Summary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANForest, Heather.
Summary: The sun and the wind test their strength by seeing which of them can cause a man to remove his coat, demonstrating the value of using gentle persuasion rather than force as a means of achieving a goal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: August House Little Folk 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 FORForest, Heather.
Summary: Two hungry travelers find a village full of unsharing households until they make a magical soup which starts with a stone, to which each villager contributes a vegetable or spice until a huge pot is prepared for all to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: August House LittleFolk 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 FORForest, Heather.
Summary: Listen along as professional storyteller Heather Forest retells nineteen of Aesop's fables in song.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: August House, Inc. 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 398.245 FORSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Contents: Part of the union / The Brothers (2:55) -- Ordinary boy / Small wonder (2:55) -- The Hertfordshire rock / Ricky Wilde (2:47) -- When work is over / The Kinks (2:06) -- Sailing / The Sutherland Bros Band (2:36) -- In your life / Adam Faith (2:39) -- Londonderry / Phil Cordell (3:08) -- Cut loose / Stud Leather (3:02) -- I'm on fire / The Troggs (2:12) -- Kill / Mike McGear (1:49) -- And the fun...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THRHeying, Heather E. (Heather Elizabeth)
Summary: "For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of many modern woes is clear: the world is out of sync with humans' ancient brains and bodies. The authors cut through the disputes surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower the reader to live a better, wiser life. They distill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 HEYSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Rudy Baylor (Damon) is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woman. Will he be up to the task?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAIWorroll, Jane
Summary: "The activities are designed to help children to get a sense of their place in nature and understand what they can to do help protect it. For air, make kites and whistles out of sticks, or learn to how to predict the weather by reading the clouds. For fire, build a rocket stove, trace the sun's path with a homemade sun dial, or craft a collecting basket, fill it with firewood and then make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2021
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Summary: Rain or shine, this book will get everyone playing outside, developing new skills and discovering the wonder of nature across the year! Written for parents, teachers and anyone else wants to try out Forest School activities, and also as a handy resource for Forest School leaders, it follows on from the bestselling "Play the Forest School Way", with brand-new games and survival skills that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2018
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Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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Summary: "Four fabulous, smart, savvy French women offer up their highly amusing insider take on Parisian life, love, and liberty How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are brilliantly deconstructs the French woman's views on culture, fashion, and attitude. Unlike other books on French style, this one is full of wit and self-deprecating humor. The authors--Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERHeether, Luella
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gateway Press 1983
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 EDGERLY HeetherSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYFeather, Leonard
Summary: "This book is based in part on Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of jazz, The new encyclopedia of jazz, The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties, and on a subsequent work by Mr. Feather and Ira Gitler, The encyclopedia of jazz in the seventies"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 FEABerendt, Joachim-Ernst
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.15 BERGiudice, Teresa
Summary: A star of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" provides more than sixty healthy recipes, including light versions of Italian favorites, including spaghetti bolognese, veal scaloppine, and fettuccine alfredo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 GIUSummary: In Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (Episode #14), the Peanuts gang stars in its own weekly cartoon with the tales "Snoopy's foot," "Snoopy and the Giant," and "Rerun," originally shown in 1985 -- and in "Snoopy's getting married Charlie Brown," Snoopy and Belle are getting married and the gang plans a wedding, originally a TV special shown in 1985.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6374 HEAHeatter, Maida
Summary: "Maida Heatter is one of the most trusted and beloved cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, have inspired extraordinary bakers such as Dorie Greenspan, Christina Tosi, and David Lebovitz, whose foreword introduces the joy of baking with Maida to a new generation. Throughout Maida's nearly 50-year career as a "genius" of baking (New York Times), one thing was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6374 HEAHeatter, Maida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 HEAFeather, Jane.
Summary: Hugh de Beaucaire is sent to investigate Lady Guinevere Mallory, a beautiful young widow who, at age twenty-eight, has married and buried four wealthy husbands under suspicious circumstances, to determine whether or not she is guilty of murder. .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEAFeather, Jane.
Summary: With a brief touch of his hand and one glance of his knowing gray eyes, Lady Philippa Nielson felt a connection to the dark stranger who should have been her greatest enemy, the man who had been appointed guardian of both Pippa and the secret she unknowingly bore.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003