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Series
Vampire chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire Lestat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit in conversations that range from modern marriage to virgin births, from saviors to heroes in the Power of Myth--a great summing up of Campbell's works.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxv, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now this long-lost memoir--90% Newman's own narrative, interspersed with wonderful stories and recollections...
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xxii, 247 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For anyone who has ever had the desire to look at the world through the eyes of our indigenous ancestors, here is a unique opportunity. Traveling between the Worlds is a treasure-trove of insight and exploration into the ancient spiritual wisdom of such diverse cultures as those found in Ireland, Africa, and the Americas. The keeper of this wisdom is the shaman--a man or woman who can, at will, enter altered states of consciousness in order to acqauire...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.
Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes!...
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.
Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes!...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This very special music documentary is based on a full exclusive interview done with Ella at her home in 1985. Hosted by Nancy Wilson, the program features 22 songs that celebrate and highlight Fitzgerald's stellar career and fascinating personal life. Exclusive interviews featuring Quincy Jones, Shirley Horn, Al Jarreau, Anita O'Day, Dr. Billy Taylor and George Wein enhance this entertaining and valuable chronicle no music love should be without."--Container....
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Language
English
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An outlaw's legacy...
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, his fists, but a man who's never broken the law.
Now, as treachery explodes among Ben's...
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, his fists, but a man who's never broken the law.
Now, as treachery explodes among Ben's...
Language
English
Description
"Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words--direct, accessible, and unfiltered--in Season Four of the Emmy-nominated ART:21--ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY documentary series. ... This unique four-hour series spotlights 17 artists working in the United States today, and invites viewers behind the scenes to see artists at work in their homes, communities, and unexpected sites--from an old-growth forest to a military base to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 895
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
An absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xv, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book celebrates the flowering of women in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman set out to explore this phenomenon by interviewing some of the remarkable women who were teaching Buddhism in the United States. The seventeen women she writes about vary in background, personality, and form of teaching. Together the represent the growing presence and influence of women teachers in America--a development that will surely affect Buddhism in the West for...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Language
English
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In 1973, Marilyn Sayre gave up her job as a computer programmer and became the first woman in twenty years to run a commercial boat through the Grand Canyon. Georgie White had been the first, back in the 1950s, but it took time before other women broke into guiding passengers down the Colorado River. This book profiles eleven of the first full-season Grand Canyon boatwomen, weaving together their various experiences in their own words.
Breaking...
Breaking...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
“Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly,” declares Dolly Parton. Dolly’s is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly’s metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar. The undisputed “Queen of Country Music,” Dolly has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and has conquered just about every facet of the entertainment industry: music, film,...
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 3 hrs. 45 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Language
English
Description
HighBridge Audio presents over three hours of National Public Radio's distinguished talk show Fresh Air, fronted by Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross. Presented here are intimate interviews with eighteen comedians, including Stephen Colbert, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Steve Martin.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the phenomenal journey of renowned artist Matthew Barney and his collaborator, singer-songwriter Björk, as they embark on an unbelievable filmmaking journey in Japan. From artistic vision to manifestation, this compelling documentary reveals Barney's unique process in creating Drawing restraint 9, a massive cinematic piece that combines a whaling vessel; 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly; and traditional Japanese rituals in one fantastical...
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