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City and town life Alaska Haines Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Haines Haines (Alaska) Biography Haines (Alaska) Social life and customs Lende, Heather 1959- Lende, Heather 1959- Family Lende, Heather 1959- Friends and associates Lendl, Ivan 1960- McEnroe, John 1959- Outdoor life Alaska HainesSummary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Summary: Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONSummary: "December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. Only concern: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his Corsican producers, the jealousy of his wife, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CYRSummary: Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASLende, Heather
Summary: "Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENDE, HEATHER LENLende, Heather
Summary: An obituary writer in a small town in Alaska describes how to live a fuller and more exhilarating life by simply finding the positive aspects of every experience, encouraging readers to make the most of every day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help LendeLende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 Lende 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENLende, Heather
Contents: Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.8 LENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LENDE, HEATHER LENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem LendeLender, Stacey
Summary: Priced out of Manhattan, Jessica, Aaron and their daughters move to the one place they swore they would never go: the suburbs. But to her surprise, life in the commuter belt makes a great first impression.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENBrende, Eric.
Summary: The author and his spouse spent 18 months in Amish country living without electricity and its dependent technologies. Here he recounts the experience, not only detailing the daily activities and frequent difficulties they found necessary to maintain existence without electricity, but also touting the benefits of such a life and exploring the culture of their adopted community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 BRENazer, Mende.
Summary: The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was able to gain her freedom seven years later while living and working for her master's sister in London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 NAZLenae, Ravyn
Contents: Cameo -- Venom -- Inside out -- M.I.A -- Skin tight (feat. Steve Lacy) -- Where I'm from (feat. Mereba) -- Deep in the world -- Higher -- 3D (feat. Smino) -- Satellites -- Lullabye -- Light me up -- Like you do -- Xtasy -- Mercury (feat. Fousheé) -- Wish.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LENLunde, Maja
Summary: From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNRende, Richard
Summary: "In a world that's changing at warp speed, our kids will need to navigate a path to success without a roadmap -- something entrepreneurs do every day. What if we looked to the world of entrepreneurship, in addition to child development experts, for insights on helping kids gain the skills they'll need in order to prosper personally and professionally? Raising Can-Do Kids is the first book to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Perigee Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 RENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents RendeDisney Enterprises (COR)
Summary: Mabel and Dipper's adventures in Gravity Falls continue, as they experiment with everything from cloning to time travel, making new friends along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Books Ltd 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Lande, Nathaniel.
Contents: The Revolutionary War -- The War of 1812 -- The Mexican War -- The Civil War -- The Spanish-American War -- World War I -- World War II -- The cold war and the Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4333 LANFazio, Wende.
Summary: Describes the history, landscape, wildlife, and activities of Everglades National Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.939 FAZLinde, Nancy.
Summary: 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHLeede, CJ
Summary: "By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend's brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Lunde, Paul
Contents: Islam in context -- The Islamic faith -- History of the Islamic world -- Islamic art and science -- Modernity and tradition -- The Islamic world today -- Chronology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LUNAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of ValparaIso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate JoaquIn Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllende, Isabel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllende, Isabel.
Summary: Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature--willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely protective--a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013