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Summary: "While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RYDRydell, Robert W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.4 RYDAndré, Christophe
Summary: Introduces a technique for practicing mindfulness and achieving increased mental clarity through observing works of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 ANDPourny, Christophe
Summary: Christophe Pourny learned the art of furniture restoration in his father's atelier in the South of France. In this, his first book, he teaches readers everything they need to know about the provenance and history of furniture, as well as how to restore, update, and care for their furniture--from antiques to midcentury pieces, family heirlooms or funky flea-market finds. The heart of the book is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690 POURidall, Kathryn
Summary: Have you ever wondered why you dream what you dream? Do you want to deepen your relationship with your dreams and receive guidance from them? Dreaming at the Gates presents dozens of powerful stories demonstrating how dreams guide us from childhood through death. See how dreams can prepare us for marriage, help resolve personal or professional problems, and help us deal with the death of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit RidallBoltanski, Christophe
Summary: In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBrodell, Ria
Summary: Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BROFridell, Ron.
Summary: Discusses the pollution and conservation of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7394 FRIWolff, Christoph
Summary: "A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bachscholar Christoph Wolff contextualizes his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 WOLWolff, Christoph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN WOLFadell, Tony
Summary: Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in thirty plus years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Tony uses examples that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FADGrimal, Nicolas-Christophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.01 GRIRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNCodell, Esmé Raji
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 028.5 CODCollier, Gaydell M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Plains Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.795 COLSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: Is a close-up view of a woman we've known only from a distance, illuminating the lively personality, sense of humor, and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. It is also a facinating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ELICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II SMISmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new and authoritative look at Prince Charles, the oldest heir to the throne in more than three hundred years. This vivid, eye-opening biography--the product of four years of research and hundreds of interviews with palace officials, former girlfriends, spiritual gurus, and more--is filled with fresh insights into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES SMIPodell, Ronald M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 PODOdell, Jenny
Summary: "Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil OdellCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEShepard, Odell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.469 ShepaOdell, Jenny
Summary: "A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and ourworld Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. doing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ODECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ODEGardner, Scott Lyell
Summary: This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has been, a way to survive under changing environmental conditions. From arctic oceans to tropical forests, Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz investigate how parasites survive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.7 GARSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIParrish, Michael DuDell.
Summary: "From the ABC hit show "Shark Tank," this book--filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves--will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book will intersperse words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013