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Summary: "The path to a broader mode of cosmic observation was blazed by a cadre of nineteenth-century amateur astronomers and inventors, galvanized by the advent of photography, spectral analysis, and innovative technology to create the entirely new field of astrophysics. From William Bond, who turned his home into a functional observatory, to John and Henry Draper, a father and son team who were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500.5 HIRAlai
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAAlda, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaAlda, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDHirschfeld, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Pub. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 HIRHirshfield, Jane
Summary: Collects poetry that explores such diverse topics as global warming, sneezing, and our relationship to certainty, possibility, judgment, and grief, while reflecting on the influence of time on human life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HIRAlda, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDHirshfield, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRAlda, 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?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDHIRSCHFELD, AL
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Publisher / Publication Date: APLSD 0000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HIRHirschfeld, Corson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienAlias
Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ALIAline
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIAkon
Contents: Right now (na na na) -- Beautiful (feat. Colby O'Donis and Kardinal Offishall) -- Keep you much longer -- Trouble maker (feat. Sweet Rush) -- We don't care -- I'm so paid (feat. Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy) -- Holla holla (feat. T-Pain) -- Against the grain (feat. Ray Lavender) -- Be with you -- Sunny day (feat. Wyclef) -- Birthmark -- Over the edge -- Freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Motown Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES AKOHirschfield, Brad.
Summary: "We live in a world," says author Hirschfield, "where religion is killing more people than at any time since the Crusades." When it comes to fanaticism, Hirschfield is not speaking abstractly; he once embraced it. As a young man in the early 1980s, he left his family for a group of radical settlers on the West Bank. Now, he has renounced all such rigid delineations of people into totally right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.5 HIRAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAArmstrong, Alun
Summary: Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWButler, Alban
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liturgical Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 ButlerLee, Elan
Summary: It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the games; unless that player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: YA Game Exploding KittensShipton, Alyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SHIStavans, Ilan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 STAHirshfield, Jane
Summary: "The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 2015