Summary: "On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 136 years of baseball history, only 276 no-hitters have been recorded. Dock is the only pitcher to ever claim he accomplished his while high on LSD. During his 12 years in the major leagues, Dock lived the expression "Black is Beautiful!" He wore curlers on the field. He stepped out of his Cadillac wearing the widest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOEllin, Abby
Summary: Abby Ellin was shocked to learn that her fiancé was leading a secret life. But as she soon discovered, the world is full of people who aren't what they seem. From Abby Ellin's first date with the Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within six months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together. But soon, his exotic stories of international espionage began to unravel. Finally, it all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ELLStein, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 051 STEHall, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5974 BLASummary: The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CENHorner, John R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.9 HORMellin, Laurel.
Contents: A revolution from within -- Brain basics -- It's just a wire! -- What's a brain state? -- How brain states get stuck -- Getting wired for joy : your personal plan -- How to score a joy point -- Knowing your number -- The tools of transformation -- Break that stress circuit! -- Personal freedom -- Joy no matter what.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1 MELSummary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Summary: An introduction to performing magic, with instructions for fifteen magic tricks using a deck of playing cards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Beech Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.85 ELDMcDonald, Elvin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 McDElgin, Kathy.
Summary: France's rich cultural heritage has often expressed itself through fashions for any occasion. Find out what men and women in France wear for work and relaxation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Clubhouse 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.009 ELGYellin, Emily
Summary: Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of American women's experience during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 YELDong, Li.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN CHIElkin, Stanley
Contents: Her sense of timing -- Town crier exclusive, confessions of a Princess manqué -- Van Gogh's room at Arles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKMellin, Laurel.
Summary: A program for overcoming behavioral excesses, including alcoholism, overeating, overspending, and perfectionism, in order to achieve emotional and spiritual balance includes examples, case histories, and supporting scientific evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MELElgin, Kathy.
Summary: Find out how the clothes and fabrics found in Italy are coveted worldwide and how the Roman Catholic Church has influenced clothing and culture in Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Clubhouse 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 391.009 ELGElkin, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ELKElling, Brian
Summary: Over 300 side-splitting jokes based on the New York Times best-selling series. If you want to know exactly why Milton Hershey's wife married him, look no further. (Because she wanted lots of Hershey's Kisses!) This hilarious and original collection of jokes featuring all the subjects of the ever-popular Who Was? series will keep kids laughing right through history class!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAYDOS, ELLYN GAYSatter, Ellyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kelcy Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2083 SATYellin, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.53 YELYellin, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.812 YELSummary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEFSummary: For decades, mysterious messages in the form of colorful 'tiles' have appeared, pasted on the streets of major cities up and down the western hemisphere. Containing the same bizarre, unsettling message, which seems to concern resurrecting the world's dead, most people walk over them without a thought, until now. Justin Duerr, long obsessed with the tiles, has begun a quest to unearth both their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2012