Machlin, Edda Servi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.567 MACSummary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 RICKeahey, John.
Summary: "Hidden Tuscany vividly displays the coastal areas of Tuscany, a territory often overlooked by visitors to Italy eager to see Chianti, Florence or Siena. Veteran journalist and Italophile John Keahey points out the keen distinctions that the western cities maintain: in food, lifestyle, and the way its artists are paving new directions in art that differ mightily from the Renaissance-rich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5 KEAHahn, Emanuel
Summary: "A successful self-published project, now in a new and expanded trade package, Koreatown Dreaming offers readers an intimate look into the lives of shopkeepers and small business owners in Los Angeles Koreatown. A touching homage to Korean immigrants everywhere, this book will resonate with the growing audience of people interested in Korean culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 HAHWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOLeBor, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.948 LEBSummary: A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States. Seven years in the making, this documentary explores Hasidic homes, schools, and ceremonies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFCrawford, Elisabeth Antoine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Equilibrio 2009
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Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEJones, Tobias.
Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER: In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.093 JONPolydoros, Aden
Summary: "Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLSidran, Ben.
Summary: A comprehensive examination of Jewish influence and participation in the American popular music business, that weaves together cultural, political, musical and economic history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nardis Books, an imprint of Unlimited Media Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SIDBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROSummary: Set during Gandhi's rise to power, Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WATBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BRESummary: A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WINPhelps, Daphne.
Summary: A modest, independent Englishwoman shares her memories of her home in Sicily, Casa Cuseni, that was a get away for such visitors as Tennessee Williams, Bertrand Russell, and Henry Faulkner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 PHELPS, DAPHNE PHENorwich, John Julius
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 NOREstes, Meleana
Summary: "Explore Hawai'ian culture through the art of lei making with flower inspirations and gorgeous photography from stylist, fashion designer, and local island icon Meleana Estes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.92 ESTVolk, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.5 VOLSmith, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SMIFerrante, Elena
Summary: Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERLovell, Mary S
Summary: The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 LOVFerrante, Elena
Summary: The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila have made life's great discoveries, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Now, in a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous-- and in a world undergoing epochal change-- Lila and Elena clash,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015