Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMFölsing, Albrecht
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EINDurer, Albrecht
Contents: I. Introduction to Dürer / Simon Monneret -- II. Dürer by himself : Plates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Excalibur Books : distributed by Bookthrift 1980
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.3 DURDürer, Albrecht
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 769.924 DURAlbrecht, Kat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.289 ALBDürer, Albrecht
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1973
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Summary: "In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.009 LEBHoward, Love Albrecht.
Contents: The journey from gardener to designer -- Turning your passion into your profession -- Beyond horticulture 101 -- The green industry: a greener shade of green -- Pathways, walls, and fences -- Patios, decks, and other living spaces -- Water features -- Spas, pools, and poolscaping -- Irrigation, drainage, and lighting -- Occupational hazards: lions and tigers and bears, oh my! -- Defining your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 HOWSummary: An examination of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to document her rehearsal process and interest in the work. Moreover, the life and times of Brecht himself are followed, most notably the playwrites' escape from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THEAlbright, Rosie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach AlbrightWolbrecht, Christina
Summary: "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 WOLAlbright, Rosie.
Summary: Introduces detection rats, most of which are African pouched rats, the largest rat in the world, and explains that rats can be trained to find land mines and dangerous diseases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach AlbrightAlbright, Rosie.
Summary: Introduces police dogs and the K-9 units to which they belong, describes their training, and explains the many important jobs they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 ALBCarrisi, Donato
Summary: Investigators Mila Vasquez and Goran Gavila unravel the layers of a series of twisted murders that begin with the discovery of the severed arms of five missing girls who were abducted in broad daylight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMiller, Donalyn.
Summary: "Explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, [the book] offers ... advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 372.4 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.4 MILRyan, Donal
Summary: Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fatal encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYARyan, Donal
Summary: While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2014
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Summary: A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOBMaggipinto, Donata.
Summary: These days, Halloween is the most popular holiday next to Christmas. At its heart are family and friends having fun together-which is what this book is all about. In this cornucopia of creative Halloween ideas, simple crafts, tasty treats, and ghoulish good times abound. From delicious "one cauldron" dinners such as creamy pumpkin soup to luscious devil's food cake and black cat cookies, here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 MAGMiller, Donalyn.
Summary: Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.6 MILMontanari, Donata.
Summary: Twelve children from different countries describe how they live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 390 MONAlbright, Madeleine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBRIGHT, MADELEINE ALBAlbright, Rosie.
Contents: A big job -- In training -- Taking a break.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach AlbrightDonato, Joao
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021