Summary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPDaskal, Lolly
Summary: "Inc. magazine's most popular writer, executive coach Lolly Daskal explains how anyone can recognize and leverage the leadership gaps that stand in the way of greatness. When successful people begin to feel uncertain or challenged at work, the one thingthey want to know most is why things are going wrong after they have gone right for so long. In The Leadership Gap, Lolly Daskal reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 DASSummary: Lonely Planet's Great Britain is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Puzzle the mysteries of Stonehenge, sip whisky in Scotland, and hike the mountains of Wales; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global 2023
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Summary: The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 TAISummary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HERSummary: An electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GRAWinton, Tim
Summary: "A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, andswamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINTON, TIM WINJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 JOLLally, Caitriona.
Summary: A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hopeVivian doesn't feel like she fits in--and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, she is living alone in Dublin, where the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LALSummary: Popular historian David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war leaders in British history, both of whom were called Churchill. Everyone knows Winston Churchill led Britain and her Allies in their struggle against Hitler; less well known is John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, who led Britain and her Allies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XIV of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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Summary: A story of adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limit against nature and the power of the sea, and being with like-minded souls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2002
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 JOLJolly, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ. of Michigan Press 2009
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Summary: For the millions of fly fishers who are passionate about their sport, this gorgeous book is both a visual feast and the perfect reference. The Art of the Fishing Fly includes a history of fly fishing focusing on the evolution of fishing flies; a guide to essential equipment; a how-to section on tying three key flies by three top fly tyers; and essays by noted experts. The book's core includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 LOLSwinton, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.897 SWIWilsdon, Christina
Summary: This fun, smart guide answers kids' questions as it takes them on a journey through the human body and all its systems. The book is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips, top-10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612 WILWilson, Judith
Contents: Introduction -- Casual style -- Country casual style -- City casual style -- Casual elements -- Easy colours -- Simple surfaces -- Fuss-free fabrics -- Atmospheric lighting -- Storage & display -- Flowers & firelight -- Casual rooms -- Relaxed kitchens -- Cosy sitting rooms -- Tranquil bedrooms -- Soothing bathrooms --Children's spaces -- Boltholes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryland Peters & Small 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 747 WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 747 WILKingston, Maxine Hong
Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINFunston, Sylvia
Summary: Presents the secret life of animals and reveals if they have feelings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 591.59 FUNSmith, Olly
Summary: "Here are 80 seriously simple alcoholic and booze-free cocktails that will help you bring joyful moments to the everyday; all you need to do is add sparkles. Whether it's champagne, cava, prosecco, cider, beer, tonic, soda, ginger ale, or kombucha, theseare wonderful bubbly recipes for every occasion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 SMIWilsdon, Christina
Summary: "Reference book for children about all predators in the animal world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2018
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Summary: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers. Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.6 RICChurchill, Winston
Summary: Covers the beginning of the summer of 1943 to the evening of June 5, 1943 with the great armada waiting for the historic landing on June 6.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1951