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The lost summers of Newport : [sound recording] a novel / by Williams, Beatriz.; Willig, Lauren.; White, Karen(Karen S.); Maarleveld, Saskia,narrator.; Pressley, Brittany,narrator.; Flanagan, Lisa,narrator.;
Read by Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley, and Lisa Flanagan.2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class, famous for the lavish 'summer cottages' of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she's hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia ₃Lucky₄ Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother, the American-born Princess di Conti, fled Mussolini's Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn't seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth... and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever.'
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Family secrets;
© 2022., Harper Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Boxcar children collection. [sound recording] : three complete stories / by Warner, Gertrude Chandler,1890-1979,author.(CARDINAL)127406; Gregory, Tim,narrator.(CARDINAL)562866; Lilly, Aimee,narrator.(CARDINAL)688705;
Read by Tim Gregory and Aimee Lilly.Monkey trouble: It's spring and all the baby animals are being born-- a perfect time to visit the zoo. The Aldens and their friends are taking pictures there for a photo contest. But when cameras go missing and a girl is accused of cheating, the Boxcar children must find out just who is monkeying with the contest! The zombie project: While staying at the Winding River Lodge, the Aldens hear an old legend about a zombie who lives in the forest! The great turkey heist: There's going to be a free Thanksgiving dinner for the whole town of Greenfield-- except the turkey is missing!
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Boxcar children (Fictitious characters); Turkeys; Zombies; Zoos;
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Room [electronic resource] : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-(CARDINAL)353479; Archer, Ellen,narrator.; Friedman, Michael,narrator.(CARDINAL)372633; Petkoff, Robert,narrator.(CARDINAL)349086; Toren, Suzanne,narrator.(CARDINAL)530690; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Hachette Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)346394; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Michael Friedman, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren & Robert Petkoff.To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination -- the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells, the imaginary world projected through the TV, the coziness of Wardrobe below Ma's clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night in case Old Nick comes. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held since she was nineteen -- for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jack's curiosity is building alongside her own desperation -- and she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Boys; Mother and child;
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Home and alone / by Stern, Daniel,1957-author.(CARDINAL)844994;
Introduction -- Born free -- A young Jew on the Mason-Dixon line -- Glenn Close is my witness -- Living a Paul Simon song -- Meeting Laure -- Breaking Away aka my first porno -- Cocaine and coupons -- Shrevie and friends -- California here we come -- Driving Robert Redford at 100 miles per hour -- Kevin Arnold teaches me to read -- Enter Joe Roth -- "So what is Joe P̂̂̂̂̂̂esci really like?" -- The secret of my success? . . . getting fired! -- Ride 'em cowboy! -- Sequel time -- Rookie director--miracles on Wrigley Field -- No-brainers -- On the parquet with Larry Bird -- Barbra Streisand is getting married and I'm not invited -- Deep diving into Malibu -- Television--success, wrapped in disaster -- Too much of a good thing -- Papier mâché saves the day -- Iraq and back -- Sugar Tits and me -- President Obama makes me cry -- The play is the thing -- "What are the chances?!"."Simply a must read for anyone who seeks a behind-the-scenes peek of some of Hollywood's classic films . . . Beginning with his film debut in Breaking Away, Daniel Stern has grown up on-screen before our very eyes. His connection with audiences is cemented in movies like Home Alone and City Slickers, and in his debut memoir, Home and Alone, he is the Everyman narrator on a ride into the human side of Hollywood. Buckle up and experience what it's like driving Robert Redford in his Porsche at 100 mph, or stripping down for a nude scene in front of a group of total strangers. Share the out-of-body moments of flying alone with Mel Gibson on his jet to Las Vegas and smashing a fake mustache onto Gary Busey's face while cursing him out on the pitcher's mound of Wrigley Field in front of a sellout crowd. Join him in his triumphant stories like conquering his dyslexia as the voice of The Wonder Years, and his terrifying ones like being sued for $25 million by CBS and Columbia pictures. Touching and hysterical, often at the same time, Stern gives readers a peek at the highs and lows of a Hollywood career, and a closer look at the movies they love and the people who make them. Inspiring as it is humorous, Stern weaves a compelling tale of an artistic hippie-child of the 60's, who by age thirteen had hitchhiked his way across the Eastern half of the U.S.A. By age seventeen he had dropped out of high school and was living on his own in New York, and by nineteen he was starting a family of his own. His insights into marriage, children, parents and parenting are not only hilarious, but packed with subtle wisdom. But the real surprises are in Stern's off-screen roles as a bronze sculptor, cattle rancher, avocado farmer and public servant. The hard work and commitment he has put into his on-screen successes are applied with the same intensity to every aspect of his life. From creating monumental public art projects and founding a Boys & Girls Club to visiting troops in Iraq and learning to birth a cow, he has lived it all. Home and Alone is for anyone who needs reminding that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Stern, Daniel, 1957-; Motion picture actors and actresses;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Bauhaus : crucible of modernism / by Hochman, Elaine S.(CARDINAL)768371;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Youth, War, and Revolution -- 2. The Beauty of Efficient Form: Tyranny, Treason, or Salvation? Background to the Bauhaus -- 3. A Fragile Moment: Weimar, Gropius, and the Avant-Garde -- 4. Storming into Weimar: The City as Relic or Harbinger -- 5. A Hornet's Nest: Tradition Meets the New, Changed World -- 6. "A Plague Bacillus": The Political Implications of the Bauhaus, Imagined and Real -- 7. The Paradox of Bauhaus Politics, 1920: Denial and Pursuit -- 8. What Happened to November? The End of the Revolution and Its Implications for the Bauhaus -- 9. From Geist to Gadgets: The Bauhaus Attempts to Change -- 10. Victory or Total Destruction: The End of the Weimar Bauhaus -- 11. "Those Happier Shores": Young Americans Meet Europe -- 12. "Dessau Impossible" -- 13. Dessau 1927: A Critical Election -- 14. Triumph of the Right -- 15. Death and Transfiguration -- Epilogue: The Bauhaus in America.The Bauhaus is the most celebrated artistic institution of our time. In the fourteen years of its existence in Weimar Germany, the Bauhaus became a center where the ideas that would dominate art in the twentieth century clashed and became defined. The ideas forged within the school literally transformed our landscape. Almost nothing we read, wear, or live in is devoid of its influence.Hochman's access to the school's archives, previously off limits to Western scholars, provides an intimate day-to-day perspective of the school which reveals a different Bauhaus than the one projected by its latter-day champions in the U.S. This is the Bauhaus of its contemporaries, for whom the political and cultural implications were often more important than aesthetics.Yet there has been a history of the Bauhaus. For the first time, Elaine S. Hochman sets the school in the context of the turbulent times to which it was born following the collapse of Imperial Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus emerged just as radical social and political upheavals swept through Europe in the wake of World War I, a product of the convulsions of an age when the contest between ideologies was fought with the fervor of a religious war. Left was pitted against right of the streets, and these battles penetrated the walls of the Bauhaus as well. They shaped the destiny of the fledgling school and those who taught there, including some of the most illustrious names in the world of modern art - Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Subjects: Bauhaus;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Gandhi [audio-enabled device] / by Bailey, Diane,1966-author.(CARDINAL)486916; Ager, Charlotte,illustrator.(CARDINAL)785132; Balderrama, Joseph,narrator.; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Narrated by Joseph Balderrama.In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring life story of Mohandas Gandhi, whose teachings of compassion and non-violence helped to win his country's freedom. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at a time when his home country was choked under the oppression of British rule. Many thought that violence was the only way to fight back, but Gandhi disagreed. Instead, he successfully used his teachings of non-violence and civil disobedience to win his country's freedom, and to promote his philosophy of peace and equality. In this biography for kids ages 8-12, see how Gandhi--called Mahatma, or "great soul," by his many followers--changed the world through his words and deeds, which still resonate worldwide today. DK Life Stories go beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. Full-color photographs and hand-drawn illustrations complement thoughtfully written, age-appropriate text to create an engaging book children will enjoy reading. Definition boxes, information sidebars, fun facts, maps, inspiring quotes, and other nonfiction text features add depth, and a handy reference section at the back makes this series perfect for school reports and projects. Each book also includes an author's introduction letter, a glossary, and an index.Grades 1-4.Issued as a Wonderbook, a pre-loaded audiobook player permanently attached to a hardcover book.
Subjects: Children's sound recordings.; Biographies.; Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948; Statesmen; Pacifists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tripping over the Truth : how the metabolic theory of cancer is overturning one of medicine's most entrenched paradigms / by Christofferson, Travis,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanities darkest diagnosis. In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. Tripping over the Truth, follows the story of cancer's proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications. Transporting us on a rich narrative of humanity's struggle to understand the cellular events that conspire to form malignancy, Tripping Over the Truth reads like a detective novel, full of twists and cover-ups, blind-alleys and striking moments of discovery by men and women with uncommon vision, grit, and fortitude. Ultimately, Christofferson arrives at a conclusion that challenges everything we thought we knew about the disease, suggesting the reason for the failed war against cancer stems from a flawed paradigm that categorizes cancer as an exclusively genetic disease. For anyone affected by this terrifying disease and the physicians who struggle to treat it, this book provides a fresh and hopeful perspective. It explores the new and exciting non-toxic therapies born from the emerging metabolic theory of cancer. These therapies may one day prove to be a turning point in the struggle against our ancient enemy. We are shown how the metabolic theory redraws the battle map, directing researchers to approach cancer treatment from a different angle, framing it more like a gentle rehabilitation rather than all-out combat. In a sharp departure from the current "targeted" revolution occurring in cancer pharmaceuticals, the metabolic therapies highlighted have one striking feature that sets them apart, the potential to treat all types of cancer because they exploit the one weakness that is common to every cancer cell: dysfunctional metabolism. With contributions from Thomas Seyfried, PhD, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease; Miriam Kalamian, EdM, MS, CNS, author of The Ketogenic Diet for Cancer; and Beth Zupec Kania consultant nutritionist of The Charlie Foundation"--
Subjects: Cancer; Cancer; Cancer; Cancer;
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Denzil Forrester : duppy conqueror : we culture / by Forrester, Denzil,1956-artist.(CARDINAL)899903; Dziedzic, Erin,editor.(CARDINAL)899904; Moreno, Gean,1972-editor.(CARDINAL)886360; Beauchamp-Byrd, Mora J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)227484; Partridge, Christopher H.(Christopher Hugh),1961-contributor.(CARDINAL)649992; Johnson, Linton Kwesi,1952-contributor.(CARDINAL)349549; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami,host institution.(CARDINAL)884721; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,host institution.;
Includes bibliographical references."This volume presents 45 years of expressive paintings and drawings by Cornwall, UK-based artist Denzil Forrester (born 1956). Taking inspiration from London's dub reggae culture and clubs of the 1980s, Forrester's working process is analogous to creating versions or reconfigurations of the same music track. Forrester's numerous sketches from this period, made in the semi-darkness of urban dance halls, continue to inform his paintings today. References to the diaspora, dub reggae and the policing of Black cultural expression in Britain reverberate like a refrain throughout his practice. These figures and expressions read like a visual dub mix, echoing one another and reconstituting themselves while projecting the transformative energy of the music. Duppy, an African word that evokes spirits and ancestors, is related semantically to dub, or the altered recordings of familiar songs made anew. Accompanying exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, Denzil Forrester: Duppy Conqueror / We Culture includes over 200 color plates, newly commissioned scholarship, archival images and an annotated interview. It is the artist's most comprehensive publication to date."--This catalogue is published in conjunction with Denzil Forrester: Duppy Conquerer, on view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, from January 26 through May 6, 2023, curated by Erin Dziedzic, former Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Denzil Forrester: We Culture, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, from April 6 through October 8, 2023, curated by Gean Moreno, Director of the Knight Art + Research Center at ICA Miami.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Forrester, Denzil, 1956-; Painting, British; Painting, British; Painters; Painters;
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Night watch [sound recording] by Johansen, Iris,author.(CARDINAL)343639; Johansen, Roy,author.(CARDINAL)343638; Rodgers, Elisabeth S.,narrator.(CARDINAL)344790;
Read by Elisabeth Rodgers.Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses, combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds her uncovering a deadly truth about the shadowy organization that has given her so much. Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, the researcher who gave her sight. But all is not well with the brilliant surgeon; he's troubled by something he can't discuss with Kendra.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Murder;
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Night watch [sound recording] : a novel / by Johansen, Iris,author.(CARDINAL)343639; Johansen, Roy,author.(CARDINAL)343638; Rodgers, Elisabeth S.,narrator.(CARDINAL)344790;
Read by Elisabeth Rodgers.Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses, combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds her uncovering a deadly truth about the shadowy organization that has given her so much. Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, the researcher who gave her sight. But all is not well with the brilliant surgeon; he's troubled by something he can't discuss with Kendra.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Murder;
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