Sakyong Mipham
Summary: As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community of 165 meditation centers), Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. He's been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but has a special love for running. Here he incorporates his spiritual practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and fundamental principles he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Dekel, Mikhal
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEKHigham, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 HIGMelham, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 599.0978 MELMoxham, Stuart.
Contents: Tidy Away -- Day Must Come -- It Goes Like This -- Love Hangover -- The Devil Laughs -- Sky Over Water -- Fighting To Lose -- Untitled #2 -- Come To Me Nancy -- Head In A Song -- Singing Out -- Tidy Away (Reprise).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Global Productions 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOXPressler, Mirjam.
Summary: A lost treasure trove (6,000 documents) from her grandmother's attic about Anne Frank and her family, now woven into a chronicle. An old lady dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law, Gertrude, steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of death--she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the effects. But Helene Elias wasn't just any old lady, and none...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Witham, Larry
Summary: A historical account of the debate between religious and scientific thought throughout the twentieth century explains how the famous Gifford Lectures reflected the beliefs of some of the period's top thinkers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.65 WITHigham, Scott
Summary: "American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HIGHigham, Scott.
Summary: It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of young intern Chandra Levy and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after her disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors their idea: Revisit the case and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 HIGHusain, Mishal
Summary: Award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain inspires, champions, and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills that make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1082 HUSGlenny, Misha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.6 GLEHigham, Charles
Summary: Provides a portrait of the private life of billionaire Howard Hughes, from his affairs with Hollywood stars to his possible involvement with Nixon and Watergate to his shocking death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HIGHigham, Scott.
Summary: It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story of the congressman and the intern in search of other news, fresh scandals. Across the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HIGShalev, Michal
Summary: Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAKorkosz, Michał
Summary: "The first Polish vegetarian cookbook, with new Polish recipes and meat-free versions of traditional dishes"-- Poland is home to beautiful fruits, vegetables, and grains, and a rich cooking tradition that makes the most of them. Korkosz celebrates recipes from his mother and grandmother-- with modern, personal touches that capture his passion for cooking. Vegetables are his stars, but Korkosz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59438 KORMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATSummary: Brian Cox is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ETRMatar, Hisham
Summary: "One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatar, Hisham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Matar, Hisham
Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATPressler, Mirjam.
Summary: Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2000
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Summary: When his neighbors give a variety of answers to the question "What is a good day?" Daniel writes a poem about the everyday activities that give them joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARCBabay, Michal
Summary: Leelee and her dog perform mitzvahs around the house to get ready for Shabbat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024