Iyer, Pico
Summary: "From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief. For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife Hiroko have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952 IYESummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Iyer, Pico
Summary: After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both hauntingly familiar and the strangest place on earth. "Arguably the world's greatest living travel writer" (Outside). He draws on readings, reflections, and conversations with Japanese friends to illuminate an unknown place for newcomers, and to give longtime residents a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZHunt, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUNVilloro, Juan
Summary: Collection of two decades' writing about Mexico City, combining personal stories with vivid evocations and chronicles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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Summary: Explores the inspiration for A.A. Milne's fictional Hundred Acre Wood, South-East England's Ashdown Forest, and how it influenced the author's famous works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 DYEHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINHolm, Tom
Summary: "The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes--a Native American icon and World War 2 legend who spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYES, IRA HOLWard, Logan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WARNardo, Don
Summary: Describes the events in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," from the causes of the Trojan War to the legendary Greek and Trojan characters, the end of the war, and Odysseus's harrowing journey home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2012
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Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home WardSaran, Suvir.
Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59747 SARIyer, Pico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 950.42 IYERaban, Jonathan.
Summary: An account of life in American from a British perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edward Burlingame Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 RABIyer, Pico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 IYERichardson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 RICWheeler, Sara
Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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Contents: January stars -- February sea -- Ocean waves -- Reflection -- Rain/dance -- Blossom/meadow -- The Venice dreamer: part 1, intro.; Part 2.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill Records 1982
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL NEW AGE WINNoël Hume, Ivor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5 NOELutes, Della T. (Della Thompson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.973 LUTDe Courcy, Anne
Summary: "In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020