Volandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging VolandesSummary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYSummary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLWhite, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 WHIHauber, Mark E.
Summary: "From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.15 HAUSummary: "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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Summary: E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: "Commuter" and "Critic," both published in the New Yorker in 1925.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 974.71 WHIVolandes, Stellene
Summary: Presents the history of the world--triumphs and tragedies, breakthroughs and breakups--through the iconic jewels that have inspired and influenced since the dawn of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.7 VOLAngelo, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 ANGAngell, Roger.
Summary: "The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. It goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche." "Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition - marked by league...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGAngelo, Frank.
Summary: Text and approximately 400 historical photographs trace the history of Michigan from the earliest settlement to the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 ANGAngelos, James
Summary: "A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 ANGSarlot, Raymond R.
Summary: Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SARAngell, Roger.
Contents: On the ball -- Starting to belong -- Buttercups rampant -- Stories for a rainy afternoon -- Season lightly -- Three for the Tigers -- Mets redux -- Landscape, with figures -- How the West was won -- Sunny side of the street -- Gone for good -- The companions of the game -- Agincourt and after -- In the counting house -- Scout -- Cast a cold eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGAngulo, Ryan
Contents: Pantry -- Salad & vegetables -- Fish & shellfish -- Birds & beasts -- Wine -- Cheese -- Brunch -- Baked -- Cocktails.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook AnguloAngelo, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discover Art Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Art Draw AngeloGangemi, Angelo.
Summary: Examines electricity, how it is produced, and how it ends up in the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 GANAngell, Marcia.
Summary: Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 ANGAngell, Harri
Summary: "Pilates for living contains over 70 simple and effective exercises, suitable for all levels and abilities, with clear explanations, tips and modification suggestions. You will also find expert osteopathic advice and motivational interviews"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sport 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ANGAngell, Roger
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGSilvestri, Linda Anne
Summary: Get more than just practice questions; get comprehensive test and nursing school preparation that's proven to help you succeed! Written by the most trusted expert in NCLEX exam prep, Saunders 2018-2019 Strategies for Test Success: Passing Nursing School and the NCLEX Exam, 5th Edition is an invaluable guide that teaches you how to master the things that matter most on the NCLEX exam and your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elsevier 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 SILAngell, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 615.1 ANGAngell, Roger.
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGAngelou, Maya
Summary: In the third volume of her autobiography, the author recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009