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Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMRydholm, C. Fred.
Contents: v.1,bk.1. The north end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.1,bk.2. White Deer Lake country: the south end of the Bentley Trail. -- v.2,bk.3. The Andersens and the Yellowdog Plains. -- v.2,bk.4. My friends, family, and life in these north woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.F. Rydholm 1989
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 Ryd v.2Call number: MIO 977.49 RYD v.1
2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.49 RYD V1
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Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 858.912 TOMHoman, Lynn M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 HOMGarza, Carmen Lomas.
Summary: The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 GARSancton, Thomas (Thomas Alexander)
Summary: "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTENCOURT, LILIANE SANFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who EdisonHatch, Thom
Summary: A history of the legendary Old West outlaw duo traces their numerous daring robberies before new technologies and advancing civilization rendered their methods ineffective, sharing insight into their flight to South America and reports about their mysterious deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 HATFeild, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TFD LLC 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.7297 FEI1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 780.7297 FEI
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word FeildNicholson, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.7043 NichoBeller, Thomas
Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALINGER, J.D. BELBuergenthal, Thomas.
Summary: Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS BUEHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEAHertog, Thomas
Summary: "Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos--a dramatic revision of the theory that made him the heir to Einstein's legacy. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 523.1 HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HERMaier, Thomas
Contents: Golden girl -- Heartland -- Mrs. Johnson -- Never going home -- A wonder to behold -- The fertility expert -- The good wife -- Academic freedom -- Through the peephole -- The matrix -- The experiment -- Volunteers -- Noah -- Masks -- Leaving school -- A matter of trust -- Revealing secrets -- The human response -- The excitement of release -- Focusing feelings -- Sexual healing -- Surrogates --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 MAIMcNulty, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLYNN, ERROL MCNMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERNicholas, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.342 NichoThomas, Abigail.
Summary: Richard took their dog, Harry, out for a walk, and Harry came home alone. Richard had been hit by a car and was lying bleeding in the street. The traumatic head injury he suffered didn't kill him, as attending police had predicted it would, but it rendered him susceptible to large-scale memory loss, hallucinations, and such wild rages that Abigail was forced to commit him to an institution....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 THOThomas, Evan
Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D THOCahill, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 232 CahilCahill, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN XXIII, POPE CAHCahill, Thomas.
Summary: Relates the life of an African American inmate, sentenced to death for taking part in a robbery in which a victim was killed, and for whom opponents of the death penalty spent twelve years unsuccessfuly trying to have the case reviewed and his sentence overturned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009