Deluxe, Jean-Emmanuel
Contents: The 1960s -- Panorama -- Social Affairs -- Ye-Ye Girls & Marriage -- The Media -- A General View -- The Rock Papers -- Television -- The Four Aces Of Hearts -- France Gall -- Françoise Hardy -- Sylvie Vartan -- Chantal Goya -- Serge Gainsbourg's Filles De La Pop -- From Literary Chanteur to Pop Entrepreneur -- Initials B.B. -- Jane B.: Nationality: British, Sex: Female -- His Majesty Serge's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLTimberlake, Justin
Summary: "In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TIMBERLAKE TIMMcCartney, Paul
Summary: Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREGraham, Felicia
Summary: Flat track roller derby is one of the country's fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world. Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport, and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.21 GRASummary: "Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life is a stunning collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera celebrating Billy Strayhorn, one of the most significant yet under-appreciated contributors to 20th century American music. Released in commemoration of Strayhorn's centennial, this luxurious coffee-table book offers intimate details of the composer's life from musicians, scholars, and Strayhorn's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden an Agate Imprint 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRAYHORN, BILLY STRSouza, Pete
Summary: Go behind the scenes of the West Wing--into the Oval Office and Situation Room, aboard Air Force One, and beyond--with #1 bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOUBurgan, Michael
Summary: Discusses the life of the famous African American track and field star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Sport BurganLoggia, Wendy
Summary: "Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy Award-winning and multiplatinum artist. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SWISummary: "For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book celebrates Diana Spencer's life in pictures. Page after page of inside photos from the legendary National Geographic archives document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by Diana friend and biographer Tina Brown adds context and nuance to a poignant life twenty years after her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS REMYang, Kelly
Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANMoore, Johnny Ray
Summary: "Meet Martin Luther King Jr., the celebrated civil rights leader. With this simple book, little learners will discover who Martin was--how he excelled in school, became a minister, and worked to end segregation in America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JE MOO (BOARD)Souza, Pete
Summary: As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone else. His years photographing the President gave him an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the unique gravity of the Office of the Presidency -- and the tremendous responsibility that comes with it. His latest collection is a portrait in Presidential contrasts, telling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 SOUFournier, Vincent
Summary: "Vincent Fournier's visionary photographs provide an imaginative look at space exploration by merging fantasy with reality in images of rockets, otherwordly landscapes, research facilities, and cosmonauts. To produce these extraordinary images, Fournier has collaborated with the world's major space centers and astronomical observatories, including NASA, the European Space Agency, the Russian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libri Illustrati Rizzoli 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 FOULee, Leslie
Summary: We Are The Land is an exploration of Ireland--its ancient history, DNA, and culture through the adventurous search of four sisters for their Irish ancestry. The author's interest in how ancient languages evolved and migrated leads readers through the heart of Ireland to the modern revolution of the ancestral DNA of the Irish people. The author investigates the parallels between mythology,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leslie Lee Publisher 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.5 LEEReid, Georgina
Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.022 REITwain, Mark
Summary: Mark Twain’s life—one of the richest and raciest America has known—is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America’s most colorful personalities. The words are Twain’s own, taken from his writings—not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWADill, Khodi
Summary: An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes for little ones, their families, and anyone who loves A is for Activist and Antiracist Baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DILGordon, Linda.
Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GORLevinson, Cynthia
Summary: Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HENDRICKS LEVMurakami, Haruki
Summary: "The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6 MURStauffer, John
Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK STAWilbur, Matika
Summary: "In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred thousand miles across fifty states--from Seminole country (now known as the Everglades) to Inuit territory (now known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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