Summary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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Carlos, Wendy.

Contents: Disk I. Switched-on Bach. Sinfonia to cantata #29 ; Air on a G string ; Two-part invention in F major ; Two-part invention in B-flat major ; Two-part invention in D minor ; Jesu, joy of man's desiring ; Prelude and fugue #7 in E-flat major ; Prelude and fugue #2 in C minor ; Chorale prelude "Wachet auf" ; Brandenburg concerto no. 3 in G major / J.S. Bach. Initial experiments / narr. W. Carlos...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: East Side Digital 1999

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Elkin, Stanley

Contents: Her sense of timing -- Town crier exclusive, confessions of a Princess manqué -- Van Gogh's room at Arles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELK

Elkin, Lauren

Summary: The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ELK

Dakin, Karla.

Contents: Sources of inspiration -- Shapes and patterns -- Creating living spaces -- Wildlife friendly spaces -- Plant-driven environments -- The predesign phase -- Site analysis -- Program -- Master planning and conceptual design -- Design development and construction documents -- Contracts, construction, and maintenance -- The evolving frontier of landscape design.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 DAK

Ebuehi, Benjamina

Summary: "Put flavor first with 60 easy, stylish cakes. Unlock a whole new world of flavor with Benjamina Ebuehi's signature cakes. Inspired by her journey to The Great British Bake Off and beyond, Benjamina's groundbreaking recipes put flavor at the forefront by letting the star ingredients--toasted nuts, fragrant spices, bold herbs and ripe fruit--do all the work. Creations like Plum & Black Pepper...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2019

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Summary: The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CAT

Summary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAN

Elkin, Stanley

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1979

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Elkin, Stanley

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ELK

Elkin, Stanley

Contents: One's ship, by B. Midwood.--In praise of Vespasian, by A. Chester.--Revelation, by F. O'Connor.--In the heart of the heart of the country, by W. H. Gass.--The scream on 57th Street, by H. Calisher.--City boy, by L. Michaels.--The day of trials, by A. Lebowitz.--Dean of men, by P. Taylor.--Mosby's memoirs, by S. Bellow.--Love in the winter, by D. Curley.--The babysitter, by R. Coover.--Harry...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Stories

Summary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAM

Cohen, Benyamin

Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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Wilkomirski, Binjamin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 WIL

Labatut, Benjamín

Summary: "A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.The great mathematician...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2020

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Labatut

Eldin, Peter

Summary: An introduction to performing magic, with instructions for fifteen magic tricks using a deck of playing cards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Beech Books 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.85 ELD

McDonald, Elvin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 McD

Labatut, Benjamín

Summary: "A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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Webster, Rachel J.

Summary: "A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEB

Elkin, H. V.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Linford 1992

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Stein, Ellin.

Summary: Goes behind-the-scenes at the start-up of the humor magazine "The National Lampoon" and travels through the publication's growth as it captured and transformed American culture with a unique, biting brand of subversive humor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 051 STE