Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
Summary: The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.025 TUCSummary: In 1974, Bachman-Turner Overdrive was one of the biggest bands in the world with classics like Takin Care of Business and You Aint Seen Nothing Yet. This is the story of its founder Randy Bachman, from his early days with The Guess Who with hits like American Woman to today. As one of the few legendary musical artists to reach #1 in two separate bands, Randy Bachmans singularly focused goal of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BACSummary: Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend. But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABSummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Root of evil: Taggart and Jardine struggle to decipher the clues of pollen, a hanky, and an axe in the brutal murders of merciless local loan sharks. Double jeopardy: A woman's body is discovered in the woods-- an apparent suicide, but Taggart senses murder when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: In Killer, DCI Jim Taggart and graduate constable Peter Livingstone team up to nab a serial killer when one young blonde woman after another turns up dead. In Dead ringer, Taggart's investigation leads to a possible miscarriage of justice when the skeletal remains of a dismembered female are found. In Murder in season, an opera singer returns to Glasgow to perform, but she becomes the main...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGContents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRETuchman, Gail
Summary: Provides simple information about the planets of the solar system and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.4 TUCSummary: In Love Knot, Taggart finds himself in the Scottish Highlands after a woman's body is dredged from the River Clyde with her face deliberately disfigured and her hands bound by climbing rope. In Hostile Witness, members of the Referendum for the Return of Capital Punishment party are killed, and Taggart is pressed for a quick solution to the crime. In Evil Eye, a fortune-telling gypsy is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Funeral rites: Taggart tracks a ruthless killer in an investigation tinged with undertones of voodoo and black magic when a burnt corpse is found in an unused railway tunnel. Cold blood: a wife pumps six bullets into her cheating husband's body and Taggart perceives an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia [distributor] 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGTuchman, Gail.
Summary: Young readers are invited along on an African safari where they can see elephants spraying, lions playing, and hippos soaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.96 TucTuchman, Gail.
Summary: Young readers are invited along on an automobile race, where they can see what it is like to race, take pit stops, and zoom around other cars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.72 TucWertheim, Margaret.
Summary: Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 WERWertheim, Stephen
Summary: "For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WERBarbera, Paul
Summary: This is not a book about cats. Nor is it a book on interiors. It is somewhere in-between: a look at how cats and interiors interact, and how cats become a fundamental part of one's home. Really, it is about how a cat completely takes over their home. House Cat is a celebration of fifty-seven charismatic cats and the incredible spaces that they nonchalantly wander. From Grace Coddington's famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 747.0869 BARWertheim, L. Jon.
Summary: In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Centre Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. Yet in the last few moments of daylight, swashbuckling Spaniard Rafael Nadal prevailed in what was, according to the author, "essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 WERTuckman, Ari
Summary: This pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple's sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that's especially important for couples with one partner with ADHD. Grounded in innovative research, ADHD After Dark draws on data from a survey of over 3000 adults in a couple where one partner has ADHD. Written from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2020
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Summary: This collection of stories explores the many ways people try to connect to each other and the world around them, from a newly single mother who interferes with her son's love life to a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbassa, Juliana
Summary: Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981 BARBarbery, Muriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.6 FIC BARSzuchman, Paula.
Summary: Outlines an approach to relationships grounded in economic theory that challenges popular beliefs while explaining how strategies in such areas as comparative advantage, resource allocation, and incentives can revitalize a marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 646.78 SZUTashman, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation TashmanZachman, Kim
Summary: "From soda to water to milk and juice, There's No Cream in Cream Soda, the refreshing follow-up to There's No Ham in Hamburgers, is full of fun facts and stories of the origins of some of America's most popular drinks"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2023