Dean, Michelle
Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEAAdler, Renata.
Summary: "For decades, Renata Adler's writing has upheld and defined the highest standards of investigative journalism. A staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler has reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inquiry and Congress. She has also written about cultural matters, films (as chief film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ADLContents: The five-forty-eight / John Cheever -- Distant music / Ann Beattie -- Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw -- Physics / Tama Janowitz -- The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen -- What it was like, seeing Chris / Deborah Eisenberg -- Drawing Room B / John O'Hara -- A sentimental journey / Peter Taylor -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- Smart money / Philip Roth -- Another marvellous thing / Laurie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WONPang, Guek-Cheng
Summary: "Grenada is a Caribbean gem. It has rolling hills of vivid green, dense vegetation, and a tropical climate with impeccably clear waters. Called the Spice Isle, it also enjoys a reputation for producing rich and delicious spices-particularly nutmeg. This book introduces readers to Grenada, including its history, traditions, governmental structure, and celebrations, as well as its modern place in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.9845 PANSummary: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAYContents: I want to hear somebody pray -- PlGewe mwpe, LidGe -- Cromanti cudjo -- Anancy-o, sari baba -- Oko -- Temne woman-o -- Hausa wele -- Blow the man down -- Le pwezon didan la me -- Six figure quadrille -- Jodi Samdi -- For my own money -- I'm rocking my baby to sleep -- Wila-Wila-Wila-mena -- Labour party -- Explanation of pass-play -- Vio ViolGe -- Mary and Martha -- Wila-Wila-mena -- Reel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CARSadler, Anthony
Summary: "On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 SADKishimi, Ichirō
Summary: "The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of twentieth century psychology, The Courage to Be Disliked follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILJohnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: his book provides a history of the schools of Alger County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, along with additional historical information on its various towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4932 JOHStevens, Norma
Summary: "Richard Avedon was arguably the world's most famous photographer--as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper's Bazaar and then Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AVEDON, RICHARD STEContents: Wonderful world (Sam Cooke) -- Deana baby (Johny "Guitar" Watson -- Bim bam (Sam Butera & the Witnesses) -- Baby talk (Jan & Dean) -- All of my life (Sam Cooke) -- Goodnight sweetheart, Goodnight (Untouchables) -- Alley-oop (Dante & the Evergreens) -- Honolulu Lulu (Jan & Dean) -- Crying in the rain (Everly Brothers) -- Eve of destruction (Barry McGuire) -- Go where you wanna go (Mamas & the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOUAdler, Irene
Summary: Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Feder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSAdler, Irene
Summary: In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Faye, Lyndsay
Summary: "Beloved adventuress Irene Adler teams up with her former adversary in a near-deadly inquiry into a room full of eerily stopped grandfather clocks. Learn of the case that cemented the lasting friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade, and of the tragic crime which haunted the Yarder into joining the police force. And witness Stanley Hopkins's first meeting with the remote logician he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ADLWagler, Ira
Summary: "With his singular voice, Ira reveals his experience in BROKEN ROADS. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Ira explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Ira, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future. Ira unapologetically, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGLER, IRA WAGGruber, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.6 GRUSummary: Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy," turning the two town misfits into local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEAron, Nina Renata
Summary: "A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love. "The disease he has is addiction," Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. "The disease I have is loving him." Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming-an intoxicating antidote to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARON, NINA RENATA AROSummary: Witness Adam Sandler's zaniest SNL moments, including the characters of Lucy, the Gap Girl, Canteen Boy, Opera Man, Brian host of the "Denise Show", Bruce Springsteen, and Cajun Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBC Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SATCleary, Brian P.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations present numerous examples of adverbs and their functions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2005