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Alda, Alan

Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Alda

Leopold, Aldo

Summary: Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1968

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Facetti, Aldo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.72 Facetti

Leopold, Aldo

Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEO

Alda, Alan

Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALD

Leopold, Aldo

Summary: In 1953 Aldo Leopold bought 80 acres of badly eroded farmland along a bend of the Wisconsin River. Leopold and his family began to manage and restore the land. Written with the knowledge of a scientist and the eye of a poet.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006

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Summary: A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AAL

Sohm, Aldo

Summary: Aldo Sohm is one of the most respected and widely lauded sommeliers in the world. He's worked with celebrated chef Eric Ripert as wine director of three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin for over a decade, yet his philosophy and approach to wine is much more casual. Aldo's debut book, Wine Simple, is full of confidence-building infographics and illustrations, an unbeatable depth of knowledge,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.2 SOH

Alda, Alan

Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALD

Alda, Alan

Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALD

Frankie

Summary: When Frank Faunce looks at the Church, he sees a sleeping giant full of men and women who think that they are born again simply because they repeated a simple prayer years ago. What these people have never learned, Faunce submits, is that Jesus wants to be both Lord and Savior, that either He or Ego will occupy first place in any human's heart. As the author cleverly states, there is not room...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 FRA

Epstein, Franci

Summary: "The captivating memoir of a spirited and glamorous young Jewish fashion designer who survived the Holocaust, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPSTEIN, FRANCI EPS

Arco.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Arco

Summary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Francina, Suza

Summary: Our changing view of aging : how expectations determine outcome -- How yoga slows down and reverses the aging process -- In praise of props -- Key yoga postures for reversing the aging process -- Yoga for feet and knees over 50 -- Yoga : a reliable companion during menopause -- Weight-bearing yoga postures help prevent osteoporosis -- Yoga techniques to prevent or overcome arthritis -- Opening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 FRA

Summary: A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOO

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: This reference may be ordered from Harry C. Adams 1991

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374 FRA

Furet, Francois

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FUR

Francis

Summary: Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In "The Church of Mercy," readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, this is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FRA

Francis

Summary: Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular global leaders. Now, in this extraordinary interview with journalist Thomas Leoncini, His Holiness reminds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRA

Francis

Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 FRA

Francis

Summary: In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart -- mercy -- which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy. In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli, Francis explains --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 FRA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRA

Francis

Summary: Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 FRA

Francis

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 Fra

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