Summary: "Actress, humanitarian, film and fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn was undoubtedly one of the greatest legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father, and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AUDArbus, Diane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 ARBSummary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDYoon, Soon-Young.
Summary: As a North Korean refugee, Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people's destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a feminist who has worked both for the UN and for the international women's movement. Written through the lens of an anthropologist, these essays traverse the boundaries of being an insider and an outside of the UN.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ewha Womans University Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 YOOHaley, John West
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7441 HALDyson, Nikki
Summary: This delightfully illustrated picture reference book contains exactly 1000 animals, from familiar farm animals to exotic creepy crawlies and fascinating undersea creatures. Each page has an array of animals to pore over. A wonderful book to share together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set 1,000 Things 590 Dyson 2018Stapinski, Helene
Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STABelden, Allen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BELAllen, John
Summary: In this practical knitter's guide, John Allen covers all aspects of the tradition of Fairisle knitting and provides complete instructions for a wide variety of garments, fully illustrated with charts and photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.9 ALLAllen, John
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURAllen, John
Summary: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, are changing everyday life in the United States and around the world. Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril examines how the technology began and how it is affecting home life, medical care, business activity, and military strategies. It also includes experts assessment of AIs future, including its possible benefits and dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 0000
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Summary: On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most were never heard from again. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of this tragedy that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.9 HABTichler, Heleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 BotermansSummary: Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAPYoo, John
Summary: "[This guide] offers a penetrating and irreverent account of the justices--ideologues and cowards, geniuses and mediocrities, all of them thoroughly human--and a fascinating analysis of a Court that has swung like a pendulum from preserving the Republic to undermining government by the people and back to defending the Constitution. Sprightly, informative, and powerfully argued, this book is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 Koon 2004Toon, Ann
Summary: Describes where the rhinos live, establish territories, and raise their young, and discusses the measures being taken to try and save them from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.668 TOOShaw, John (John Allen)
Summary: Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SHABoon, Fiona
Summary: Presents simple retellings of such familiar Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments as "Noah and the Ark," "David and Goliath," and "The Good Samaritan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Believe Ideas, Ltd 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOARD BOOChouinard, Yvon
Summary: Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost forty years, its reputation for high quality, maverick innovation, and long-term environmental responsibility has put it in a class by itself. And everything flows from Patagonia's founder, Yvon Chouinard, whose creation myth is now an American business legend. Here, Yvon Chouinard relates his and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4083 CHONoon, Steve
Summary: Traces the development of one street from the Stone Age to the present day, from dirt track to the rebuilding of inns as wine bars, showing how people lived and what they did all day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 936 NOOYoun, Anthony
Summary: Growing older is a blessing. But the slow decline and the loss of functionality associated with aging has led us to treat the process like a disease. These negative effects of aging, however, are not inevitable. Rather, they're largely the result of environmental and lifestyle factors that, when properly addressed, can be reversed through a process called Autojuvenation. Packed with accessible,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 YOUNoon, Steve.
Summary: Panoramic scenes show each stage in an imaginary city's fascinating history, from its beginnings as a Greek colony to the city it is today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Publishing 2013