Summary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPNewman, Katherine S.
Summary: "From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training. After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and stranded, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. But we don't have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 NEWSummary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HERSummary: 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
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: An electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GRAChilton
Summary: Includes Popular American and Canadian makes and models, for model years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Company 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 American 1992-96Whiston-Donaldson, Anna.
Summary: The author shares the story of the loss of her twelve-year-old son to a flash flood, and how she and her family made their way through profound grief toward peace with the help of the presence of God.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITSON-DONALDSON, ANNA WHIJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2002
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 JOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 JOLDaskal, Lolly
Summary: "Inc. magazine's most popular writer, executive coach Lolly Daskal explains how anyone can recognize and leverage the leadership gaps that stand in the way of greatness. When successful people begin to feel uncertain or challenged at work, the one thingthey want to know most is why things are going wrong after they have gone right for so long. In The Leadership Gap, Lolly Daskal reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 DASJacobs, Hollye.
Summary: Hollye Jacobs describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience with breast cancer and gives details about diagnosis, treatment, side effects and recovery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 JACJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 JOLBishop, Holley.
Summary: An examination of the history, art, and science of beekeeping chronicles the author's own experiences as a novice beekeeper and includes recipes sweetened with honey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FREE 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.16 BISTai, Lolly
Summary: The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 TAIShipton, Alyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SHISmith, Olly
Summary: "Here are 80 seriously simple alcoholic and booze-free cocktails that will help you bring joyful moments to the everyday; all you need to do is add sparkles. Whether it's champagne, cava, prosecco, cider, beer, tonic, soda, ginger ale, or kombucha, theseare wonderful bubbly recipes for every occasion"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 SMIParton, Dolly
Summary: Showcasing the music legend's most unforgettable looks from the 1960s until now, this stunningly photographed book displays Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style along with entertaining personal anecdotes that, for the first time, reveal the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 PARTON, DOLLY PARJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ. of Michigan Press 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. JollyRichards, Olly
Summary: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers. Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.6 RICHolley, Joe
Summary: "One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town, revealing the struggles and triumphs of these fellow Texans long after the satellite news trucks have gone"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HOLChugh, Dolly
Summary: "A revolutionary, psychology-based guidebook for developing resilience and grit to confront our whitewashed history and build a better, more just future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 CHUWhitson, Signe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.343 WHIBlumenthal, Heston
Summary: Well, it's full of Heston's typically brilliant, delicious and inventive recipes, including green gazpacho, beetroot and pea salad, quinoa with vegetables, Moroccan pasties, hemp panna cotta, banana and parsley smoothie, tomato and coffee muffins, parsnip granola, rice ice cream, sherry vinegar posset, cricket ketchup and thyme and orange kombucha, not forgetting popcorn chicken with real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BLUBrown, Heston
Summary: Ukrainian food is really one of a kind. The perfect combination of the ingredients results into an inviting aroma, and more importantly, a delicious taste – that is a known fact. Therefore, it is really no surprise that you are seeking a good Ukrainian cookbook out. You are in luck because this book is exactly what you need. This book features some of the best recipes to come out of Ukraine....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heston Brown 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59477 BROWinton, Tim
Summary: "A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, andswamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017