Silver, Ron.
Summary: "Brunch has become America's favorite culinary pastime, a wonderfully appetizing and leisurely dining experience unfettered by either time constraints or choice of entrě--and a ritual so increasingly popular that it's not just for Sunday mornings. And hands down, no one does it better than Bubby's, the New York City destination restaurant that has been a hangout for hungry city dwellers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Contents: Empire State Building -- Panama Canal -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Channel Tunnel -- Saturn V Rocket -- Three Gorges Dam -- Nanomachines -- Timeline -- Choose an eighth wonder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 624 MILMiller, Ron
Summary: Discusses some of the information sent back from "Curiosity," the Mars Rover, including pictures of the Martian landscape, traces of water in Martian soil, and the key chemicals necessary for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TFCB, Twenty-First Century Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.43 MILMiller, Ron
Summary: "Deep space holds materials left over from the formation of the solar system. Astronomers have been making exciting discoveries on the outermost fringes and the New Horizons spacecraft brings new insights into the origins of the sun and planets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 523.49 MILWilder, Roy
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Publisher / Publication Date: UGA 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427.975 WILSummary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FERCuhaj, George S. (EDT)/ Michael, Thomas (CON)/ Miller, Harry (CON)/ McCue, Deborah (CON)/ Sanders, Kay (CON)
Summary: Identifies and lists current prices for nineteenth-century world coins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 737.4 StandardSummary: Starfleet continues to oversee the day-to-day operations of DS9, the former mining space-station occupied by the Cardassians. It becomes a center of travel and commerce thanks to the stable wormhole, leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant. Now after two years, the Dominion, inhabitants of the Gamma Quadrant and a hierarchy of three separate species, the xenophobic Changelings, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The legendary vampire Dracula was not modeled on a medieval count from Transylvania, but on the fate of a real 18th century bohemian princess named Eleonore von Schwarzenberg. Archaeologists open her bizarre grave and examine it for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VAMSummary: With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUMSummary: Starfleet continues to oversee the day-to-day operations of DS9, the former mining space-station occupied by the Cardassians. It becomes a center of travel and commerce thanks to the stable wormhole, leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSSummary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRSummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMiller, Tim (Timothy Jon)
Summary: American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking. Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience foods. Cooking, especially from scratch, is clearly on its way out. However, if this is true, why do we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641 MILSummary: 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 JOARoy, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AZ BMiller, Ben
Summary: "The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang's sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 MILSummary: Beekeepers and scientists explore the mysterious worldwide crisis of disappearing honeybees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An absorbing portrait of the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAVSummary: The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf, newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems by 340 poets in the Regular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005