Foster, David R.
Summary: In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through 19th-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 FOSSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACDavis, David (David R.)
Summary: Santa flies in on a bookmobile to bring a poor library gifts. In a parody of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore, a harried librarian and her facility get a surprise holiday visit from Santa and his bookmobile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. Co. 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chapman & Hall 1965
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1931
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 810.8 MOSLester, David
Summary: "Prophet against Slavery illustrates the life and times of an eighteenth-century dwarf abolitionist who performed guerrilla theater against slaveowners and became one of the first to demand immediate and abolition"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 LESDavid, Lester.
Summary: This revelatory, memorable book by the dean of America's Kennedy writers begins where the bestselling phenomenon A Woman Named Jackie left off, going even further into the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Lester David evokes in fascinating detail what happened to Jackie after her marriage to Aristotle Onassis. When she died, after a determined battle with cancer, her passing brought forth an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ONASSIS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY DavFoster, Patrick R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 FosterBrown, Lester R. (Lester Russell)
Summary: Discusses the geopolitics of food security in the face of scarcity caused by falling water tables, soil erosion, and global warming and supports the position that food is the new oil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BROFoster, R F
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 FOSWallace, David Foster.
Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814.54 WALFisher, David
Summary: The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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Summary: How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman -- and was he African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: HistUS FisherWallace, David Foster.
Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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Summary: David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there is more than one kind of infinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 511.3 WALWallace, David Foster.
Summary: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 1997
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Summary: "Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in "This is Water". How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 WALWallace, David Foster
Summary: Both a onetime "near-great junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis with the authority of an insider, the showmanship of a literary pyrotechnician, and disarming admiration of an irrepressible fan. Including his masterful profiles of Roger Federer and Tracy Austin, String Theory gathers Wallace's five famous essays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library of America] 2016
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Summary: A poem based on ancient legends about the northern lights from people who associated the fiery illuminations with animals, ghosts, dancers, and raging battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 538.768 ESBDAIN, FLOYD R
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1956
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 DAIFisher, David
Summary: "From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FISCopies Available at Peninsula
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Publisher / Publication Date: FACTS 0000
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Summary: Concludes "The Missionaries" story line, in which Val travels to Rome on a quest to bring teachers to preach Christianity in Thule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2014