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Publisher / Publication Date: Noble Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.4 NEWSeward, Ingrid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEWRowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
Summary: Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VASARI, GIORGIO ROWBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogota, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 BETCroce, Ingrid
Summary: Offers insight into the man behind his denim-clad, mustached persona, covering such topics as the inspirations for his most famous songs, the exhaustion that overshadowed his success, and the 1973 plane crash that ended his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROCE, JIM CROSeward, Ingrid
Summary: The editor-in-chief of "Majesty" magazine presents a biography of the British consort to discuss his aristocratic childhood in Paris, more than seven-decade marriage to Elizabeth II, and loyal service as a statesman and philanthropist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE SEWRowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
Summary: Profiles the late-sixteenth-century philosopher and martyr, including his inspiration in the works of figures such as Shakespeare and Galileo, his lesser-known personal legacy, and his execution as a heretic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 195 ROWHustvedt, Siri
Summary: In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HUSHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. Then the seizures happened again and again. This book tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 HUSRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: Proud to be a Marine is an exciting new volume of stories specific to the Marine Corps, dating from the very beginning (American Revolution) to modern day, including the 18th and 19th century, the Boxer rebellion, the two world wars, Korea and Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 358 KELCole, Teju
Summary: When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He s an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited photographer. In Blind Spot, readers follow Cole s inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm as he continues to refine the voice, eye, and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. Here, journey through more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 COLSeierstad, Åsne
Summary: This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul. Sultan has lived through several represive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003