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Ralston, Aron.

Summary: A mountaineer who survived a near-fatal accident by amputating his arm when it became trapped behind a boulder in Utah describes how he endured five days of hypothermia, dehydration, and hallucinations before managing his own rescue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Ralston

Hilton, Joni

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Home 2001

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Dalton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

Ralston, Aron.

Summary: One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.522 RAL

Walton, John

Summary: "Spend a day at the airport alongside pilots, flight attendants, and baggage handlers in this charming nonfiction story"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Neon Squid 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 387.7 WAL

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Summary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAR

Saxton, Jo.

Summary: "In Snail Trail, children follow a colorful snail's silvery trail as he slides through eight modern pictures while searching for his very own "snail-portrait" - a piece of art that represents him. As he glides past famous works such as Pablo Picasso's "Maya in a Sailor Suit," Jackson Pollock's "Number 20," Mark Rothko's "White Centre," Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory," and Henri...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAX

Summary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWE

Summary: An unconventional work in every way, the Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere. It shuttles viewers from one vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology. -- adapted from container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QAT

Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Press 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 252.02 SHE

Lawton, John

Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAW

Summary: Presents the history, development, and decline of drive-in movie theaters. Features interviews and commentaries with actors, producers, critics, and others involved in the drive-in movie industry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DRI

Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRU

Milton, John

Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MIL

Summary: Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KIN

Milton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1941

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MIL

Barton, John

Summary: "In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.9 BAR

Milton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopµdia Britannica 1955

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIL

Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1967

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Kehoe, Dalton

Summary: This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 EFF
Call number: DVD 302.2 EFF

(PAXTON, JOHN, ED.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

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Milton, John

Summary: An anthology of works by the influential poet and author encompasses all of his major narrative poems, his shorter verses, his essays, and such influential treatises as "Areopagitica," a criticism of censorship, enhanced by on-page explanatory notes and scholarly commentary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MIL

Milton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1950

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.47 MIL

Bolton, John R.

Summary: As President Trump's National Security Advisor, Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened. After working in the Reagan and both Bush presidencies, he has a great eye for the Washington inside game. What Bolton saw with Trump astonished him: a President for whom getting re-elected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. Here...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOLTON, JOHN R BOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BOLTON BOL

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