Summary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITEwen, Stuart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2 EWEMacAskill, William
Summary: The future is in our hands. As Oxford philosopher William MacAskill shows here by explaining "longtermism," we can make the world better for billions of years to come or consign future generations to oblivion.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 171.8 MACMacAskill, William
Summary: "One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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Contents: Good morning -- In -- Hertz -- Static -- Projector -- Love, death, distraction -- How to sleep -- Calm down -- Just saying -- Fomo -- So far so good -- Isohel -- ???? -- Tides -- Rushing -- Streams -- 2020 -- Out -- Untitled.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC EDEMcCaskill, Claire.
Summary: Missouri's first woman senator recounts her coming-of-age in a political family at a time when women were held back from their ambitions, describing her failed first marriage, her unconventional choices in office and her relationships with fellow politicians. --Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCASKILL, CLAIRE MCCEdan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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Contents: Weeping night -- O solitude -- The embrace -- Nocturne -- Ethereal journeys -- The Luciferian revolution -- Eden -- Dancinng under the closed eyes of paradise -- Les Tenebres du Dehors
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distrib. Wagram music] 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ELEAlexander, Eben.
Summary: Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.901 ALEEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, balance of power, and national interest. The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger that examines his unique role in government through his ideas. It analyzes the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KISSINGER. HENRY GEWEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEDemen
Contents: Niorum -- Morgon -- Korridorer -- Illdrop -- Mea -- Ambur -- Flor
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEMEdan.
Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanAlexander, Eben.
Summary: A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon's minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience, and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 133.901 ALEXANDER, EBEN ALEJewel
Contents: Again and again -- Long slow slide -- Goodbye Alice in Wonderland -- Good day -- Satellite -- Only one too -- Words get in the way -- Drive to you -- Last dance rodeo -- Fragile heart -- Stephenville, TX -- Where you are -- 1000 miles away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JEWJewel
Contents: Stronger woman -- I do -- Love is a garden -- Rosey and Mick -- Anyone but you -- Thump thump -- Two become one -- 'Til it feels like cheating -- Everything reminds me of you -- Love by you (Cowboy waltz) -- Perfectly clear -- enhanced content video: Stronger woman.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Valory Music 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JEWOwen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OWEMorrison, Ewan
Summary: Haley and Ben live with their mother. When their dad is convinced there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming, he kidnaps them. Confined in his prepper hideaway far off the grid, he believes they will be safe from other people. Haley and Ben have no contact with the outside world, and are worried about their mother. Is the threat even real-- or is this all just a dark fantasy brought on by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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Summary: "If you're a security expert, what do you do if your fiancée suddenly goes missing, presumably kidnapped? If you're Daniel Trent, a highly trained specialist in hostage negotiation, the answer is simple: you find out who took her and you make them talk. But what if your chief suspect is taken as well? How do you get him back quickly--and alive--so you can find out what really happened to your...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWAEwan, Chris
Summary: Fresh from a successful Paris book reading, mystery writer and professional thief Charlie Howard is hired by his fence to steal an oil painting from the apartment at which he had been demonstrating his larcenous skills a day earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWAEwan, Chris
Summary: Retiring from his life of crime to write novels in Venice, gentleman thief Charlie is blackmailed into committing a dastardly deed in order to reclaim a prized rare book that has been stolen by a femme-fatale burglar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011