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2) Emma
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Emma Woodhouse has successfully played matchmaker for her friend, and discovers that she has a taste for setting up romances for her friends. She gets to work meddling in her friends affair, convincing them to call off imminent engagements and relationships in favor of ones she creates. The matchmaking quickly gets out of Emmas hands, and her actions and instructions begin harming the people she cares about. Though she means well, her interference...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance.
"Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When spoiled rich girl Sasha Li blows through half of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
Author
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from the author on his process and inspiration.
10) Ex Libris
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author shares her enthusiasm for more than 100 books: novels and memoirs by some of today's most gifted writers; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works that illuminate our social and political landscape. -- Adapted from back cover.
"From "the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world" (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn't want you to miss--beautifully...
11) The best of me
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the center of Unrestricted Access is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs. Other stories-each with an introduction by James Rollins-are just as compelling, offering broader insight into this acclaimed master's fictional universes, including: "The Pit": a young dog is kidnapped and brutalized into becoming the bloody champion of a dog-fighting ring. But can this tortured monster find redemption and a path back to the boy who first raised...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Educational version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Exposes the threats to the environment and health posed by pollution created by plastics, demonstrating how large quantities of waste plastic leaches into the drinking water supply. Examines the influence of the oil and gas industries as a source of the problem. Explores the limitations of plastics recycling. Proposes "zero waste" programs and the creation of bio-based, degradable materials as a solution.
Author
Publisher
PenFire Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 133 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Black Girl Shattered, the third book by spoken word artist Sheri Purpose Hall, effortlessly weaves her spirituality, Black consciousness, and femininity into a tapestry of fully poetic words that are part memoir, part Black Studies thesis, part feminist manifesto, and part sacred text. By exploring the root causes of misfortunes that have been engineered to break the spirit of every woman-and revealing a path that leads to the beauty of mending--she...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three women disappear: When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other.
Come and get us: Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must...
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 234 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Mama, Papa, Sister, and Brother as they head out on vacation for some family fun. First, the family arrives at a mountain cabin. Although Papa promises the best vacation ever, things at the cabin don't go according to plan! Will the cubs be able to remain positive and have fun? Then, the family heads to an amusement park! Brother boasts to his friends that he can ride the legendary thunderbolt roller coaster fearlessly. Will his nerves take over...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Even if you have an agent, you're still responsible for some aspects of marketing. Mr. Bell introduces you to the most important marketing tools. Get tips on selecting a marketable title, creating taglines, finding customers, using social media, building a website, using emails and newsletters, and knowing which self-publishing tools are worth the investment.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
DVD edition
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The yakuza make their move with a new drug that nullifies Quirks, and a little girl is being experimented on to create it! Luckily, she runs into Deku and Mirio while they₂re out on patrol, launching them on a dangerous rescue mission with the pros.
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