Bacharach, Burt.
Summary: One of the greatest songwriters of all time offers a frank and riveting account of his life and the stories behind the hits. Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. In Anyone Who Had a Heart , Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life--from his work with Hal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Reynolds, Burt
Summary: An aging movie star travels to Nashville to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award only to discover that the festival that invited him is a low-rent affair held out of a bar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASBurt, Marissa
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Christa's plans for her favorite holiday are derailed when her parents announce their divorce and Christa spends Christmas in Europe with her mom, but even though her dad remains in Chicago, he sends Christa on a scavenger hunt made up of dares that send her all over Florence, Paris, and London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURBurr, Samuel
Summary: "Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBure, Candace.
Summary: Actress Candace Cameron Bure (Full House) offers a candid account of her struggles with food and tells how faith ultimately reshaped her life, giving her true freedom and fitness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B&H Publishing Group 2011
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Layton, Bart
Summary: A young Frenchman convinces a Texas family that he is their teenage son who has been missing for three years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMPHurt, John
Summary: Based on the true story of two East German families who built a hot air balloon to escape from Communist East Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HURVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Foreword by Dave Eggers Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers--including Dave Eggers, author of this volume's Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars--and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Hader, Berta
Summary: This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow. Each of the more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations has been painstakingly restored from the Haders' original art stored at the University of Oregon. Game songs, tales of boys and girls, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 VONEditors, Bark.
Summary: A pot roast left unguarded. An open bedroom door. An ill-timed squat. Dogs seem to have impeccable timing. Yet how quickly calamity turns to comedy in the company of a dog, and the wrong moment turns out to be just the right one. In this delightful follow-up to Dog Is My Co-Pilot , which won the Best Book of the Year award from the Dog Writers Association of America, the editors of The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2007
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Vonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post--World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Barth, Karl
Summary: In this concise presentation of evangelical theology, the theology that first received expression in the New Testament writings and was later rediscovered by the Reformation,Barth discusses the place of theology, theological existence, the threat to theology, and theological work.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2005
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Summary: How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is "very"! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award winning series of videogames, hundreds of books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Blackwell 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7 LEGBrunt, Douglas
Summary: September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 609.2 BRUHader, Berta.
Summary: Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC HADVonnegut, Kurt
Summary: ""If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind." Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother's attic when she stumbled upon a dusty box. Inside were more than two-hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship: from 1941, when nineteen-year-old Kurt heads off to college, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Vonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post--World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Vonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF VONBennett, Brit
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Brit
Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBugg, Jake
Contents: There's A Beast And We All Feed It (1:43) -- Slumville Sunrise (3:00) -- What Doesn't Kill You (2:08) -- Me And You (2:58) -- Messed Up Kids (3:00) -- A Song About Love (3:58) -- All Your Reasons (5:09) -- Kingpin (2:30) -- Kitchen Table (4:55) -- Pine Trees (2:45) -- Simple Pleasures (5:02) -- Storm Passes Away (2:56).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 2013