Summary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTBuder, Madonna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.092 BRUSummary: This brilliant portrait of Vincent Van Gogh is a shattering journey through the life of a tortured genius who, spurned in his own time, became the single most influential artist of modern history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VINVan Sertima, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunset Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 Van SertimaMusser, George
Summary: "An exploration of the interconnections between quantum mechanics, cosmology, and neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 MUSSlusser, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.384 SLUMusser, Rebecca
Summary: A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSSER MUSAlagbé, Yvan
Summary: "Yvan Alagbé one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures--drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English--he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALAThomas, Etan
Summary: "This volume will be an inspiration for many different people: sports junkies; young readers who need words of encouragement from their favorite athletes; parents seeking positive messages for their children; activists who want to hear athletes using their voices to address social justice; and schools that need motivational material for their students. Featuring interviews by former NBA player...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 THOAmidon, Ervan L. (Ervan Lloyd)
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.L. Amidon 1986
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: GEN 929.2 AmiBoritzer, Etan
Summary: For children, an exploration of major world religions, people's yearnings for understanding of God and how people's need for each other can be met through faith and trust in each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 291.211 BORHughes, Evan
Summary: "The blistering inside story of a startup that made millions pushing opioids-until its cutthroat tactics were exposed and its executives put behind bars John Kapoor had amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he conceived of a new product. It was the 2000s, and opioids were big business. If Kapoor, an immigrant and the billionaire founder of Insys, could find a new way to administer the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HUGJacobs, Evan
Summary: Alden Nash is a video gamer. His skills have earned him elite gamer status and wealth. Currently, he ranks in the world's top 10. Then Alden's agent gets him an amazing deal to test a virtual reality game that's in secret development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJones, Evan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641 JONOsnos, Evan
Summary: "After a decade abroad, the National Book Award--and Pulitzer Prize--winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States-Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 OSNThomas, Evan
Summary: "Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OCONNOR THOLemoine, Yvan.
Summary: "[Mr. Lemoine's] desserts . . verge on spectacular." — The New York Times Whip up a quick dessert to celebrate Coconut Torte Day on March 13! Stock up on vermouth to celebrate Dry Martini Day on June 19! Up for fried seafood? October 2 is National Fried Scallops Day! With this fabulously fun cookbook, every day is a holiday—that is, a national food holiday! In this book, acclaimed chef and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: F+W Media, Inc. 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 BLUHandler, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HANKleiman, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunset Books 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5945 KLEThomas, Evan
Summary: From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: LP 973.891 THOEban, Katherine
Summary: A narrative investigation into the generic drug boom by an award-winning Fortune reporter draws on exclusive accounts and extensive confidential FDA documents to expose life-threatening practices of global fraud, data manipulation and unsafe medicine production. 150,000 first printing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.1 EBAVogler, Kevan
Contents: Land and people -- Values and attitudes -- Festivals and traditions -- Making friends -- At home -- Time out -- Travel, health, and safety -- Business briefing -- Communicating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.37 CZEBoland, Eavan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007