Summary: Bonus features (all on disc 2): Backstage at the Met with host Renée Fleming: interviews with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Maria Zifchak and Carolyn Choa; Anthony Minghella talks about Madama Butterfly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2011
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2 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MADLeopardi, Giacomo
Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEODiacono, Mark.
Summary: Highlights more than 50 quick crops with information on how to sow, grow and harvest each plant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 DIAIacono, Sal
Summary: "Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IACONO, SAL IACDiacono, Mark.
Summary: A practical guide to growing, harvesting, and cooking your own vegetables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 DIAPucci, Dan
Summary: "A must-have guide to the booming hard cider industry--what to drink, where it comes from, and where it's heading--by a pioneering cider sommelier, "the hype man cider is lucky to have" (Eater) Cider today runs the gamut from sweet to dry, smooth to funky, made with apples but also other fruits--and even hopped like beer. In American Cider, experts Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo give a new wave of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 663.63 PUCBartolo, Pietro
Summary: "Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and hoping to make a new life in Europe. Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who runs the lone medical clinic on the island, has been caring for many of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARTOLO, PIETRO BARSummary: An anthology of four wordless novels by artists Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde, and a look at how these artists used their work as a form of social commentary. The influence of this art form on modern filmmaking and the graphic novel is also examined.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GRALee, Stan
Summary: "As protector of the universe, Captain Mar-Vell has triumphed over foes large and small. But when the Kree hero is diagnosed with cancer, he finds himself face-to-face with a foe even his vast might can't defeat -- and both he, and the universe that loves him, must rally together to accept the inevitable. Plus: Experience the classic adventures that introduced Mar-Vell and the seminal encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEEContents: Disc 1: The creative person: practice and passion -- Lateral thinking is a survival skill -- Creative styles: adaptors and innovators -- Combining opposites: diverge, then converge -- Principles for unleashing your imagination -- Principles for converging on the best ideas -- disc 2: Stages of the creative process, and you -- Clarifying the challenge -- Clarify even more: webbing and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2014
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 CRECall number: DVD 153 CRE
Couch, Christina
Summary: "Meet . . . animals with all kinds of highly developed senses and learn about the jobs they do in this book full of . . . facts, . . . science, and activities"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Kids Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 COUFerrante, Elena
Summary: With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 854.92 FERGanz-Schmitt, Sue
Summary: Taking readers back to the 1850s, this high-flying STEAM picture book introduces Mary Myers, aka "Carlotta," an aeronaut and inventor whose daring flights and careful scientific work improved hot air balloons and our understanding of flight, weather patterns and the atmosphere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MYERockliff, Mara
Summary: Discover how Benjamin Franklin's scientific method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer's mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a true moment in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.3092 ROCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 ROCSummary: A cross section of metal music from the earliest days to the branching out into dozens of specialized forms across America and Europe. Includes interviews with more than 300 artists, producers and experts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metal Evolution Productions 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC METMcCormick, Patricia
Summary: Relates the true story of a brave little mare who carried artillery shells into battle numerous times with the U.S. Marines she supported throughout the Korean War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017