Freeman, Philip
Summary: Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. We have no surviving image of Patrick, but we do have two letters that he wrote about himself and his beliefs--letters that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PATRICK FREGulley, Philip.
Contents: Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The jig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 242 GULHoare, Philip.
Summary: Navigating between human and natural history and between science and myth, chronicles the author's journey through the oceans to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts, and to seek encounters with animals and people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4092 HOANorman, Philip
Summary: "Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCARTNEY NORNorman, Philip
Summary: Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCARTNEY, PAUL NORRoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTShort, Philip.
Contents: A family apart -- The captive -- Schisms of war -- Loose ends, new beginnings -- The staircase of power -- Requiem for empire -- Crossing the desert -- De Gaulle again -- Union of the left -- Politics is war -- The novitiate -- The sphinx -- The Florentine -- The monarch -- The survivalist -- The testament -- Acronyms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITTERRAND, FRANCOIS SHOAmara, Philip
Summary: "This is an illustrated children's anthology of noteworthy Asian Americans: 20 groundbreaking men and women from diverse backgrounds and vocations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMACarlo, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 CARD'Anieri, Philip
Summary: "The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the oddballs and obsessives who helped bring it to life over the past century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 D'ANEade, Philip
Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted--and fascinating--writers of our time Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as "the greatest novelist of my generation," and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAUGH, EVELYN EADEade, Philip.
Summary: Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE CONSORT EADEGlass, Philip
Summary: The composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores examines his own life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLASS, PHILIP GLAGulley, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GULLEY, PHILIP GULKennicott, Philip
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize- winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began listening to the music of Bach obsessively, and spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.2092 KENReeve, Philip.
Summary: In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Huntsmen of Arkangel find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REEShort, Philip
Summary: "The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years. Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This book is essential reading for anyone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PUTIN, VLADIMIR VLASIMIROVICH SHOYancey, Philip
Summary: "In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the danger of extremist faith, one of today's most celebrated Christian writers recounts his unexpected journey from a strict fundamentalist upbringing to a life of compassion and grace-a revelatory memoir in the tradition of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YANCEY, PHILIP YANAbraham, Philip
Summary: Relates the courage of John F. Kennedy during World War II, especially in saving his crew when they were stranded in the South Pacific after their PT boat was rammed by a Japanese warship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5459 ABRBailey, Philip
Summary: A personal account by the lead singer of Earth, Wind & Fire traces his professional and spiritual journey against a backdrop of the group's meteoric rise to stardom, describing the diverse influences that shaped the band's style and his own experiences as a solo performer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAILEY, PHILIP BAIConnors, Philip
Summary: Recounts the years the author spent dealing with the aftermath of his brother's shocking death as he, paying tribute to the dead, unconsciously wills himself into all the wrong places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONNORS, PHILIP CONGreene, Philip
Summary: "In To Have and Have Another, Ernest Hemingway enthusiast and cocktail connoisseur Philip Greene delves deeper into the author's drinking habits than ever before, offering dozens of authentic recipes for drinks directly connected with the novels, history and folklore, and colorful anecdotes about the man himself. With this cocktail companion, you will be able to fully enjoy Hemingway's works...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee Book 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.847 GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 GREGulley, Philip
Summary: "America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality. Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover later that some of the most important questions about God and ourselves don't have easy answers. And then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit GulleyMarsden, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1997