Napolitano, Janet
Summary: The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 NAPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISMeadows, Michelle.
Summary: Janet Collins wanted to be a ballerina in the 1930s and O40s, a time when racial segregation was widespread in the United States. From her early childhood lessons to the height of her success as the first African-American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera, this is the story of a remarkable pioneer. Full color.x 11.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB JANET COLLINS MEASummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUHenderson, Ray
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1929
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMLeamer, Laurence
Summary: Offering an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories help chart the course of the enigmatic director's career, this mesmerizing account takes a modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed-and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: Tank is a clumsy, outgoing Great Dane, and Haggis is a bored, curmudgeonly Scottie--so one afternoon Tank suggests they turn the wagon in the backyard into a ship and play pirate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Summary: A scientific journey to study the dolphins of coastal Australia considers the many potential sources of dolphin intelligence and what dolphin behavior can inform the scientific community about human intelligence, captive animals and the future of the oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Canta pe' me / Ernesto de Curtis (3:26) -- Bring him home / Claude-Michel Schönberg (3:36) -- Che non finisca mai / Chris Broom (3:35) -- E lucevan le stelle / Giaccomo Puccini (3:22) -- Dolce vento / Chris Broom (2:21) -- Un giorno per noi / Nina Rota (4:19) -- Che gelida manina / Giaccomo Puccini (5:02) -- La nostra patria / Chris Broom (3:04) -- Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen (3:57) -- Ave Maria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL ANTFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
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Summary: A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dempsey 2014Hilsenrath, Jon
Summary: Chronicling the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, an award-winning economics writer examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and her husband, George Akerlof, an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YELLEN, JANET HILMonet, Claude
Summary: Presents paintings of Claude Monet, accompanied by phrases in the painter's own words, edited to form a simple rhyme that runs through the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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Summary: Provides a simple introduction to the work of French artist Claude Monet, featuring his Impressionist paintings of city and country scenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERBareau, Juliet Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 WILGibbon, Maureen
Summary: "A sensual portrait of Manet's last years, and a vibrant testament to the endurance of the artistic spirit. Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life, Édouard Manet begins to jot down his daily impressions, reflections, and memories in a notebook. Between healing respites in the French countryside and holding court in his Paris studio, he finds inspiration in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBSpence, David.
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the French artist known for his founding of the impressionist school of painting, discusses his famous paintings, and examines how his paintings bridged the worlds of traditional and modern art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Forest Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.44 MANBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNSummary: This wickedly labyrinthine work - an elegantly barbed extravaganza with music by frequent collaborator Michael Nyman and lush photography by Curtis Clark - launched Greenaway to the forefront of global arthouse cinema. Special features included.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRASummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAAdler, David A.
Summary: Supersleuth Cam Jansen solves three mysteries during her class's Sports and Good Nutrition Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Countering growing mistrust in the wake of increasing cases of insanity among the Jedi, Han and Leia flee with three afflicted Jedi, while Luke travels to the homeworld of the Night Sister to learn why Jacen Solo turned to the dark side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2011