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Grumbach, Doris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GRU

Sciolino, Elaine

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Summary: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016

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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.

Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAP

Beston, Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 BES

Kane, Barry.

Summary: Encourages everyone to use their imagination and explore nature to create, invent, learn, and build fairy houses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Light-Beams Pub. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fai Kane

Haines, John Meade

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINES, JOHN HAI

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KIN

Grumbach, Doris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 Grumb

Grumbach, Doris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GRU

Richardson, Sarah

Summary: "Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson takes readers inside her personal style at home. Following up on the smash success of Sarah Style, renowned designer Sarah Richardson delivers a unique aspirational design book that walks us through her homes. From downtown Toronto to rural Ontario to the shores of Georgian Bay, the homes of Sarah and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 RIC

Lende, Heather

Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 Lende 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LEN

Miles, Kathryn

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 MIL

Begley, Louis.

Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEG

Bard, Elizabeth.

Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARD

Lende, Heather

Contents: Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 LEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENDE, HEATHER LEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Lende

Hunt, Samantha

Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUN

Heinrich, Bernd

Summary: Naturalist Heinrich spends a year living in a log cabin he built, with no running water or electricity, conducting research on ravens, songbirds, insects, and mosses, and recounting his day-today experiences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 HEI

Blume, Lesley M. M.

Summary: "The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 BLU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST BLU

Betts, Kate

Summary: As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college--and not without trepidation--she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTS, KATE BET

Shulman, Alix Kates.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SHU

Lende, Heather

Summary: "Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENDE, HEATHER LEN

Federspiel, Michael R.

Summary: "Up north" during Hemingway's time, 1899-1921 --The Hemingway family in Michigan --Ernest's Michigan: fact and fiction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 813.52 Federspiel 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 813.53 FED

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 813.52 FED
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 813.52 FED

Griswold, Mac K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRI

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