Jennings, Nicholas
Summary: Lightfoot takes us deep inside the artist’s world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips into Canada’s North to his heady times atop the music world. Author Nicholas Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal life—including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiences—and the extraordinary drive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio LightfootHerthel, Jessica.
Summary: Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: "People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing." Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian parents, Florence was a talented young pianist but her life was thrown into turmoil when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016
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Summary: Collection of diaries and correspondence between the members of the Russian royal family and their closest friends, from the 1880s to the time of their deaths in 1918.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROMANOV FAMILY NICRaihani, Nichola
Summary: "In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is themeans by which life arose in the first place. It's how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 RAINicholls, Richard
Summary: Guide to growing plants without soil, covering the science of hydroponics, methods, plant selection, and how to prevent and treat problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1977
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.585 NICNicholls, Steve.
Summary: Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 NICDelalande, Nicolas
Summary: "A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century-from the 1860s to the 1970s-worker movements were at the cutting edge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.8809 DELNicholls, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597 NICJennings, Ken
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.45 JENJennings, Francis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 JENJennings, Kevin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 JENJennings, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1998
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Summary: "Describes the science behind the sport of football"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.829 JENJennings, Marianne.
Contents: What are the seven signs? Where did they come from? Why should anyone care? -- Sign #1 Pressure to maintain those numbers -- Sign #2 Fear and silence -- Sign #3 Young 'uns and a bigger-than-life CEO -- Sign #4 Weak board -- Sign #5 Conflicts -- Sign #6 Innovation like no other -- Sign #7 Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others -- Applying the signs for the future -- The road ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.4 JENJennings, Patricia
Summary: In spring 1939 O'Keeffe spent 9 weeks in Hawai'i. During her 2-week stay on Maui, she was guided by her host's 12-year old daughter. Now 85, Patricia tells of showing O'Keeffe the valleys and hills of Wailuku and the waterfalls, jungles, lava bridges, and black-sand beaches of Hana. The two formed a deep bond that influenced the rest of Patricia's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koa Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 O'KEEFE JENJennings, Matthew
Summary: At his restaurant Townsman in Boston, and at his previous restaurant Farmstead in Providence, Jennings shakes up the notion of what defines New England cuisine by reworking the classics. It’s not the meat-heavy boiled dinners or cream-laden chowders of the past; instead, it’s a celebration of the best fresh ingredients that come from a biodiverse region with four true seasons and verdant forest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 JENBevacqua, Nicolas
Contents: ECMAScript and the future of JavaScript -- ES6 essentials -- Classes, symbols, objects, and decorators -- Iteration and flow control -- Leveraging ECMAScript collections -- Managing property access with proxies -- Built-in improvements in ES6 -- JavaScript modules -- Practical considerations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Reilly 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005 JAVASCRIPT BEVMathevon, Nicolas
Summary: "What messages do animals send to each other using sound? How can we decipher them? What lessons might these messages offer for understanding the origins and workings of our own communication? Scientists who study bioacoustics try and answer these questions, using physiology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology to understand how and why animals communicate via sound. In this book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.59 MATNichols, Beverley
Summary: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 NICNichols, Peter
Summary: Presents an account of the Golden Globe Race of 1968-1969, in which nine men each attempted to sail around the world, alone, without stopping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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Kanellos, Nicolás
Summary: "Latino Almanac covers the history of Latino Americans in politics, labor, law, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, media, sports, literature, music, theater, art, and film. Chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected Latino Americans over the centuries. Each chapter offers a narrative history, along with separate biographical profiles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2023