Swartz, Mimi
Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAZIER, O. HOWARD SWAModern English (Musical group)
Contents: Someone's calling -- Life in the gladhouse -- Face of wood -- Dawn chorus -- I melt with you -- After the snow -- Carry me down -- Tables turning -- Someone's calling (remix) -- Life in the gladhouse (remix) -- I melt with you (7" mix) -- The prize -- Life in the gladhouse (12" mix) -- The choicest view.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELRuoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOWood, Gordon S.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.3 WOOFay, Bill.
Contents: Omego day -- Don't let my marigolds die -- I hear you calling -- Dust filled room -- "til the Christ come back -- Release is in the eye -- Laughing man -- Inside the keepers pantry -- Tell it like it is -- Plan D -- Pictures of Adolf again -- Time of the last persecution -- Come a day -- Let all the other teddies know.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FaySwartz, Sarah Silberstein
Summary: "Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 SWASmile Down Upon Us (Musical group)
Contents: Girl of a skin-coloured blanket no 2 -- Child's walk -- My body continents -- Two weeks last summer -- Qookino farm and tractor factory band -- Kotoba no yukue -- Rayla no lullaby -- Ken ken pah -- A vessel in the fragrance -- Child's walk reprise -- Tip toe through the tulips
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: digital
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMIWood, Levison
Summary: "Starting in the Yucatán, Wood sets out on an epic walking voyage, moving through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, travelling in the opposite direction along vital migrant routes. Journeying from sleepy barrios to glamourous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness, Wood forges new relationships along the way that stand at the heart of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.28 WOOWood, Tom
Summary: " ... Filled with more than 200 spectacular color photographs, this accessible guide makes it easy to identify a variety of birds in the continental United States, as well as in parts of Canada and Mexico ..."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 WOOSummary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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United States of America (Musical group)
Contents: The American metaphysical circus -- Hard coming love -- Cloud song -- The garden of earthly delights -- I won't leave my wooden wife for you, Sugar -- Where is yesterday -- Coming down -- Love song for the dead che -- Stranded in time -- The American way of love: pt. 1 Metaphor for an older man/pt. 2 California -- Osamu's birthday -- No love to give -- I won't leave my wood wife for you, Sugar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundazed Music, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UNIWood, Wendy
Summary: Wood draws on three decades of original research to explain the fascinating science of how we form habits, and offers the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.3 WOOSummary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Recent U.S. Census figures provide dramatic testimony to the growth of the Latino population. This program looks at the "Three Houses of Latino Culture"-Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American-and their widespread influence from entertainment to politics to economics. Key issues include how long Hispanics have been in America and how U.S. immigration laws affect their assimilation. Interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Eaton, John.
Contents: Introduction, biography, and opening comments from the perspective of a New York cab driver -- Get happy -- Jay Leonhart's introduction and commentary on the influence of Gershwin, the Cotton Club, and jazz on Harold Arlen -- Cotton Club medley -- Commentary on Arlen's influence on jazz -- Let's fall in love -- Blues in the night -- Commentary on Arlen's incorporation of the blues in his work...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wolf Trap 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN EATAmerican Hi-Fi (Musical group)
Contents: Surround -- Flavor of the weak -- Bigger mood -- Safer on the outside -- I'm a fool -- Hi-fi killer -- Blue day -- My only enemy -- Don't wait for the sun -- Another perfect day -- Scar -- What about today -- Wall of sound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMESummary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Jethro Tull (Musical group)
Contents: Songs from the wood. -- Jack-in-the-green. -- Cup of wonder. -- Hunting girl. -- Ring out, solstice bells. -- Velvet green. -- The whistler. -- Pibroch (cap in hand). -- Fire at midnight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM JethroSummary: After the horrors of World War I, Latin American writing turned away from what many saw as ornamental and frivolous experimentation. This program studies the so-called "criticism of Modernismo within Modernismo" in which language reached back to a simpler, more intimate, less urban-centered framework. Investigating the work of several poets and authors of the period-including Enrique Gonzalez...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Wood, Maryrose.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOSummary: After the horrors of World War I, Latin American writing turned away from what many saw as ornamental and frivolous experimentation. This program studies the so-called "criticism of Modernismo within Modernismo" in which language reached back to a simpler, more intimate, less urban-centered framework. Investigating the work of several poets and authors of the period-including Enrique Gonzalez...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Wood, Levison
Summary: "Ever since he was young, Levison Wood has been fascinated by elephants and their fight for survival. While trekking the Nile he finally saw these beasts up close, and in The Last Giants, he satisfies his lifelong desire to learn more about the majestic African elephant. These giants journey through some of Africa's most magnificent landscapes as they go in search of life-giving waters and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020