Sonnenfeld, Barry
Summary: Constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Barry Sonnenfeld describes how he somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SONNENFELD, BARRY SONStapinski, Helene
Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STASummary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEABardy, Ed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Latch String 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 621.93 BARBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARHarry
Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling, and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HARRY, PRINCE HARMarshall, Garry.
Summary: In My Happy Days in Holly wood, Marshall takes us on a journey from his stickball-playing days in the Bronx to the joys and challenges of working with the Fonz and the young Julia Roberts, the "street performer" Robin Williams, and the young Anne Hathaway, among many others. This honest, vibrant, and often hilarious memoir reveals a man whose career has been defined by his drive to make people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MARSHALL, GARY MARWills, Garry
Summary: In this examination of the life of a founding father, renowned historian Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADWills, Garry
Summary: Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 WILWills, Garry
Summary: An examination of Christianity's place in American life through history, from the Puritans to the administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, historian Wills argues, has been between the head and the heart: reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. 18th century America saw a religious revolution--an Enlightenment culture emerged whose hallmarks were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 WILHarry
Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mothers coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PRINCE HARRY HARHarry
Summary: Before losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. Because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. From the beginning, his romance with Meghan was preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Here Prince Harry tells...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HARDonenfeld, Maya H.
Summary: Explains how to craft with such repurposed materials as linen, burlap, and wool, providing details on deconstruction techniques and their environmental impacts, as well as how to embellish the materials using paint and ink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.2 DonO'Connor, Garry
Summary: "The definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen from an acclaimed biographer In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before his visit to Middle Earth. He made his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 WILWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: A study of the three operas that Verdi adapted from Shakespeare: Macbeth, Otello, and Falstaff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 WILWinogrand, Garry
Summary: Presents a retrospective of work by twentieth-century American photographer Garry Winogrand, arranged thematically in nine categories, and includes an essay on the life and career of the artist, as well as a chronology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779 WINWills, Garry
Summary: Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good, good enough to make it perdure. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place (or are taking place) within the last century. None of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 WILWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 WILWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the Church's devious practices and stubborn resistance to the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. The earliest book, Mark, emphasizes Jesus the sufferer; in Matthew, Jesus the teacher; in Luke, Jesus the reconciler; and in John, Jesus the mystic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008