Marsh, Henry
Summary: A leading neurosurgeon offers a revealing look into his life and work, discussing the triumphs, disasters, and regrets of a medical practice that carries grave risks and often requires agonizing decisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 MARNg, Meichi
Summary: "From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 130k followers on Instagram, comes a never-before-seen collection of incriminating short stories about exes, murder, friendship, therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things, freaking out about things, calming down momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and other wonderful delights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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Contents: College songs, 1909-1913: When the summer moon comes 'long -- Bridget McGuire -- Moon, moon -- Since Dolly's come to town -- Mory's -- Bingo Eli Yale -- Hail to Yale -- Eli -- Bull dog -- The motor car -- A football king -- If I were only a football man -- I want to be a Yale boy -- I want to be a prom girl -- It pays to advertise -- When I'm eating around with you -- Yellow melodrama --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.14 PORRoberts, Keiler
Summary: "Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBOliphant, Thomas.
Summary: This book is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, on the short list of great moments in baseball history. One October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. Everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right. Pitch by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 OLINoonan, Peggy
Summary: Witty, incisive, at times prophetic, and always original, this collection offers the best of Peggy Noonan's writing. The book travels the path of her remarkable career, showing how she became one of the most influential voices in America. It begins with an essay about Noonan's motivations as a writer and thinker, followed by a personal talk on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 NOOSampson, Fiona
Summary: "A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT SAMTempestt, Mimi
Summary: "Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance, Mimi Tempestt writes poems that are by turns cerebral, profane, revolutionary, comedic, erotic, and sentimental. the delicacy of embracing spirals is her second book, an investigation of the ways in which the personal narrative of Black womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens....
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TEMSummary: Narrated by Udo Kier, the film asks what the Nazi cinema of the Third Reich reveals about its period and its people. About 1,000 feature films were made in Germany in the years between 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, and war films. Only a few were overtly Nazi propaganda films. But by the same token, even fewer of them can be considered harmless entertainment. How did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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