Epstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Jeffrey)

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 EPS

Cutler, Laurence S.

Summary: "J. C. Leyendecker captured lifestyles with superior technical skills, with an imaginative use of subject, and with an originality that many have sought to imitate. Dubbed the "Master of the Magazine Cover" by Norman Rockwell - who modeled both his technique and his career on his mentor - Leyendecker created illustrations that graced the covers of all the leading magazines, including Collier's,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.6 LEYENDECKER, J.C., CUT

Bergreen, Laurence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS BER

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: "A middle grade adaptation of Bergreen's adult title of the same name, about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 BER

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLUMBUS CHRISTOPHER BER

Leamer, Laurence

Summary: Offering an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories help chart the course of the enigmatic director's career, this mesmerizing account takes a modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed-and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LEA

Bergreen, Laurence

Summary: "The central coast of China, 1405. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951 BER

Leamer, Laurence.

Summary: Focuses on Joseph P. Kennedy's sons and grandsons in the years following the assassination of JFK and features an account of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s life as remembered by ten of his closest friends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KENNEDY FAMILY LEA

Maslon, Laurence.

Summary: Presents a history of the Broadway musical theater, including summaries of the shows, photographs of the stars, posters, sheet music, production stills, and essays by theater luminaries.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.14 KAN

Anholt, Laurence.

Summary: A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANN

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: A portrait of the thirteenth-century explorer, adventurer, and global traveler follows Marco Polo from his youth in Venice to his journey to Asia and role in the court of Kublai Khan, to his return to Europe, and discusses his influence on the history of his era.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLO, MARCO BER

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Polo

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: "A tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance; a startling anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans; and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power."--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.92 BER

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: Publisher's description: Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BER

Leamer, Laurence

Summary: Describes the brutal killing of a young black man and subsequent conviction of two Klansmen in 1981 Alabama and the civil suit that exposed the true motives and philosophy of the organization and ultimately bankrupted them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 LEA

Luckinbill, Laurence

Summary: "Overflowing with his love of nature, adventure, and justice, Teddy illustrates the life of a man for whom being known as one of America's greatest presidents is but one of his notable accomplishments"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUC

Rees, Laurence

Summary: Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 REE

Levy, Lawrence (Lawrence B.)

Summary: "After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple in the early 1990's, while building his failed competitor NeXT, he made a side bet to develop a little-known, barely profitable video graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobscalled Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained attorney, in the hope that Jobs could somehow persuade Levy to join forces with him in his quest to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Levy

Harwood, Laurence

Contents: Introduction -- Friends at Oxford -- Lovers of literature -- Walking tours -- Friendship after Oxford -- Godfather Jack -- My letters from my godfather -- My mother's death -- My failure at Oxford -- Jack's illness and marriage to Joy Davidman -- Jack's last years -- Jack's death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 HAR

Thomas, Clarence

Summary: The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and struggles to acquire an education to his publicly contested confirmation to the nation's highest court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.73 THO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE THO

Donegan, Lawrence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 DON

Halprin, Lawrence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 HAL

Jackson, Lawrence

Summary: "Intimate photos and insights from the only White House photographer of color during the Obama years--including never-before-seen images of the President and First Lady Michelle Obama, and a diverse array of guests, staffers, and candid moments"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 JAC

LaRose, Lawrence.

Summary: Describes how an recently unemployed writer and Manhattanite and his new wife purchased a decrepit fixer-upper in Sag Harbor, New York.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.7 LAR