Adams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADASmith, Wesley J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 SMIZach, Emily
Summary: An intimate glimpse into Potter's private world and the places that inspired her stories. She found must of her inspiration in her surroundings, and Zach takes readers on a visual tour of the areas in the British Isles that most influenced her work. The work includes early sketches as well as photos of Potter's family and household items that inspired her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6092 ZACWayland-Smith, Ellen.
Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAYSummary: Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TALClébert, Jean-Paul
Summary: "Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEEiseman, Leatrice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SUTTA 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.94 EISNelles, David
Summary: "A visual all-in-one guide to climate change filled with easy-to-understand infographics explaining the latest scientific findings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 NELSummary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREDrotning, Phillip T.
Summary: Stories of fourteen blacks who determined to escape from the ghetto and succeeded.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cowles Book Co. 1970
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A portrait of musical iconoclast David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi. From his days leading The New York Dolls to his reinvention as lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, David Johansen is a chameleonic one-of-a-kind performer. Featuring a live performance at Cafe Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PERBarger, Ralph.
Summary: An autobiography in which Ralph "Sonny" Barger discusses his experiences as a longtime member of the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists, comedians, and more to explore a variety of cosmic topics, colliding pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life and the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STAGelles, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacMillan 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 GELBeatrice, Jenna
Summary: When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Phillpotts, Beatrice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 398.45 PHI(WELLES, ORSON, PERF.)
Summary: Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King Henry VIII and the events which led to More's execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANBerler, Beatrice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Corona Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.02 BEROjakangas, Beatrice
Summary: "Call it a hotdish, covered dish, or casserole - in these pages, you'll find one-dish meals for every season and any occasion, put together with James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas's customary common sense and uncommon culinary flair." -- Call it a hotdish, covered dish, or casserole-- Ojakangas helps you find one-dish meals for every season and any occasion. Many of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.821 OJAOjakangas, Beatrice
Summary: Beatrice Ojakangas, the oldest of ten children, came by it naturally—the cooking but also the pluck and perseverance that she's served up with her renowned Scandinavian dishes over the years. In the wake of the Moose Lake fires and famine of 1918, Ojakangas tells us in this delightful memoir-cum-cookbook, her grandfather sent for a Finnish mail-order bride—and got one who’d trained as a chef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.59 OJAGelles, David
Summary: "In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch's achievements didn't stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE's stock price...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 GELAlemagna, Béatrice
Summary: Pascaline (a bat) DOES NOT WANT to go to school. It doesn't matter who else is going! She knows exactly what she doesn't want. 'Never, Not Ever!', she shrieks loudly on the first day. So loudly, in fact, that something amazing happens - and it changes everything. Charming and laugh-out-loud funny, this irresistible first-day of school saga is sure to be a repeat read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015