Highsmith, Patricia
Summary: "Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGHSSummary: A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks, and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith₂s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith₂s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOVContents: Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 CHIBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Snow Lion Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 DALStarkey, David.
Summary: Starkey examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 STARKSummary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: 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 NINParamount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAYChen, Patrizia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 CHEParamount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SERDvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
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Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Direct 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL DvorakL'Amour, Louis 1908-1988
Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAM(MAY, 1910 TO APRIL, 1911)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1911
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 352.1 ANNPasricha, Neil
Summary: We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. We’re living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all! But there’s just one side effect. We no longer have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 PASPasricha, Neil
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, a new compilation of awesome things and small joys in our lives that bring us together. Award-winning writer Neil Pasricha brings back his trademark laugh-out-loud observations of the world and encourages us to be positive and find gratitude in the simple, free, odd, and silly."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Canada 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PASBorchert, Wolfgang
Summary: Collection of short stories and a one-act play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [New Directions] 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORPasricha, Neil.
Summary: Focusing on both tangible pleasures and simple experiences, Pasricha provides a contemporary take on everyday inspiration that skips the typical Chicken Soup for the Soul fare: "When you push the button for the elevator and it's already there," ("Ding!"); "When the boss goes out of town" ("Who's up for a three-hour lunch?"); "Peeling that thin plastic film off new electronics" ("Welcome to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.607 PASPasricha, Neil.
Summary: Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, The Book of Awesome is a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments: Popping Bubble Wrap Wearing underwear just out of the dryer Fixing electronics by smacking them Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding Watching The Price Is Right when you're home sick Hitting a bunch of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Summary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TROKuh, Patric
Summary: "An award-winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine and a former restaurant cook profiles the major figures in the so-called artisanal food movement who brought exceptional taste back to food and inspired chefs and restaurateurs to redefine and rethink the way we eat,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016