Frances, Allen
Summary: It is comforting to see President Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one-off, an exception -- not a reflection on us or our democracy. But in ways I never anticipated, his rise was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our soul. What does it say about us, that we elected someone so manifestly unfit and unprepared to determine mankind's future? Trump is a symptom of a world in distress, not its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.6 FRAAshcroft, Frances M.
Summary: Looks at the role of electricity in the human body, covering the colorful history of how scientists discovered this role, the current state of knowledge of electrophysiology, and how new discoveries are driving advances in medicine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.014 ASHHaugen, Frances
Summary: "The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on "the Facebook Files," Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of pages of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAUGEN, FRANCES HAUMayes, Frances.
Summary: The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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Summary: "A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS WILDinkelspiel, Frances
Summary: "On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 DINMayes, Frances
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYHill, Frances
Summary: "An entertaining and suspenseful drama that is also a cautionary tale for our times."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 HILEngland, Frances.
Summary: Frances England has filled her third album with fun indie pop songs that the whole family can enjoy. An easy mix of songs from a child's perspective. The title song is about children maneuvering through parents' rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances England 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ENGBurnett, Frances Hodgson
Summary: “Everything ’s a story. You are a story—I am a story.” From the people and places around her, Frances Hodgson Burnett, who moved to America from England at age fifteen, found stories enough for over forty novels and plays—including the three still-beloved classics of children’s literature presented in this Library of America volume. Restoring the novels to their original, unabridged American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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Summary: With a stellar horn section and plenty of funk, Tower of Power created a unique sound. The hits from their time at Warner Brothers, which includes the hit What is Hip, are all featured here.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Archives 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TOWLappé, Frances Moore
Summary: Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It’s not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It’s feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 LAPBritish Sea Power
Contents: Men toghether today -- Apologies to insect life -- Favours in the beetroot fields -- Something wicked -- Remember me -- Fear of drowning -- The lovely -- Carrion -- Blackout -- Lately -- A wooden horse -- Childhood memories -- Heavenly waters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Trade Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BritiPalmer, Frances
Summary: "To step into potter Frances Palmer's world is to be surrounded by the trappings of a life that has been intentionally-and painstakingly-built to maximize creativity. A light-filled, airy studio in which to make her pottery, with a corner always at the ready for her daily photo shoots. Cutting gardens overflowing with flowers to be snipped as inspiration strikes. Shelves of cookbooks to peruse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Power, Samantha
Summary: Pulitzer Prize winning humanitarian Samantha Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" In this memoir, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. In 2005, her critiques of U.S. foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POWER POWFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, M.F.K. FISMayes, Frances.
Summary: The celebrated "bard of Tuscany " (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.5 MAYHardinge, Frances
Summary: On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARGies, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.65 GIEHardinge, Frances
Summary: When Neverfell, who has no memory, arrives in Caverna, her facial expressions make her very dangerous to the people who live with blank faces or pay dearly to learn to simulate emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARCook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 FrancisMayes, Frances.
Summary: In this sequel to her" New York Times" bestsellers" Under the Tuscan Sun" and" Bella Tuscany," the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" ("New York Times") Frances Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010