Winchester, Kent.
Summary: Answers common questions about divorce, its effects on the family, relationships with parents after a divorce, and related matters, and provides observations from children who have experienced a divorce in their families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 WINKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENContents: Lil' Pony (Georgie Fame) (2:30) -- She Used To Love Me A Lot (Johnny Cash) (3:21) -- Lonesome Road (Gene Austin) (2:26) -- Her Hair Was Red (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell) (2:39) -- It Takes Time (Otis Rush) (2:47) -- Overachiever (Larkin Poe) (3:34) -- Flutter (The Unthanks) (3:36) -- Tom Dooley (Doc Watson) (3:14) -- Little White Lies (Annette Hanshaw) (2:55) -- Jubilee Street (Nick Cave &...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJWinchester, Simon
Summary: Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.4 WINWinchester, Simon
Summary: Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Winchester blends history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, and science and exposition, to relate the saga of the Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 551.46 WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Chronicle of the author's adventures following the often difficult course of the Yangtze River in China, providing a portrait of the vast country, its history, politics, geography, climate, and culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.12 WINWinchester, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.09 WINWinchester, Jesse.
Contents: If I were free (2:40) -- Thanks to you (3:11) -- They just can't help themselves (4:37) -- Too weak to say goodbye (4:15) -- Let's make a baby king (4:50) -- Well-a-wiggy (3:59) -- I don't think you love me anymore (2:50) -- Willow (5:01) -- Humour me (3:38) -- I want to mean something to you (4:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: A portrait of the mid-twentieth-century scientist and adventurer traces his British government mission to China, his love affair with visiting student Lu Gwei-Djen, and his pivotal influence on the Western world's understanding of China's culture and history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 509.2 WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surverying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Contents: O what a thrill -- Bless your foolish heart -- Wear me out (with Jerry Douglas) -- Stand by me -- It's a shame about him -- Sham-a-ling-dong-ding -- I'm gonna miss you girl -- I turn to my guitar -- Lonely for a while -- Eulalie -- Far side bank of Jordan -- Loose talk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Appleseed Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WINWinchester, Simon
Summary: From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 306.4 WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution. Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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Summary: Simon Winchester profiles the life and work of Joseph Needham, a man who, in the mid-20th century, dedicated his life to studying the history of Chinese science. He would go on to write the definitive history of China's scientific progress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 509.2 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Needham 2008Winchester, Simon.
Summary: Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 423 WINWinchester, Simon
Summary: Land--whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city--is central to our existence. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing, and have done, with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 333.3 WINWinchester, Simon
Summary: The author follows in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators to offer a new perspective on how the most powerful nation on Earth came together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WINWinchester, Simon
Summary: "The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future." -- Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 WINWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.4 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.4 WinchesterWinchester, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Contents: Free Years Later(3:52 min) -- Good Youtes Walk Amongst Evil(4:25 min) -- Trouble(5:02 min) -- Pan-Fried / feat. Kojo Funds(3:30 min) -- Can't Hold We Down / feat. Popcaan(4:27 min) -- Teardrops(4:23 min) -- Bang Down Your Door(1:32 min) -- Got My Brandy, Got My Beats / feat. Lil Silva(3:46 min) -- Class of Deja / feat. D Double E & Ghetts(3:29 min) -- SYM(4:50 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parlophone Records 2019