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1 of 1	Longmont Adult Nonfiction	920 AIK

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[2003]

Lexington Books

xviii, 388 p. ; 23 cm.

2) The hero project: 2 teens, 1 notebook, 13 extraordinary interviews

Author:

Hatch, Robert

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date:

[2006]

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English

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xviii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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1 of 1	Longmont Adult Nonfiction	920.009 HAT

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[2006]

McGraw-Hill

3) Life stories: profiles from The New Yorker

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Random House

Pub. Date:

2000

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English

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920.073 Life

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2000

Random House

xii, 530 p.; 25 cm.

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920.073 Life

4) The impossible exile: Stefan Zweig at the end of the world

Author:

Prochnik, George

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Other Press

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[2014]

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English

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838.09 Zweig

390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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[2014]

Other Press

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5) A torch kept lit: great lives of the twentieth century

Documents the tragic story of the intellectual, humanitarian, and best-selling author to trace his rapid downfall after the rise of the Nazi party and the years of exile in various world regions that culminated in his 1942 suicide.

Author:

Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008

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Crown Forum

Pub. Date:

2016

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English

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973.91 Buck

323 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.

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1 of 1	Boulder Main Adult NonFiction	973.91 Buck
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0 of 1	Louisville Adult NonFiction	973.91 BUCKLEY

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2016

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Crown Forum

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973.91 Buck

6) Josef Albers: life and work

Author:

Darwent, Charles

Publisher:

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Pub. Date:

2018

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English

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709.04 Albers

335 pages , [23] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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2018

Thames & Hudson Ltd

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709.04 Albers

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While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the 'Homages to the Square', a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States...

7) Slipstream

Author:

Howard, Elizabeth Jane

Publisher:

Open Road Media

Pub. Date:

2016

Language:

English

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2016	Hoopla	Open Road Media	1 online resource (493 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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8) Krishnamurti in America: new perspectives on the man and his message

The intimate and revealing memoir of the woman behind the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles and a fascinating window into the British literary world. One of Britain's most famous and beloved authors, Elizabeth Jane Howard's life was as rich, varied, and passionate as the characters in her novels. In her brutally honest, at times humorous, wholly captivating autobiography, the woman who felt she lived "in the slipstream of experience" employs her prodigious...

Author:

Moody, David Edmund

Publisher:

Alpha Centauri Pres

Pub. Date:

2020

Language:

English

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181.4 Krishnamurt

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2020	First Edition	Alpha Centauri Pres	354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm	On Shelf Boulder Main Adult NonFiction 181.4 Krishnamurt	More Info Place Hold

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"For more than fifty years, J. Krishnamurti gave public talks to audiences around the world in which he expressed a revolutionary new understanding of consciousness, daily life, and the human condition. Krishnamurti in America is the first biography to tell the complete story of his life in the United States, and it presents a new perspective on his life and his teaching. It is a story of love and betrayal, lawsuits and enlightenment, passion and...

9) The illustrated Cider with Rosie

Author:

Lee, Laurie

Publisher:

Cresset Press

Pub. Date:

1993, 1984

Language:

English

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828 Lee

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1 of 1	Boulder Main Adult NonFiction	828 Lee
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1993, 1984

Cresset Press

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828 Lee

10) Surrealism: 50 works of art you should know

Author:

Finger, Brad

Publisher:

Prestel

Pub. Date:

2013

Language:

English

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141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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1 of 1	Longmont Adult Nonfiction	709.04063 FIN

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2013

Prestel

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This title on the surrealist art movement features paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, film stills, and architecture, displaying the enormous breadth and variety of Surrealism.

11) Best of Prairie Schooner: personal essays

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University of Nebraska Press

Pub. Date:

[2000]

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English

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University of Nebraska Press

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1 of 1	Longmont Adult Nonfiction	814 BES

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[2000]

viii, 195 p. ; 23 cm.

12) Nabokov en 90 minutos

Author:

Strathern, Paul

Publisher:

Siglo XXI

Pub. Date:

2017

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Spanish

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Muy pocos autores del siglo XX, si es que hay alguno, pueden alardear de haber escrito tantas obras maestras. Al usar el inglés, Nabokov transformaba la lengua haciéndola enteramente suya. Le iba a su carácter como un guante: su compleja articulación, sus florituras y guiños, encajan perfectamente con la complejidad de su mente de hechicero. Cada juego de manos cuadra con cada adorable artificio del pensamiento como una extensión sigue a otra...

13) Must you go?: my life with Harold Pinter

Author:

Fraser, Antonia, 1932-

Publisher:

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Pub. Date:

[2010]

Language:

English

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823.09 Fraser

328 p., [16] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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[2010]

1st American ed

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

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823.09 Fraser

14) Rough magic: a biography of Sylvia Plath

Author:

Alexander, Paul, 1955-

Publisher:

Da Capo Press

Pub. Date:

2003

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English

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811.09 Plath

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2003	2nd Da Capo Press ed	Da Capo Press	402 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.	On Shelf Boulder Main Adult NonFiction 811.09 Plath	More Info Place Hold

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Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004

Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.

15) Six men

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Open Road Media

Pub. Date:

2015

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English

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Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the most Over the course of his sixty-year career as a broadcaster, television host, and newspaper reporter, Alistair Cooke met many remarkable people of the twentieth century. This entertaining and insightful collection shares his unique, often startling personal vision of six key figures from the worlds...

16) Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners

Author:

Brennan, Elizabeth A.

Publisher:

Oryx Press

Pub. Date:

1999

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English

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xxii, 666 p. : ports. ; 26 cm.

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1 of 1	Louisville Adult Reference	REF 071.3 BRE

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1999

Oryx Press

17) Current biography: Cumulated index, 1940-1995

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H.W. Wilson

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[1996]

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English

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1 of 1	Loveland Adult Nonfiction - Reference	920 CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: CUMULA 1940 95

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18) The memory chalet

Author:

Judt, Tony

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English

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828.09 Judt

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1 of 1	Boulder Main Adult NonFiction	828.09 Judt
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2010

Penguin Press

xiv, 226 p. ; 22 cm.

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828.09 Judt

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2021	Hoopla	Unabridged	Tantor Media, Inc	1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 04 min.)) : digital.	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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"'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation 'was a revolutionary...

19) The heart of a woman

Author:

Angelou, Maya

Language:

English

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818 Angelou

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1 of 1	Louisville Adult Biographies	BIO ANGELOU
1 of 1	Loveland Adult - Biography	AB Angelou, M.

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1st 1997 ed

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818 Angelou

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3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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Abridged

[1997]

Abridged

Random House Audio

Abridged

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Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015

In the fourth volume of her autobiography, the author describes her experiences as a singer-dancer in New York and her impressions of the Civil Rights movement

20) Hunter of stories

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English

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863.64 Galeano

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2017.

First English-language edition

New Books

251 pages ; 22 cm

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863.64 Galeano

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