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Summary: "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASSON, CHARLES RICMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORWhite, Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIMBAUD, ARTHUR WHIWhite, Edmund.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PROUST, MARCEL WHIMorris, Edmund
Summary: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EDISON MORMorris, Edmund.
Summary: Describes Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as he faced the challenges of a new century in which the United States would become a world power, and discusses his accomplishments and failures, the enemies he made, and his family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: "City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his erotic entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHIWhite, Edmund
Summary: The book's title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHIMetatawabin, Edmund
Summary: In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff and teachers inflicted on students. Years later, in seeking healing, Metatawabin participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 METWhite, Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944.36 WHIMorgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears)
Summary: Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 920 MORRichardson, John
Summary: A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICRichardson, John
Contents: [v. 1]. The prodigy, 1881-1906
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RichardsonRichardson, John
Summary: The spectacular fourth and final volume of Picasso's life is set in Paris, Normandy, the south of France, Royan, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of World War II. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICLove, Edmund G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVMorgan, Edmund Sears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: This volume reveals the young artist Pablo Picasso in the somewhat rebellious role of "the painter of modern life", a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, " with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICRichardson, Peter
Summary: "For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 RICRichardson, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611.0092 RICHagen, Louis Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellmount 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 HAGBolles, Edmund Blair
Contents: A radical fact resisted -- The opposite of an intriguer -- Not German at all -- I never fully understood it -- Independence and inner freedom -- A mercy of fate -- Picturesque phrases -- Scientific dada -- Such a devil of a fellow -- Intuition and inspiration -- Bold, not to say reckless -- A completely new lesson -- Slaves to time and space -- Where all weaker imaginations wither -- A triumph...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 BOLDe Waal, Edmund.
Summary: Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 De WaalKersten, Andrew Edmund
Summary: "Clarence Darrow is best remembered as the defense attorney in some of the most famous (and infamous) case in American legal history. With his brilliant closing argument that saved the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb from the gallows and his impassioned defense of John T. Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom, Darrow became a legend even in his own time. But such a towering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARROW, CLARENCE KERLove, Edmund G.
Summary: Memoir of the author's boyhood in the early 1900's in a small village in southwestern Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1965