Summary: The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUIDay, Nick (Nicholas)
Summary: "The story of the composer John Cage's famous composition of four minutes and 33 seconds of empty sheet music, and its first performance by the pianist David Tudor"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAYAnderson, Sarah
Summary: "The Lost Art of Silence encourages us to embrace this pursuit and allow the warm light of silence to glow. Invoking the wisdom of many of the greatest writers, thinkers, contemplatives, historians, musicians, and artists, Sarah Anderson reveals the sublime nature of quiet that's all too often undervalued. Throughout, she shares her own penetrating insights into the potential for silence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2023
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Summary: Through her original, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302 BROWarsch, Wolfgang
Summary: "The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment, a journey, a team experience in which you can't exchange information, yet will become one to defeat all the levels of the game. In more detail, the deck contains cards numbered 1-100, and during the game you try to complete 12, 10, or 8 levels of play with 2, 3, or 4 players. In a level, each player receives a hand of cards equal to the...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Pandasaurs Games 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME MINKagge, Erling
Summary: "In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book, an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 KAGLyons, Daniel
Summary: "A desperately needed wake-up call for a world that demands we keep tweeting, posting, and podcasting that proves the most important thing might be to shut up! By identifying the six types of overtalkers and the six principles to cure our babbling ways, STFU empowers us to become better at nearly every facet of our daily lives and in our most treasured relationships"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 LYOProchnik, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 PROFrancis, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, JOHN FrancisLeClaire, Anne D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LECMaitland, Sara
Summary: The author, one of six children who grew up to be a vocal feminist and mother, describes how she fell in love with silence in her late forties while living alone in the country, discusses her experiences with quiet in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and the Isle of Skye, and explores the cultural history of silence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009