Schmidle, Nicholas
Summary: "Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.8092 SCHSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: College freshman Michaela suffers a breakdown that looks less like her diagnosed condition of epilepsy than a form of demonic possession. Seeking a priest's aid, Michaela enters a very personal hell while her family watches in horror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REQSummary: Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOPButler, Nickolas
Summary: "In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTSummary: A quiet loner finds himself stranded in a remote town when his car breaks down. Unable to pay for the repairs he needs, he agrees to spend the night cleaning Willy's Wonderland, an abandoned family fun center. But this wonderland has a dark secret that the "The Janitor" is about to discover. He soon finds himself trapped inside Willy's and locked in an epic battle with the possessed animatronic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WiSummary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KiButler, Nickolas
Summary: "In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan to finish building a home against an impossible deadline"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Summary: "The ten stories in this ... collection evoke a landscape that will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has traveled the back roads and blue highways of America, and they completely capture the memorable characters who call it home"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015
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Summary: "An epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set against the backdrop of a beloved Boy Scout summer camp in the Northwood of Wisconsin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUTRaihani, Nichola
Summary: "In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is themeans by which life arose in the first place. It's how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 RAINicholas
Summary: Collection of diaries and correspondence between the members of the Russian royal family and their closest friends, from the 1880s to the time of their deaths in 1918.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROMANOV FAMILY NICSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Summary: A scarred Vietnam veteran and successful businessman reflects on his teen years as a social outcast and friend to a popular youth during a summer camp reunion marked by selflessness and an unthinkable event involving his friend's family members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Butler 2017Butler, Nickolas
Summary: "A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations.Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTNicholls, David.
Summary: It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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Nicholls, Sally
Summary: "In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NICCopernicus, Nicolaus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 COPNicholls, Horatio
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Publisher / Publication Date: De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc. 1927
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMNicholls, Richard
Summary: Guide to growing plants without soil, covering the science of hydroponics, methods, plant selection, and how to prevent and treat problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1977
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.585 NICNicholls, Steve.
Summary: Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 NICNickols, Kay.
Summary: "Quiltmaking design process and construction method using one fabric. Technique requires no special tools. Step-by-step instructions illustrate process for easily constructed quilts"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Quilter's Society 2007