Duckworth, Angela
Summary: Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur genius grant recipient Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own story as the daughter of a scientist who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARSummary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOLAncel
Summary: The ANCEL AD310 can easily determine the cause of the check engine light coming on, quickly read and clear diagnostic trouble codes, read live data and hard memory data, view freezeframe, I/M monitor readiness, and collect vehicle information. Supporting OBDII protocols such as KWP2000, J1850 VPW, ISO9141, J1850 PWM and CAN, this device is compatible with 1996 US-based, 2000 EU-based and Asian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OBDSpace Technology co., Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Sight and Sound Equipment, Call number: Automotive Diagnostic Code ReaderDuckworth, Charlotte
Summary: "Violet Young is a hugely popular journalist-turned-mummy-influencer, with three children, a successful husband and a million subscribers on YouTube who tune in daily to watch her everyday life unfold. Until the day she's no longer there. But one day she disappears from the online world -- her entire social media presence deleted overnight, with no explanation. Has she simply decided that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUCDuckworth, Tammy
Summary: The Iraq War veteran traces her impoverished childhood, her decision to join the Army, the months spent recovering from the RPG attack that shot down her helicopter and nearly took her life, and her subsequent mission of serving in elected office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUCKWORTH, TAMMY DUCCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio DuckworthAngell, Roger.
Summary: "The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. It goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche." "Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition - marked by league...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGAngell, Roger.
Contents: On the ball -- Starting to belong -- Buttercups rampant -- Stories for a rainy afternoon -- Season lightly -- Three for the Tigers -- Mets redux -- Landscape, with figures -- How the West was won -- Sunny side of the street -- Gone for good -- The companions of the game -- Agincourt and after -- In the counting house -- Scout -- Cast a cold eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ANGHoey, Aneela
Summary: "This book features 15 projects for a wide variety of sewing organizers. The patterns are designed to work together, so small projects fit into larger ones. Make for yourself or as gifts. Detailed concepts will include information on installing zippers, alternative fastenings, sewing with vinyl, making three-dimensional shapes, and the different types of interfacings that can be used and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.2 HOEPerrow, Angeli
Summary: A fictionalized account of how Spot, a springer spaniel living on Penobscot Bay in the 1930's, loves to ring the lighthouse bell, and uses that skill to guide the mailboat safely through a storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PERMcAllister, Angela
Summary: Collects fifty-two folktales and legends from around the world, including tales commemorating such holidays and events as Chinese New Year, Purim, World Oceans Day, World Food Day, and Kwanzaa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MCASmith, Marion Duckworth.
Summary: The author describes how she created a romantic garden for her home, the Lent Riker Smith Homestead, and how to apply these ideas to one's own garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 745 SMITHAngell, Marcia.
Summary: Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 ANGWillie Lee Duckworth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro,Bernstein & Co. 1950
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAngell, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 615.1 ANGAngell, Roger.
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGAngelo, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 ANGBadalamenti, Angelo.
Contents: Laurens, Iowa (2:45) -- Rose's theme (2:55) -- Laurens walking (4:11) -- Sprinkler (2:56) -- Alvin's theme (4:25) -- Final miles (4:06) -- Country waltz (2:46) -- Rose's theme (variation) (3:07) -- Country theme (3:38) -- Crystal (4:07) -- Nostalgia (6:51) -- Farmland tour (3:09) -- Montage (7:24).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC STRAngell, Harri
Summary: "Pilates for living contains over 70 simple and effective exercises, suitable for all levels and abilities, with clear explanations, tips and modification suggestions. You will also find expert osteopathic advice and motivational interviews"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sport 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ANGAngell, Roger
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGAngel, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs Press 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIL2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 921 MIL
Barber, Angel
Summary: Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARAngelo, Frank.
Summary: Text and approximately 400 historical photographs trace the history of Michigan from the earliest settlement to the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. A. Seemann Pub. 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 ANGBadalamenti, Angelo.
Contents: Main title/The trenches (4:54) -- First love touch (3:55) -- Heartbeat to a gunshot (4:28) -- Mathilde's theme (4:19) -- Secret code (5:01) -- Elodie's theme (2:44) -- Kissing through glass (2:07) -- Massage fantasy (2:24) -- Never had the child (2:24) -- The man from Corsica (2:42) -- Our solders' letters (2:44) -- Why do you cry? (2:18) -- End titles (6:51).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2004