Burns, Catherine
Summary: "With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns's debut novel The Visitors explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. "Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURPester, Sophie
Summary: Get creative with upcycling craft projects from this book and discover materials and techniques you have never used before. Includes 52 projects with DIY ideas for every weekend, ranging from jewellery and accessories to home decoration and furniture. Embroider a notebook, print fabric with starfuit, or make a hanging garden for your bathroom. The projects are easy to accomplish, and you can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 PESContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Season in San Francisco -- Season in Southern California -- Street scene / by Elmer Rice -- Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff -- Wings over Europe / Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne -- Holiday / by Philip Barry -- Front page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Let us be gay / by Rachel Crothers -- Machinal / by Sophie Treadwell --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1929
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESSummary: Explores the full arc of George Washington's journey and weaves together dramatic live-action sequences, excerpts from Washington's letters and insights from a roster of notable experts, historians, and scholars to tell a very personal story about the evolution of one of history's most iconic leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WASSummary: Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EUGSummary: "In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997. From James Braly's struggling with what to do when his three-year-old son wants a pink bicycle to Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include Louis C.K., Tig Notaro, John Turturro, and Meg Wolitzer, as well as a hip hop "one hit wonder," an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, and a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill's "secret army" during World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 384.54 MOTBrunner, Bernd
Summary: In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.2 BRURIKE, CATHARINE.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 RIKSlade, Catharine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Art SladeArnold, Catharine
Summary: "Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 ARNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 ARNBYRDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BYRHogarth, Burne.
Summary: 'Dynamic figure drawing' is the most essential - and the most difficult - of all skills for the artist to learn. The hardest problem is to visualize the figure in the tremendouse variety of poses which the body takes in action, poses which plunge the various forms of the body into deep space and show them in radical foreshortening. Foreshortening itself is, in fact, the single most challenging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Hogarth, Burne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HogarthBurn, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 582.16 BURHogarth, Burne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HOGBlankenship, Loyd
Summary: Learning to be a maker has never been more fun. Full-color cartoons and drawings lead you through the steps needed for making a wizard wand, a sanding block, a charging station for your phone or tablet, and a sturdy box with a hidden compartment. You'll learn how to choose and use the right tools, measure and cut properly, sand, glue, and finish your woodworking projects to make them look great.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MakerMedia 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 684 BLABerns, Gregory
Summary: "It's a commonplace to say that we each tell stories about ourselves, trying to shape how others perceive us, and how we perceive ourselves. And the commonplace is true, as far as it goes--which isn't very far at all. As neuroscientist Gregory Berns shows in The Self Delusion, you, I, we don't just tell stories about ourselves. We are the stories--there's no stable personality to tell stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 BERBerns, Gregory
Summary: "What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 BERBerns, Gregory.
Summary: A neuroscientist recounts his efforts to overcome administrative and behavioral hurdles to train his dogs to sit still during an MRI scan, an effort that produced evidence about canine empathy and the human-dog bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BERWeir, Alison.
Summary: Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SWYNFORD, KATHERINE WEIBurn, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howell Book House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.2 Burn,Loyd, Alex.
Summary: "In 2001, Dr. Alexander Loyd discovered how to activate a physical function built into the body that removes the source of up to 95% of all illness and disease. The neuro-immune system can then do its job of healing whatever is wrong in the body. Dr. Loyd's findings were validated by tests and by thousands of people from all over the world who have used The Healing Code system to correct...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2011