas, Gary (Gary Lee)
Summary: "Thomas [believes] that although there are a countless number of marriages consisting of two people just going through the motions, there are real ways this pattern can be reversed: when husbands and wives learn to cherish one another in proven, loving, and everyday actions and words"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 THOSummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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Thomas, Gary (Gary Lee)
Summary: Presents biblical quotations, meditations, and devotions which show how different aspects of marriage can be a means of enhancing and deepening a personal relationship with God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Christian Pub 2015
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Summary: A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SEASummary: "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 PAUChacaby, Ma-Nee
Summary: A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: UMP, University of Manitoba Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHACABY, MA-NEE CHALittle, Mary Ann
Summary: "Narcissism is one of the most difficult disorders to treat in adults, but many of the symptoms and tendencies begin in childhood when it's easier to address and curtail such behaviors. Mary Ann Little helps parents recognize the symptoms and develop parenting practices that can reverse those behaviors before they become entrenched"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 LITSummary: Follows many of the soldiers featured in "Restrepo" after they've left combat in order to examine how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KORRubenstein, 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 RUBCary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARSummary: Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOSBlew, Mary Clearman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLELee, Mary Soon
Summary: The elements, set to poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 546 LEESummary: Brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb find early fame in the 1960s and go on to write over 1,000 songs, including 20 No. 1 hits. This film follows the group's meteoric rise as they navigate the complexities of working so intimately alongside family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEEBeck, Jeff
Summary: Live concert performance featuring songs associated with Les Paul in celebration of what would have been his 95th birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2011