Oliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLIHoffman, Mary
Summary: Simplified retellings of Greek and Roman myths, including those about Icarus, the boy whose father made him wings, and King Midas, who had the golden touch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HOFRodgers, Mary
Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Contents: [Disc 1]. Turning away -- Still believing -- One & only -- Wonder child -- Don't say OK -- Wildest dreams -- Dimming of the day -- Babes in the wood -- Speaking with the angel -- I misunderstood -- I will be there -- Bless the road -- The circus -- Just a journey -- Flesh & blood -- Song for Ireland 2001. [disc 2]. Who knows where the time goes -- Ring them bells -- Saw you running -- Ae fond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curb Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BLAPeter, Paul, and Mary (Musical group)
Contents: Early in the morning -- 500 miles -- Lemon tree -- If I had a hammer (single version) -- Where have all the flowers gone -- Puff, the magic dragon -- Cruel war -- This land is your land -- Blowin' in the wind -- Stewball -- Don't think twice, it's all right -- For lovin' me -- For baby (for Bobbie) -- Times they are a changin' (live) -- Early mornin' rain -- Leaving on a jet plane -- I dig...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PETTravers, Mary
Contents: Children one and all -- Circus -- Erika with the windy yellow hair -- The first time ever I saw your face -- Follow me -- I guess he'd rather be in Colorado -- Indian sunset -- I wish I knew how it would feel to be free -- On the path of glory (La colline au whisky) -- Rhymes and reasons -- Song for the asking -- Song is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Music 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.8 TRARoach, Mary.
Summary: Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Summary: The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history and to the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 SHARoach, Mary
Summary: "What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don't shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this whip-smart, funny, and informative young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars, Roach guides us through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.0919 ROABeard, Mary
Summary: "From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who getscommemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.02 BEABeard, Mary
Summary: From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld BeardSummary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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McCarthy, Mary
Summary: Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCJoslin, Mary.
Summary: Collects stories that highlight the strengths and weaknesses of human nature and the consequences of foolish choices, in a work featuring tales from such countries as Nigeria, Turkey, Bhutan, and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Children's 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 JOSPapenfuss, Mary.
Summary: The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center—the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world’s most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 PAPRoach, Mary.
Summary: Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit RoachRoach, Mary
Summary: "Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Animal Wild RoachSieghart, Mary Ann
Summary: "An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite the progress we've made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SIEOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "What did it mean to be a ninja or a samurai? Did they really have special abilities? What was life like for them in ancient Japan? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts behind some of history's most intriguing and secretive figures"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 OSBCarpenter, Mary-Chapin.
Contents: Stones in the road -- Long way home -- Shut up and kiss me -- I take my chances -- I feel lucky -- Almost home -- Halley came to Jackson -- I am a town -- Quittin' time -- Down at the Twist and Shout -- He thinks he'll keep her -- Only a dream -- Late for your life -- Hard way -- Passionate kisses -- 10,000 miles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Carpenter 2003Engelbreit, Mary
Summary: A collection of folk and fairy tales includes "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ENGMcCarthy, Mary
Summary: In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group. In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCProfessor Longhair
Contents: Tell me pretty baby -- Mess around -- Everyday I have the blues -- Tipitina -- I'm movin' on -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans -- Cry to me -- Gone so long -- Stagger Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PROBrowne, Sylvia.
Summary: The author draws on insights from her spirit guide, as well as research into the gnostic texts, to explore the lives of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007