Kelly, Megyn
Summary: Since her show The Kelly File premiered on the Fox News Channel, Megyn Kelly has cemented her reputation as one of the most respected and hardest hitting journalists in America. Now in her debut book, Kelly goes behind the scenes of the stories and struggles that landed her in the anchor chair. From growing up in a tough love family, to her father's sudden, tragic death, Megyn traces the values...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KELLY, MEGYN KelSummary: Behind the Wheel's Arabic provides a stable and universal foundatino in comprehending, speaking, and using creative expression for the novice Arabic language learner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.7 ARASummary: Presents eight Hebrew language lessons for English speakers. Based on the method developed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur and designed to teach you to understand and speak the essential elements of Hebrew in a relatively short time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 492.4 HEBSummary: Offers a quick lesson in spoken Czech for everyday situations including greetings, asking directions, checking into a hotel, and ordering in a restaurant.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Living Language 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 491.86 CZECarr, Nicholas G.
Summary: Describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind", from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, the author makes a convincing case that every information...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 CARDeCurtis, Anthony
Summary: Just a few years after the singer's death comes the thrilling, provocative story of his complex life. An acclaimed Rolling Stone contributor, Anthony DeCurtis interviewed Reed extensively and knew him well. With unparalleled access to Reed's friends, family, and dozens of other intimate relations, DeCurtis brings Reed's story compellingly alive and deepens listeners' understanding of his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REED, LOU DECDoty, Mark.
Summary: When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.54 DOTFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman brings his unique point of view to the red hot topic of global climate change. Here he proposes a national plan for going green that will not only benefit the earth, but also make America's economy stronger and its borders more secure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.58 FRIGafni, Isaiah.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. The beginnings of Judaism--Biblical roots -- Lecture 2. New challenges in the late biblical period -- Lecture 3. Jews under Persian rule--The return to Zion -- Lecture 4. The challenge of Hellenism -- Lecture 5. The Maccabees-- From rebels to kings -- Lecture 6. The canonization of the Hebrew Bible -- Lecture 7. Translating the Bible--The Septuagint -- Lecture 8. Adding to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 296.09 GAFIrons, Peter H.
Summary: A thirty-six lecture course that traces the development of the United States Supreme Court from its founding to the present, with a focus on the landmark cases that have reflected conflicts in American society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 347 IRO PART 1Jessop, Carolyn
Summary: Chronicles one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children, and her account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.3092 JESLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what drives the economy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330 LEVMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: CD MACMadden, Thomas F.
Summary: The first complete English-language portrait of the city in almost 30 years, Madden details La Serenissima's unique history--including its role as the birthplace ofcapitalism--that is every bit as fascinating as its heralded art and architecture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 945 MADRuiz, Teofilo F.
Summary: A study of mysticism, heresy, apocalyptic movements, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 291.422 RUISummary: "Conversational Japanese includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic Japanese plus an additional 6 lessons. The 16 lessons in Conversational Japanese are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Japanese Level 1."--Container note.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 495.68 JAPSummary: Stand by for chaos! Connie and the gang think they're doing another safe, scripted BTV program. But that's before the fire, the okra incident and the renegade nose. Meanwhile, Liz's brother Mark just got engaged. How's she supposed to fit in now that she's second fiddle?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Book contains an illustrated collection of twenty-five traditional French nursery rhymes including a section explaining some common phrases and giving background information on the rhymes and how to use them in games. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J468 DUN FRENCHGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: A historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Lawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAWPollan, Michael.
Summary: Traces the history of four domesticated species, the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato, from the plant's point of view and discusses how they have been cultivated to fill human needs and desires.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Evolution 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Waugh, John C.
Summary: How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become this one man great enough to risk the fate of the nation on the well-worn but cast-off notion that all men are created equal? John C. Waugh takes us on Lincoln's road to the Civil War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM WAUWeiner, Eric
Summary: Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Auio 2008