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Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied Concertos (Violins (2) with string orchestra) Conduct of life Conduct of life Juvenile literature Friendship Lord's prayer (Music) Oratorios Excerpts Picture books for children Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile literature United StatesFilter By Subjects
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied Concertos (Violins (2) with string orchestra) Conduct of life Conduct of life Juvenile literature Friendship Lord's prayer (Music) Oratorios Excerpts Picture books for children Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile literature United StatesSummary: It explores the remarkable life of Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of American gastronomy. Tower began his career at the renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1972, becoming a pioneering figure in the emerging California cuisine movement. After leaving Chez Panisse, due in part to a famously contentious relationship with founder Alice Waters,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JERStein, Gertrude
Summary: "Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOKLAS, ALICE B. STESmee, Sebastian
Summary: "Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 SMERoberts, Randy
Summary: "Freshly adapted for young readers, this in-depth portrait showcases the complex bond between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, revealing how Malcolm aided in molding Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali and helped him become an international symbol of Black pride and Black independence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROBRicca, Brad
Summary: " 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, O RICGordinier, Jeff
Summary: "A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef Rene Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer. Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection. Feeling stuck in his work and home life, writer Jeff Gordinier happened into a fateful meeting with Danish chef...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROBLovell, Mary S
Summary: The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 LOVKindred, Dave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 KINRoberts, Randy
Summary: In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam--a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation s message. The two became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ROBMann, Jim
Summary: "A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 MANHazzard, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAZDavis, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.713 DAVRobertson, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA. PRINCESS ROBMoulton, Mo
Summary: "Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a renowned crime novelist who achieved fame and fortune during a period that historian Mo Moulton calls 'the day after the revolution.' In a time when just as many doors were closed to women as open, Sayers found professional success with her Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Yet she never could have done it without the cohort of remarkable women she met at university...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAYERS, DOROTHY L. MOUWood, Gordon S
Summary: "From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequentfalling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOOFreeman, Amy
Summary: "In an age when humans are more disconnected from nature than ever, the future of our species and the ecosystems that support us will be endangered if wilderness is lost. Wilderness nourishes us and is the North Star guiding us toward a sustainable future. We must not lose sight of its value, and we must speak loudly for these quiet places."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 FREContents: Leonore overture : no. 3 / Beethoven (14:35) -- Trio for piano, violin & cello in A minor, op. 50. I., Pezzo elegiaco / Tchaikovsky (18:20) -- Sonata for cello & piano in G minor, op. 19. III., Andante / Rachmaninoff (6:46) -- Dichterliebe : op. 48 / Schumann (30:00) -- Concerto for 2 violins & [string] orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043 / J.S. Sebastian Bach (16:00) -- Pater noster / Tchaikovsky...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CONSummary: For this book, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories. Some of these recollections are warm and intimate, celebrating Diana for her ability to make a human connection with everyone she met, others are perceptive and revealing, even about her human failings and frailties. Together, they coalesce into a multifaceted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.0850 KINMidorikawa, Emily
Summary: Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but the world's most celebrated female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their investigations into a wealth of surprising collaborations, such as the friendships between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe or Virginia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MIDDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DAMLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARLienemann, David
Summary: "These visually arresting photographs and behind-the-scenes stories show Biden stepping into his own as a leader ready to guide a nation in distress. This book traces Biden's vice presidency in unprecedented detail, shedding light on who he is as a political leader and patriot, and also as a father, husband, and friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 LIERice, Condoleezza
Summary: A former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011