Mitchell, Maia
Summary: Follows the misadventures of Jessie and Angela, best friends and high school dropouts, who plan to spend a week at the beach as things begin to go awry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEVAugustine
Summary: The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 242 AUGAugustine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Books/Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 252 AUGAugustine
Summary: One of the great works of Western literature, from perhaps the most important thinker of Christian antiquity, in a revolutionary new translation by one of today's leading classicists Sarah Ruden's fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine's intent than any previous version. It puts a glaring spotlight on the life of one individual to show how all lives have meaning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE, SAINT AUGAugustine
Summary: In this book, which corresponds to Book Ten of the Confessiones, Augustine pursues his meditation on the self and his intimate testimony to God by moving from his life before baptism to his entrance into a holy life and embrace of the Trinity, the celebration of which will occupy him for the remaining chapters. Augustine contemplates this transition within his own memory, for to him, the "vast...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 AUGAugustine
Summary: St. Augustine's view of history and humanity reflect his dedication to Christian thought and theology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239 AUGAugustine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 AUGAugustine
Summary: According to Garry Wills, most readers of Augustine interpret his meditation on sin in the Confessiones as an indication of his obsession with sex. But as Wills suggests in his discussion of book two of Augustine's influential work, sexual transgression is not Augustine's main focus as he reflects on the nature of human sinfulness. Instead, Augustine seeks to understand man's power to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 WILAugustine
Summary: "St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, is one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defense of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239.3 AUGFrizzell, Lefty
Contents: I love you a thousand ways -- If you've got the money I've got the time -- Shine shave shower (it's Saturday night) -- Look what thoughts will do -- My baby's just like money -- Give me more more more (of your kisses) -- I want to be with you always -- How long will it take (to stop loving you) -- Always late (with your kisses) -- Mom and Dad's waltz -- Treasure untold -- Travellin' blues --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Proper Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FRIFrisell, Bill.
Contents: Lookout for hope (6:27) / Bill Frisell -- Little brother Bobby (6:57) / Bill Frisell -- Hangdog (2:24) / Bill Frisell -- Remedios the beauty (6:18) / Bill Frisell -- Lonesome (4:36) / Bill Frisell -- Melody for Jack (3:26) / Bill Frisell -- Hackensack (2:51) / Thelonious Monk -- Little bigger (3:10) / Bill Frisell -- The animal race (1:56) / Bill Frisell -- Alien prints (for D. Sharpe) (6:26) /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FRIFrizzell, Lefty
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242 AUGAugustin, Marion
Summary: "As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them - about where all the art they see in their lives started"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 700.9 AUGSedgewick, Augustine
Summary: "The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed thinking about how the human body works as well as ideas about the relationship of one person's work to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 SEDThompson, Augustine.
Summary: A new examination of the saint's life reveals his devotion to poverty might not have been his principal spiritual concern, while also exploring his upbringing, family relations, and journey to sainthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, OF ASSISI, SAINT THOAugustin, Byron
Summary: "Andorra is one of the smallest states in Europe, but that doesn't mean it's not important. Readers uncover fun facts and essential information about this microstate with the help of up-to-date main text and detailed sidebars. Chapters focusing on the history, government, and economic climate of Andorra support social studies curriculum topics, while chapters focusing on leisure time, food, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 946.7 AUGAugustin, Marion
Summary: "In this informative graphic novel sequel, two kids and their grandpa continue their adventurous guided exploration of art and civilization beginning with the Renaissance and moving forward into modern art"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.04 AUGAugustyn, Brian.
Summary: What would the Gotham City of one hundred years ago have been like? In an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike? Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all, a man with other matters to attend to. His name? No one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATFriddell, Claudia.
Summary: When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PULFrissell, Toni
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andre Deutsch 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FRIFriddell, Claudia
Summary: "Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1978
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.4 MARAgustin, Rafael
Summary: "What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022