Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ART

Summary: 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Packard, Susan.

Summary: "The co-founder of HGTV shows how women can achieve their career goals using techniques of gamesmanship. New Rules of the Game provides insights, tips and direction to women in business, based on experiences from author and HGTV co-founder Susan Packard's own 30 year career, along with a dozen other prominent executives. Packard advocates for a revolutionary new perspective for businesswomen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 PAC

Summary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDV

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Packard, Mary.

Summary: Try fun experiments at home and get to the bottom of urban legends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 507.8 PAC

Wagner, Eduard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1967

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.441 WAG

Radzinsky, Edvard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIC

Varèse, Edgard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VAR

Ledward, Daphne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Robson/Parkwest Publications 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 LED

Packard, Jerrold M.

Summary: Packard closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off more for political advantage than for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their brother to the throne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VICTORIA PAC

Passard, Alain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Ltd 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.65 PAS

Pickard, Nancy.

Summary: Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl's grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PIC

Kayihura, Edouard

Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAY

Payard, François.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 PAY

Alward, Ron

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nat'L Ctr For Appropriate 1981

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 690.89 ALW

Radzinskiĭ, Ėdvard.

Summary: Profiles the Romanov Dynasty tsar as one of Russia's most forward-thinking rulers, documenting his efforts to redefine history by bringing freedom to his country, and describing the series of assassination attempts that eventually ended his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER II RAD

Packer, George

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 956.7044 PAC

Seward, Desmond

Summary: A vivid and colorful history of the most dominant royal dynasty in English history, from Richard the Lionheart and Edward the Black Prince to Henry IV and Richard III.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 SEW

Seward, Pat

Summary: "The country of Morocco is a unique part of Africa with beautiful architecture, ancient history, and an exotic flair. This book describes Morocco's rich history, examines how the country has evolved, and explores what its people and customs are like today."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 964 SEW

Coward, Noel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.91 COW

Galeano, Eduardo

Summary: "Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 902.02 GAL