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bibliography Biographies. biography Fiction. History. Novellas. Poetry. Short stories. short story Translations.Montano, Samantha
Summary: "In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings readers with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened from a emergency management perspective. She explains why we aren't doing enough to prevent or prepare for disasters, the critical role of media, and how our approach to recovery was not designed to serve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 MONSamana
Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAMMontano, Mark.
Contents: Perfect pillows -- Wonderful walls -- Delicious dinnerware -- Whimsical windows -- Amazing accents -- Captivating candlelight -- Terrific tables -- Luscious lighting & lavish lampshades -- Brilliant bedrooms -- Marvelous mirrors -- Awesome artwork -- Incredible ikea ideas -- Fab-tastic furniture -- Sensational seating -- Stuff I like to have around the house -- Resource guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 MONMontana, Bob
Summary: It's Archie's third volume in our all-time bestselling The Best of Archie Comics graphic novel series, featuring even more great stories from Archie's eight decades of excellence! This fun full-color collection of more of Archie's all-time favorite stories, lovingly hand-selected and introduced by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material, is a must-have for any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comics 2013
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Schweblin, Samanta
Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHModiano, Patrick
Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODMontana, Gladiola.
Summary: Henry Ward Beecher said "the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next." That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch--lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs-Smith 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MONSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCHSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHMontana, Dick.
Contents: Indigo rider (5:40) -- Rich man's town (3:58) -- The home front, part one (:31) -- Headed out for Texas (2:26) -- Picture of you (2:29) -- Anywhere (4:06) -- I wanted you to know (3:46) -- The home front, part two (:54) -- Listen to her heart (2:28) -- Hurt by love (3:08) -- Party dolls and wine (3:31) -- It's only cocaine (3:17) -- Green door (2:26) -- Trendy shitbag (3:07) -- The home front,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bar/None Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONMontana, Patsy.
Contents: I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart -- That silver haired daddy of mine -- Sixteen pounds -- Riding down the canyon -- Another cowboy song -- Roll along, Kentucky moon -- I've traded my city feller (for a cowboy's sweetheart) -- Western medley: Streets of Laredo ; Red River Valley ; Home on the range ; Cattle call ; Cool water -- The cowgirl song -- Renfro Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MONModiano, Patrick
Summary: Presents three short novels which explore the influence of the past, the complexities of human relationships, and the mysterious power of Paris over its residents and visitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv,bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMontale, Eugenio
Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONMontano, Judith Baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 1993
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Summary: The New Secret Language of Symbols is a beautifully illustrated sourcebook of symbols and symbol systems. An illuminating introduction looks at the cultural and psychological explanations of symbols - including the Jungian idea of the collective unconscious. Then follows "The World of Symbols," the heart of the book in which more than 500 symbols are presented and explained theme by theme -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 FONMontero, Rosa
Summary: "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos mas conocidos del siglo XX a traves de la vision de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalomaniacos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva y ampliar la comprension de las tragedias sociales por medio del analisis de las tragedias domesticas. Es como meterse por la puerta de atras de las...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debols!llo 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONLang, Acantha
Contents: Sugar woman -- Come back home -- Beautiful dreams -- Eventually -- He said/She said -- Interlude: A word from my momma -- Lois Lang -- River keep runnin' -- It's gonna be alright -- Carry the weight -- Whatever happened to our love? -- Keep on -- Ride this train (extended version).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LANMontale, Eugenio
Summary: Eugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's. As poet, private individual, and "good European", Montale's way of dealing with his difficulties was to seize the occasions offered him by writing poetry in which the lover's passions for his beloved country would convey the truth of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONSummary: Create your own heirloom crazy quilt with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano. Learn all about crazy quilting - supplies, fabrics, stitches and embellishments. Enhance your crazy quilts with lace and ribbons. See Judith's technique for constructing crazy quilt pieces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Publishing 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 JUDMontanez, Richard P.
Summary: "The unforgettable true story of how a janitor struggling to put food on the table invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos in a secret test kitchen, breaking barriers and becoming the first Latino executive at Frito-Lay. Richard Montañez wasn't supposed to have big dreams. Born to migrant farm workers and mired in grinding generational poverty, he left school in the sixth grade, eventually taking a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTANEZ, RICHARD P. MONMangano, Joy
Summary: The visionary entrepreneur and inventor shares an inspirational blueprint for promoting personal success and fulfillment, sharing stories from her childhood, family, and career experiences that illustrate how healthier perspectives can significantly improve one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017