Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Lynn, Andrea.
Summary: Provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for making customized and organic sodas that use an inexpensive home carbonator and a wide range of fruits, herbs and spices not usually found in pop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.875 LYNSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RushContents: Barcarolle / Offenbach (Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra ; Janos Sandor, conductor) (3:27) -- Valse Triste / Sibelius (Dresden Philharmonic ; Herbert Kegel, conductor) (4:41) -- Liebestraum no. 3 in A flat / Liszt (Doantella Failoni, piano) (4:12) -- Minuet / Boccherini (Budapest Strings) (3:32) -- Oboe concerto in D minor (excerpt) / Bach (Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe ; New Leipzig Bach Collegium...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LaserLight 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MEDSummary: As 27-year old Jancsi boards a train in Budapest heading for France, he begins a journey into his past, reminiscencing about his lifelong friend, Kata.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Forum 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIWatson, Andre.
Summary: In his late twenties, Andre Watson left everything behind and traveled the world for seven months. When he finally came home, his friends and coworkers had a million questions. How did he save up so much money? How did he decide where to go? How did he stay safe, especially when he couldn't speak the language? So he decided to write a book. A Weekend or the World answers all the most common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 5020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.61 WATDubus, Andre
Summary: "The 1986 highway accident that resulted in Dubus being largely confined to a wheelchair is an event that is by now familiar to readers of his award-winning short stories (Dancing After Hours, etc.) and previous collection of personal essays (Broken Vessels, 1991). In these 25 spare and luminous essays, most of which have previously appeared in magazines like the New Yorker, Harper's and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? Can he find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: After their parents divorce in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUBUS, ANDRE DUBNorton, Andre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORWilliams, Andre
Contents: Dirt -- A good day to feel bad -- Hoods and shades -- Jaw dropper -- Hu-matic man -- Mojo Hannah -- Swamp Dogg's hot spot -- Gimme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodshot Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WILAndre, Bella.
Summary: Having been physically abused in a past relationship, Chloe Peterson has sworn off men, but then renowned photographer Chase Sullivan helps her get her car out of a ditch--and that chip off her shoulder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDDubus, Andre
Summary: Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society -- these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDubus, Andre
Summary: "Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUBDubus, Andre
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Publisher / Publication Date: VINTA 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUBGide, Andre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1959
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 849.912 GIDNorton, Andre.
Summary: "Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shann, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father with a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind." --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORRush, Andre
Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022
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Summary: From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.342 AGADomine, Andre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Konemann 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.22 DOMDubus, Andre
Summary: Collection of fourteen short stories which explore the mysteries of everyday life by an award winning contemporary American author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996