Porizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORKael, Pauline
Summary: Explores the life and career of American film critic Pauline Kael.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAJavaherbin, Mina
Summary: In this version of the blind men and the elephant, based on a poem by Rūmī, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JAVHager, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 540 HAGDean, Michelle
Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEAMarkel, Howard
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it-and why were they the ones who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 MARBracken, Pauline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercier Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.835 BRADavis, Pauline
Summary: "The inspiring story of Pauline Davis, a Bahamian sprinter who fought through poverty, inequality, and racism to compete in five Olympic Games and become the first woman from the Caribbean to win Olympic gold. She would inspire an entire nation and go onto become the first Black woman elected to the international governing body of athletics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, PAULINE DAVBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROWood, Naomi.
Summary: Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the adventurous novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P WOOBaer de Perignon, Pauline
Summary: "It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. The list drove Pauline Baer de Perignon on a frenzied trail of research that takes her from the occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAER DE PERIGNON, PAULINE BAECarr, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.712 CARBell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELShelton, Paula Young
Summary: Paula Young Shelton grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family--and thousands of others--in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 323.1196 SHEMcGinniss, Joe.
Summary: Presents a study of the illusion and the reality of Sarah Palin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PALIN SARAH McGPalin, Sarah
Summary: Framed by her strong belief in the importance of family, faith, and patriotism, the author reflects on the key values--both national and spiritual--that have been such a profound part of her life and continue to inform her vision of America's future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 PALBarrett, Colin
Summary: "The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2024
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Summary: "Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 BARPoundstone, Paula.
Summary: Comedian Paula Poundstone is at her best in two memorable performances, one recorded in Bayfield, Wisconsin, at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua and the other at the historic Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. Join Paula Poundstone in her element: sharing too much information, telling unpredictable stories, and interacting with her audience with a spontaneity that is considered without peer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POUThompson, Mya
Summary: "Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THODunn, Geoffrey.
Summary: A critical biography of the former vice-presidential candidate discusses personal secrets about Palin's marriage, her extremist religious views, her selection as John McCain's running mate, and her presidential aspirations for 2012.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PALIN, SARAH DUNHarvey, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frog, Ltd. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 HarveJalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Contents: Working with our humanness -- The ego animal -- Awe, naked wonder -- The inner work -- The step into placelessness -- The gift and the giver -- The passion for God -- Signs that speak -- The pearl of the heart -- The yearning -- Praise, glory -- The only one -- Boiling the chickpeas -- The complete human -- Surrender -- Love is the cause -- Mercy -- Purity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 RUMBirenbaum, Halina
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1996