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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Children's poetry, American Emotions Epic poetry, Latin Translations into English Friedman, Tova 1938- Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity Hispanic Americans Social conditions Music Philosophy and aesthetics Thomson, Virgil 1896-1989Tovar, Virgie
Summary: Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it--and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 TOVSummary: A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AALVirgil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 873.01 VIRVirgil.
Summary: Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 873 VIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend VirgilVirgil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 873 VirgiFergie
Contents: Fergalicious (feat. will.i.am) -- Clumsy -- All that I got (the make up song) -- London Bridge -- Pedestal -- Voodoo doll -- Glamorous (feat. Ludacris) -- Here I come -- Velvet -- Big girls don't cry -- Mary Jane shoes -- Losing my ground -- Finally.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FERSummary: Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAVirgin, JJ.
Summary: "Most people know sugar is bad for them, but few people know the sugar impact of seven common foods-grains, roots, fruit, low-fat and no-fat diet and dairy foods, sugary sauces and condiments, alcohol and sugary drinks, and natural and artificial sweeteners-can be the real cause of inflammation, bloating, metabolic disorders, fatigue, and weight gain. JJ VIRGIN'S SUGAR IMPACT DIET will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 VIRJones, Virgie V.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris-Burt Press 1975
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 979.463 JONYova.
Contents: Moondog -- You're The Mirror -- Rain -- Where There Is Smoke -- Togetherness -- Would I Change It? (If I Could) -- An Innocent Man -- Make It Better -- Haunted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quartertone Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOVTosar, Luis
Summary: A doorman who hates anyone who is happy, turns one of the building's resident's life into a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLETobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Virgin, JJ
Summary: "Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and four-time New York Times bestselling author, JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event taught her to tap into an indomitable mindset, trust her instincts and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son's life...and her own. She'll share the lessons she learned that can help you create your own resilient mindset"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Way 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 VIRMirvis, Tova.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRMartin, Tovah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fireside 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 MARMartin, Tovah.
Summary: Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, and illustrated with gorgeous photography by Kindra Clineff, The Unexpected Houseplant is for beginners, green thumbs, decorators, and anyone who wants to infuse a bit of surprising green into their decor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 MARTobar, Héctor
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.11 TOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 983 TOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 983 TOBMartin, Tovah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 MARTobar, Héctor
Summary: "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 TOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 TOBFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIHancock, Virgil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. J. Durst 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 737.4 HANThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOThomson, Virgil
Summary: "For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOFox, Virgil
Contents: Spoken introduction by Virgil Fox -- We all believe in one God : BWV 680 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Spoken introduction -- Rejoice beloved Christians : BWV 734 / J.S. Bach -- Spoken introduction -- Finale from St. Matthew Passion / J.S. Bach -- Spoken introduction -- Prelude and fugue in E minor, BWV 548 : "Wedge" ; Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565 / J.S. Bach -- Spoken introduction --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor Gold Seal 1997