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Calhoun, Ada Detective and mystery stories Authorship Father and child II, King of Mauretania Juba approximately 50 B.C.-approximately 24 A.D McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler) 1922-1991 O'Hara, Frank 1926-1966 Parent and child Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania Cleopatra 40 B.C.- Schjeldahl, Peter United StatesFilter By Series
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Historical guides to American authorsMitchell, Stephen
Summary: Chiefly commentary on biblical excerpts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.1 MITEvans, Rachel Held
Summary: If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her--and it will change you too. Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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Summary: "Looking back to the women of Exodus as well as to women around the world today, this book presents a paradigm for women that highlights the biblical mandate to join the liberation work in our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222.12 NIKYolen, Jane
Summary: "The inimitable Jane Yolen has teamed up with Barbara Diamond Goldin (a prolific author in her own right) to retell Bible stories from the point of view of twelve women (in nine chapters, as some come in pairs). After each story, there is a reflection "imagine" piece written from the voice of each woman (written by Barbara) and a poem about her (written by Jane). Intermixed with the main text...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Belief YolenHess, Barbara.
Contents: Willem de Kooning: An Erasure 6 -- From Rotterdam to New York 10 -- De Kooning's Women: Scandal and Success 30 -- De Kooning in East Hampton: Almost a Pastorale 50 -- Launching into the Third Dimension: Sculptures 62 -- Between Remembering and Forgetting: Late Paintings, the 1970s and 1980s 72.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.3 HESDuchan, Joshua S.
Summary: Music historian Joshua Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the unique ways Joel transforms the cultural life of a changing America over four decades into bestselling song after song and album after album. Original interviews with Joel blend with Duchan's engaging analysis to provide readers of all backgrounds and ages a new look at Joel's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOEL, BILLY DUCLeamer, Laurence
Summary: Offering an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories help chart the course of the enigmatic director's career, this mesmerizing account takes a modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed-and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LEADrosnin, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 221.68 25Ladin, Joy
Contents: Introduction: shipwrecked with God -- The genesis of gender -- Trans experience in the Torah -- Close encounters with an incomprehensible God -- Reading between the binaries -- Knowing the soul of the stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brandeis University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3086 LADDrummond, Richard Henry.
Summary: "Surveys the life and times of Muhammad and the rise of Islam, including the prophet's visions and the politics that shaped his message"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 DRUKing, Ross
Summary: Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONET, CLAUDE KINBoström, Mattias
Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 BOSBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: An analysis of Georges Seurat's famous painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, including where and when it was made, interesting details, and the techniques used to create a sense of stillness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams in association with the Art Institute of Chicago 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.44 SEUSummary: "Whether you are new to the poetry and proses of Shakespeare, and in need of a guide through the complex plots and unfamiliar language, or looking for a fresh perspective on his much-loved plays and sonnets, this book will shed light on the work of one of world literature's greatest figures"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEADowns, Linda Bank.
Summary: Poster in pocket inside back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.972 DOWSchoenberger, Nancy.
Summary: For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, brawling masculinity, was a son of Irish immigrants and was renowned as a director for both his craftsmanship and his brutality. John "Duke" Wayne was a mere stagehand and bit player in "B"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SCHThomas, John L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 THOMcMillian, John Campbell.
Summary: "Based on exhaustive research in primary sources, including overlooked teen magazines and underground newspapers, 'Beatles vs. Stones' tells a vital story of the 1960s through the lens of music's greatest rivalry. This is the definitive account of the friendship and rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones."--Back jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 MCMDraycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: Explores the ways in which Apostle Paul's edicts may have been misinterpreted, in an account that translates his writings from Koine Greek to assess how he may have been wrongly perceived as a misogynist and social conformist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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Summary: "In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a nation. A man renowned for many talents, writing was one of the major activities of the stateman's life, though much of his best, most influential writing--with the exception of the letters he wrote up to his death, numbering approximately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS KAPCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022