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Summary: "The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important--and astoundingly simple--thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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Contents: disc 1. De pies a cabeza (5:40) -- Oye mi amor (4:54) -- Refrigerador (3:59) -- Donde jugaran los niños (Obertura) (6:30) -- Soledad (6:12) -- Huele a tristeza (7:12) -- Te llore un rio (6:34) -- Estoy agotado (4:16) -- Perdido en un barco (4:19) -- Buscandola (4:11) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WEA Latina 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MANSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAISummary: Sarah Jarosz continues to avoid a creative rut with her second album, which showcases her expansive and vital approach to acoustic music. Along with original songs, the album features a cover of the Radiohead track The Tourist as well as Bob Dylan's Ring Them Bells.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JARSummary: Drifter Frank Chambers comes to work for Cora and her husband in their California roadside diner. Frank eyes the pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Frank and Cora become lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POSSummary: "At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son's puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked 'What's it like to be you?' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIF1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIF
Suskind, Ron.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SUSSuskind, Ron.
Summary: Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown, from the trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 SUSSuskind, Ron.
Summary: "Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUSKIND, OWEN SUSSuskind, Ron.
Summary: What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, as America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Journalist Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind comes a new consideration of George W. Bush in the White House. Substance & anecdote, episode & incident - right to the inner White House circle - reveal the daunting demands on the presidency at a time of economic crisis & world peril, & present an informed opinion on the ability of this president to handle these demands."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SUSSuskin, Steven.
Contents: Curtain up! -- Music in the air -- High drama and low comedy -- Star quality -- It isn't working -- Pretty little picture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 792.95 SUSSusskind, Daniel
Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.25 SUSSüskind, Patrick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSSuskin, Steven
Summary: "A carefully curated, cheerfully opinionated guidebook surveying 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SUSboyd, danah (danah michele)
Summary: An absolutely essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 BOYSummary: Ex-maid of honor Eloise, having been relieved of her duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to hold her head up high and attend her oldest friend's wedding anyway. She finds herself seated at the 'random' table in the back of the ballroom with a disparate group of strangers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TABSusskind, Leonard
Summary: "Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the complexities of waves, forces, and particles by exploring special relativity and electromagnetism. It's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 SUSChaviano, Daina
Summary: Far from her family, her history, and her home in Cuba, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in the Little Havana section of Miami, where a mysterious woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADanza, Tony.
Summary: Entering Northeast High School's crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony Danza found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about his showbiz credentials, and immediately put him on the hot seat. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had reveals just how hard it is to keep today's technologically savvy-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.1 DANDunbar, Dayna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNMichelli, Dena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.7 MICCarter, Deana.
Contents: I've loved enough to know 3:22. -- We danced anyway 3:23. -- Count me in 3:24. -- If this is love 2:53. -- Love ain't worth making 3:14. -- Before we ever heard goodbye 3:45. -- How do I get there 4:09. -- Strawberry wine 4:51. -- That's how you know it's love 4:27. -- Did I shave my legs for this? 3:11. -- To the other side 4:10.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Nashville 1996