Thomas, Louisa
Summary: An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, LOUISA THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom ThomasHoare, Philip.
Summary: Taking us deep into the whales domain, Hoare shows us these mysterious creatures as they have never been seen before. He explores the troubled history of man and whale; visits the historic whaling locales of New Bedford, Nantucket, and the Azores; and traces the whale's cultural history from Johah to Free Willy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 HOAHoare, Philip.
Summary: Navigating between human and natural history and between science and myth, chronicles the author's journey through the oceans to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts, and to seek encounters with animals and people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4092 HOAPlaidy, Jean
Summary: As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There she is married to the king's eldest son, Arthur, a sickly boy who dies six months after the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who was never truly a wife, lonely in a strange land, with a very bleak future. Her only hope of escape is to marry the king's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAAlcott, Louisa May
Contents: The rival painters -- The masked marriage -- The rival prima donnas -- The little seed -- A New Year's blessing -- The sisters' trial -- Little Genevieve -- Bertha -- Mabel's May day -- The lady and the woman -- Ruth's secret -- The cross on the church tower -- Agatha's confession -- Little sunbeam -- Marion Earle; or, Only an actress -- Mark Field's mistake -- Mark Field's success -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ironweed Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "After the success of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories remarkable for their forthright assertion of women's rights. In the largely autobiographical Work: A Story of Experience, twenty-one-year-old orphan, Christie Devon, announces 'a new Declaration of Independence' and pursues economic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCPreston, Louisa
Summary: Ultimately, we need to figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the confines of the Earth and colonise another body in the Solar System, such as the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction? These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology-- the study of the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 PREL Wolfe Gilbert R Fall
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1924
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKaufman, Sarah L.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic teaches us to appreciate--and enact--grace in every dimension, from the physical to the emotional,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KAUAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: This story collection includes: Hospital Sketches, Up the Rhine, Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Recollections of My Childhood and many more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ironweed Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 ALCSummary: Emerging from under the cloud of bankruptcy, Northwest Airlines has cut
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi / J. Jarman (9:47) -- Funky AEOC / Art Ensemble (7:39) -- Walking in the moonlight / R. Mitchell (4:07) -- The bell piece / R.E. Mitchell (6:02) -- Zero / L. Bowie (5:55) -- Third decade / F.D. Moye, Art Ensemble (8:19)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTSummary: When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LOSMeyer, Judith L.
Contents: Revolutionary ideas and evolutionary processes -- The discovery accounts -- Following in the footsteps -- The art of the Yellowstone -- Experiencing Yellowstone -- The idea of the ideal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.752 MEYBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Summary: After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAUArt Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Coming soon (1:31) -- African woman = Umafazi w ese Afriki (13:54) -- Fundamental destiny (9:13) -- Fresh start (6:41) -- Khauleza = Hurry up (2:43) -- The bottom line (5:31) -- Black man = Indoda emnyama (9:18)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DIW 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTArt of Noise (Musical group)
Contents: A time for fear (Who's afraid) -- Beat box (Diversion one) -- Snapshot -- Close (to the edit) -- Who's afraid (of the Art of Noise) -- Moments in love -- Momento -- How to kill -- Realization.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTCline, Elizabeth L.
Summary: Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion's hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.3 CLIBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRFarmer, Art.
Contents: Street of dreams (4:13) -- Rain check (3:37) -- Rue prevail (4:03) -- The sweetest sounds (from "No strings") (4:32) -- My romance (from "Jumbo") (4:52) -- Fly me to the moon (2:51) -- Naima (5:18) -- Ruby (4:33)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1962
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARSummary: In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOSFox, William L.
Summary: "Examines the relationship of art, land and history in the Antarctic. An interdisciplinary study of the science and art of the continent. Observes life at McMurdo Station and Pole, describing scientific research and daily operations"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 FOXSummary: Throughout history, one type of individual has instinctively grasped art's power to persuade and manipulate-and indeed, images have become at least as deadly as swords or guns in the hands of political and military leaders. This program revolves around a basic question: when did art mutate from a vehicle of the imagination into a tool of the ruler? Beginning in Britain, the program looks at the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Johnson, Rebecca L.
Summary: Presents animals that use camouflauge to survive, including the harlequin filefish, the gliding lizard, and the cuckoo finch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2016