Summary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019
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Summary: The comprehensive guide to the 2023–2024 ACT test―including 8 genuine, full-length practice tests. The Official ACT Prep Guide 2023–2024 book includes six authentic ACT tests―all of which contain the optional writing test―so you get maximum practice before your test date. These full-length practice tests are also available on the Wiley Online Platform and mobile app alongside two additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.1662 OFFGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of "On the Nature of Things" by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers, and scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 GREGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 233 GREGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 GREGreenblatt, Jonathan
Summary: Drawing on decades of experience in fighting hate through investigative research, education programs, and legislative victories, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League issues a warning on the rise of intolerance in the United States and offers a primer onhow to strike back against hate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 GREGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: A young man from the provinces a man without wealth, connections, or university educatiońmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM GREGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 GreenGreenblatt, Joel.
Summary: A hedge fund manager and Columbia Business School professor shows, in step-by-step fashion, how "beating the market" can be made simple and easy for investors of any age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.63 GREGreenblatt, Joel.
Summary: "A runaway bestseller even before it was published, the Little book that beats the market shows how successful investing can be made easy for investors of any age."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2006
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Contents: Cool zombie -- Stay in the game -- Marrying the gunner's daughter -- Vince Taylor -- Valentines -- Darlin' boy -- Dirty beast -- Punkyoungirl -- Sausage -- Cradle your hatred -- Hardmentoughblokes -- Shrink -- Vivienne's tears -- Who's a goofy bunny? -- How can I say I miss you? -- Bullshit -- How can I say I miss you? (reprise).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blueblack Hussar Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANTFuller, A.C.
Summary: "Someone in Seattle is murdering journalists ... and Alex Vane might be next. On a cold, rainy night in Seattle, a legendary journalist is found face down in the street below a posh high-rise. Local police are calling it a suicide, but Alex Vane sees signs of murder. With help from a brash young journalist, Alex pieces together clues from the dead man's extraordinary career. But an unexpected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life. She has been pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate--until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Summary: Chronicles the history of the Black Joke, a ship in the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and its quest to liberate as many enslaved people as possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 ROOWasek, A.A.
Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011
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Contents: Zerox (3:45) -- Whip in my valise (3:57) -- Car trouble (3:24) --Kick (2:06) -- Kings of the wild frontier (3:53) -- Antmusic (3:34) -- Dog eat dog (3:06) -- Los rancheros (3:26) -- Killer in the home (4:18) -- Stand and deliver (3:33) -- Beat my guest (3:10) -- Prince charming (3:16) -- Ant rap (3:23) -- Desperate but not serious (4:12) -- Place in the country (2:50) --Friend or foe (3:22) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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Summary: "John McAllister has come to a crossroads, torn between the stability of his life in the Highlands and the thrill of working as a renowned journalist in Glasgow at a national daily newspaper. Can he accept that this exciting new phase is over? That it is time to settle down? Before he knows it, McAllister is in the midst of a fast-paced hunt for his good friend Jimmy McPhee, who is involved in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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Summary: In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor's thoughts and speech. Effectively mute, there's no telling if her voice will ever come back. Trapped in silence, she is surrounded by ghosts—of the past, of friendships and trusts lost...of a lost faith in herself and her motives that night. When Memphis Highsmythe offers Taylor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rudra press 1993