Kandinsky, Wassily
Summary: This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guggenheim Museum 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.7 KanSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "Five legendary sessions (originally released 1956-1964) featuring an all-star line-up including: Julio Gutiérrez, Niño Rivera, José Fajardo and Cachao. Reissued together in their entirely for the first time, encapsulating a panorama of Cuban music; from mambo to Afro-Cuban rumba, big band son montuno, cha-cha-cha and more." Package label.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMBrett, Ivan
Summary: "With 100 games to start a party, ideas to trigger conversation, storytelling setups, and fiendish puzzles--no materials required--The Floor Is Lava is a how-to for turning screen-free time into quality time. Put down the phone and pick up the fun! Analogplay is known to stimulate imaginative thinking, problem solving, and interpersonal connection. However, games only seem to exist on screen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Gallery Books] 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.2 BREFrench, Vivian.
Summary: A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals FrenchSummary: In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth's resources, the group slowly adjusts to their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDSummary: Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OPECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OPESummary: A man must move hundreds of millions of dollars for an armored truck company in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRASummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHESummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Follows five young Mexican-American caddies in 1955 who, fueled by their passion for golf, defy the odds by creating their own course in the South Texas desert. Despite facing outdated equipment and a lack of professional instruction, they triumph over wealthier, all-white teams to win the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONBarnette, Abigail.
Summary: Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn't know why he's been set up with Penny Parker. She's unrelentingly positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced-everything Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility of a life he'd given up hoping for . . . with a woman he would never have expected.Contains mature themes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchBarnet, Charlie.
Contents: Cherokee/Redskin Rhumba -- Serenade to May (Wings over Manhatten) -- Moten Swing -- Pompton Turnpike -- East Side, West Side -- Charleston Alley -- Skyliner -- Blue Juice -- Wild Mab of the Fishpond -- Southern Fried -- Smiles -- Evergreens -- Stardust -- Take the "A" Train -- Goodbye -- Early Autumn -- Flying Home -- I Can't Get Started -- Begin the Beguine -- Darn That Dream -- Midnight Sun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Musicwerks 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BARSummary: A young restaurant worker does whatever it takes to become a millionaire, only to realize that by accomplishing his goal he has wound up in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IBarnet, Andrea
Summary: This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women showed what one person speaking truth to power can do. With a keen eye for historical detail, Andrea Barnet traces the arc of each woman's career and explores how their work collectively changed the course of history. Consummate outsiders, each prevailed against powerful and mostly male...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018