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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to the public library: the unmistakable, slightly musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly-discovered books. Today's libraries also function as de facto community centers, and offer free access to the Internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter along with the endless possibilities that spark your imagination the moment you open the cover of a book. There...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Witty, incisive, at times prophetic, and always original, this collection offers the best of Peggy Noonan's writing. The book travels the path of her remarkable career, showing how she became one of the most influential voices in America. It begins with an essay about Noonan's motivations as a writer and thinker, followed by a personal talk on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded and the drafting of the speech Ronald Reagan would soon deliver....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
44) The list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lewis, a dashing young publishing executive, has been dumped in front of millions on live television. He decides to get serious about love and creates a list that his perfect mate must match. Just when he thinks he's found her, she might not be the one.
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A luxurious collection of the best recipes from the world's leading Italian cookbook - with all new photography and design. First published in 1950, Il Cucchiaio d'Argento, or its English-language offspring The Silver Spoon, is the ultimate compilation of traditional home-cooking Italian dishes. In this all-new luxurious book, The Silver Spoon Classic features 170 of the very best-of-the-best recipes from Italy's incredibly diverse regions. Carefully...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"Time to meet an increase in the lives of mathematicians, this volume covers over 300 of them, from antiquity to the present. Many contemporary African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American women are included. The alphabetically arranged entries contain a heading with name, birth and death dates, field of specialization, nationality, and ethnicity when applicable, as well as a picture when possible. An accompanying essay describes the...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
48) Caddyshack
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story centers around Danny Noonan, who is desperate to win the college scholarship awarded to the best caddy at Bushwood Country Club. Also involved are a millionaire who wants to turn the golf course into a a new property development and a greenskeeper who is about to start World War III--against a gopher.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, and discussion guide Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia"--Container....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's...
53) 45 years
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
54) El Seminarista
Publisher
Quality Films
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Español
Description
"Miguel regresa a su pueblo natal de la escuela seminarista acompañado por Toño, su devoto amigo del seminario. Él visita a su mujeriego y parrandero tío Pancho quien le dice a Miguel que no es lo suficiente hombre y lleva a Toño a su parranda. Miguel enseña en una escuela para señoritas. Sale con muchas celosas amantes, mujeres liberales, y varias tentaciones. Ultimadamente, Miguel deja el sacerdocio con un suspiro de alivio para casarse con...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Program 3: Examines what the universe is made of by utilizing particle accelerators to glimpse fragments of the explosive process believed to have generated stars and planets. This episode features the basics: fire, water, air, and gas in addition to more complex findings of elements and matter from the creation of the Periodic Table to Einstein's famous theory of relativity.
Program 4: At night the stars are seen in the blackness of space. But is...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
58) The Cole Porter song book: the complete words and music of forty of Cole Porter's best-loved songs
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1959
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics asThe Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Blvd (1950). In this annotated collection of writings taken from dozens of...
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