Alberti, Rafael
Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBLasater, Judith
Summary: "Because yoga has become more and more popular and integrated into Western culture, millions of people outside of India study and practice yoga. Along with this has been a proliferation in the numbers of yoga teachers. In this book, introduces "yoga myths' in each chapter. These are the beliefs commonly held about how movements should be practiced which in fact do not represent the actual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 LASLamster, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 LAMLystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWAPaster, Emily
Summary: A celebration of delicious foods from Jewish cooks. Learn about one of the most vital subtopics in Jewish cooking: preserved foods. Jewish cooks, even casual ones, are proud of the history of preserved foods in Jewish life, from the time of living in a desert two millennia ago to the era in which Jews lived in European ghettoes with no refrigeration during the last century. In a significant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 PASTaylor, Astra.
Summary: From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In this seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 TAYMasters, Alexander.
Summary: Tells the story of an unlikely friendship that develops between the author, a writer and illustrator, and Stuart Shorter, a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1972
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Summary: "On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe's most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures was The Nursery, an oak-paneled triptych by Leiden fine painter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: "What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times), provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of thieving plutocrats in the White House to campaign finance and gerrymandering, it is clear that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TAYPlaster, John L.
Summary: SOG was the most secret elite U.S. military unit to serve in the war in Vietnam, so secret it was "black" - meaning its very existence was carefully concealed, even denied by the government. Innocuously code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army Green Berets, USAF Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, and answered directly to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 PLAMasters, Tess
Summary: "The debut cookbook from the powerhouse blogger behind theblendergirl.com, featuring 100 gluten-free, vegan recipes for smoothies, meals, and more made quickly and easily in a blender. What's your perfect blend? On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters--aka, The Blender Girl--shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess's lively, down-to-earth approach...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MASEaster Smith, Anne.
Summary: Follows the rise of Kate Haute from English peasant to beloved mistress of the future King Richard III, with whom she bears three children, endures a dangerous political war, and struggles against personal accusations of murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASDavid, Lester.
Summary: This revelatory, memorable book by the dean of America's Kennedy writers begins where the bestselling phenomenon A Woman Named Jackie left off, going even further into the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Lester David evokes in fascinating detail what happened to Jackie after her marriage to Aristotle Onassis. When she died, after a determined battle with cancer, her passing brought forth an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ONASSIS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY DavLester, David
Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESLester, Toby.
Summary: Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONARDO DA VINCI LesterBrown, Lester R. (Lester Russell)
Summary: Discusses the geopolitics of food security in the face of scarcity caused by falling water tables, soil erosion, and global warming and supports the position that food is the new oil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BROBrooks, Lester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carpe Veritas Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5314 BROLester, Anne
Summary: Drawing on her own personal experience, the latest research and case studies, the former head of retirement solutions for JPMorgan Asset Management provides actionable solutions for the unique challenges Millennials and Gen Z face while saving for their future to help them achieve their biggest life goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 EakMasters, Edgar Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 MASMasters, Nancy Robinson.
Summary: Examines the water cycle, capturing and storing water and how water gets to homes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J628.1 MASLester, Julius
Summary: An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1989