Meijer, Fik.
Summary: Overview: Meijer traces the origins of the gladiators over 2,500 years, from the initial belief that their blood spilled on a grave would sustain the dead on its journey to the underworld. Yet, as centuries passed and the Roman Empire grew, gladiators became part of vaster, more brutal entertainments staged by successive emperors eager to manipulate the public with "bread and circuses" and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 MEICarroll, Patrick
Contents: Chase it anyway -- No use -- Stay up late -- Glow in the dark pt. 1 -- Glow in the dark pt. 2 -- Separate beds -- Car crash -- In a dream -- Parachute -- Bulletproof.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Troubadour Recording 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL CARSummary: Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NER RATED PG13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI NERFSK
Contents: The transatlantic feedback.--Unter dem doppeladler / Under the double eagle.--Unter dem rhein.--Die original trapp familie (John Coltrane).--Franz Josef Strauss.--Josh's accordion intermezzo.--Flagge Verbrennen (Regierung Ertranken).--Nicht die hand.--Jazz im dritten reich.--Red sonja.--David talks to Munich audience, 1987.--Shiner song.--Diesel oktoberfest.--Michaela talks to John Peel,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FSKWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINMeijer, Hendrik G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 MEISummary: A closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father. That begins to change in a quietly dramatic fashion when Agnes receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift and experiences the heady thrill of not only doing something she enjoys, but being very,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUZMeijer, Hendrik G.
Summary: The idea that a Senator—Republican or Democrat—would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn’t always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the model of a consensus builder, and the coalitions he spearheaded continue to form the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANDENBERG, ARTHUR MEISmith, Bill
Summary: Retailing Pioneer Fred Meijer comes alive in the pages of this intimate biography, told in part by the people in Fred's life - from store cashiers to American presidents. Astute businessman, visionary arts patron, homespun philosopher - Fred is a man of many parts. His story weaves a chronicle of how to succeed in business, how to shape one's life, how to leave the world a better place, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 Meijer 2009Summary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPBeiser, Vince
Summary: The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world -- sand -- and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other -- even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620.1 BEIGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 GILLeifer, Carol
Summary: For many years, television comedy was an exclusive all boys' club--until a brilliant comedian named Carol Leifer came along, blazing a trail for funny women everywhere. From Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live to Seinfeld, The Ellen Show, and Modern Family, Carol has written for and/or performed on some of the best TV comedies of all time. This hilarious collection of essays...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEIFER, CAROL LEILeiser, Eric
Summary: Here at last is a book for fly tiers, beginners and experts alike, that provides foolproof directions for tying all types of flies. In this book even the beginner knows where he is during every step in the process, from the moment he ties in the waxed thread until he ties off the fly with the whip finish knot. But unlike the specialized books on fly tying that describe particular types or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 LEILik, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press (Peter Lik Publishing) 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.4 LIKMealer, Bryan
Summary: In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEAMeller, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.62 MELReider, Rebecca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.072 REISummary: In a town not so far away and a time not so long ago, baby Rose was left on the porch of Greenwoods Orphanage, where Mrs. Hartley (Nancy Stafford) and the children under her tender care become her family. But when tragedy strikes, Rose (Bailee Johnson) loses the only home she has ever known and she is abruptly shipped to Irongates--a place that seems as cold and cruel as her previous home was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CFisk, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 FISMerser, Cheryl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 MERMeurer, Dave.
Summary: Parenting is not for wimps. When it comes down to it, sometimes parents just have to wing it, says Dave Meurer, father of two rambunctious boys. In this delightful read, Meurer waxes humorously on the miraculous feat of raising boys and staying sane at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011