Summary: Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COET. Rex (Musical group)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK T.RexReid, T. R.
Summary: Discusses successful health-care systems worldwide, disproving American myths of "socialized medicine" to find possible paths toward reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.1 REIReid, T. R.
Summary: The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point--in fact, we reach one every thirty-two years. T. R. Reid crisscrosses the globe in search of exact solutions to the urgent tax problems of the United States. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 REIDunathan, Arni T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R & R Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 DUNMax, D. T. (Daniel T.)
Summary: Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Summary: "In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process - and the years of conversation - was cut short by Sondheim's own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist's death in November 2021. Now, Max has taken the raw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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Summary: "The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace's tormented, anguished and often triumphant battle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER MAXSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "Get inspired--and prepared--for your best life at 50+. Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2024
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Summary: An introduction to the life and achievements of the famed American pilot describes her childhood ambitions to fly and the daring trip around the world during which she disappeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2016
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Summary: Presents information about Ada Lovelace, from her childhood in England and her studies in mathematics to her development of the first computer programming language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Explores the childhood of Marie Curie, who overcame adversity to become one of the most respected scientists in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2017
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Summary: "Written in an accessible and easy-to-follow style, this book sifts through the jargon surrounding organic marijuana growing and gets straight to the heart of the matter: the living soil. This new edition provides dozens of high-quality soil mix combinations to suit the needs of growers all over the country. Whether the reader is a beginner or intermediate, indoor or outdoor grower, they will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Candy Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 633.7 REVSummary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1045 MASummary: Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. The film is an award-winning underdog story about The Mahoning Drive-in Theater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2019
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Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 INDWilliams, Richard T.
Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 INDTōma, Rei.
Summary: Despite the fact that their marriage was political, Prince Caesar has come to care for Princess Nakaba and, when Nakaba begins to warm up to Caesar as well, her attendant, Loki, is not happy about it. But, when a prince from a neighboring country discovers that Nakaba possesses the Arcana of Time, both Caesar and Loki find it difficult to keep her away from the man, someone who can tell her who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012