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Sancton, Thomas (Thomas Alexander)

Summary: "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTENCOURT, LILIANE SAN

Scales, Helen

Summary: A renowned oceanographer introduces the Great Barrier Reef and its ecosystems, revealing how the reef came to be, its place in the world and what we can all do to help ensure that it is around for future generations to discover and enjoy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.7 SCA

Robinson, Andrew

Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROB

Bannos, Pamela

Summary: Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN BAN

Carrère, Emmanuel

Summary: "Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARRERE, EMMANUEL CAR

Jetté, Irénée

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1967

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 JET

Summary: Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SUL

François, Bill

Summary: "Bill François' Eloquence of the Sardine is a charming narrative nonfiction book about the secret lives of fishes. If we listen to the ocean, what do we hear? What can it teach us? How can it change us? Written by a marine scientist (and winner of French eloquence competitions), this work of narrative non-fiction blends Bill François' personal story with that of sea creatures to create an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRA

Sheen, Michael

Summary: Tells the story of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, two pioneering researchers of human sexuality in the 1950s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment Llc 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAS

Clanton, Ben

Summary: "Narwhal's obsession with his new favorite food leads him into hijinks and hilarity in the third book of this all-star early graphic novel series! Narwhal and Jelly are back and Narwhal has a new obsession... peanut butter! He's so obsessed he even wants to change his name to... that's right... Peanut Butter! Ever-sensible Jelly isn't so sure that's the best idea, but is all for Narwhal trying...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2018

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Kroll, Steven.

Summary: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 784.7 KRO

McGraw, Sheila.

Summary: Shows how to use newspapers, flour and water to create eight projects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1991

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.542 MCG

Summary: A documentary recollection of music and musicians associated with Kansas City, Mo. in the 1930's, featuring Count Basie and his orchestra, Joe Turner, and Jay McShann.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2001

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Harmon, Miranda

Summary: "Three kittens, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Ginger, go on a quest to find the magical ingredients to make Mama Cat's famous cupcakes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HAR

Heaps, Andrew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Longmeadow Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.542 HEA

Lico Albanese, Laurie

Summary: "From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings. In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Albanese 2017

Summary: Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Woman 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED PG-13

Summary: Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIN
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIN

Marks, Ann

Summary: "The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context ofher life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAIER, VIVIAN MAR

Gulland, Sandra.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUL

Frenkel, Françoise

Summary: "In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 FRE

Sockabasin, Allen J.

Summary: "Little Zoo Sap and his family are moving from their summer home on the coast to the deep woods for the winter, traveling on a big bobsled pulled by big horses through the snow. When Zoo Sap falls off of the sled unnoticed, the forest animals hear his cries. First to come are the beaver, who put their tails together to cradle him. Then all the other animals circle round--everyone from the tiny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2014

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Sager, Carole Bayer.

Summary: "In this memoir, Carole Bayer Sager tells the surprisingly frank and darkly humorous story of a woman whose sometimes crippling fears and devastating relationships inspired many of the songs she would ultimately write. She gives a deeply personal account of how love and heartbreak made her the woman, and the writer, she is"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SAGER, CAROLE BAYER SAG

McCalman, Iain.

Summary: "A journey into the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, as experienced by explorers, scientists, and artists The Great Barrier Reef is the most spectacular marine environment on earth, a true wonder of the world. Yet the history of our encounters with ithas long been elusive. In The Reef, the acclaimed historian and explorer Iain McCalman recounts in full the dramatic story of the reef and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994.3 MCC

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