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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Douthat arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1998 carrying an idealized vision of Ivy League life. Instead, he found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the religion of success. What Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn: he was immersed in the culture of America's ever-swelling ruling class--a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement,...
2) The last lie
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 18
Formats
Description
Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors - a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife - the couple hosts a dinner party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine - only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped? Alan Gregory and his deputy district attorney wife, Lauren, join...
3) Line of fire
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 19
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
374 p. cm.
Description
In hopes of leaving a long period of upheaval behind him, Alan Gregory refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, but finds a new patient challenging his values.
4) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
Author
Publisher
Jim Gregory
Pub. Date
©2019.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Jim Gregory, a thirty-year veteran of teaching high school history, shares the insights, experiences and the formative influences from his upbringing in rural Arroyo Grande, California and from his time in the classroom. Gregory addresses local and national history, teaching and learning, immigration and war and the richness of a life spent in a place marked by multicultural influences and a rich history. Gregory's mix of humor and passion reveals...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"In 1843, 14-year old Hanson Gregory left his family home in Rockport, Maine and set sail as a cabin boy on the schooner Achorn, looking for high stakes adventure on the high seas. Little did he know that a boat load of hungry sailors, coupled with his knack for creative problem-solving, would yield one of the world's most prized pastries. At long last, here's the hole truth about the invention of the donut!"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual experience of being asked by President George W. Bush "How's your faith?" David's answer was just emerging. Raised by a Catholic mother and a Jewish dad, he...
9) Dead time
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 16
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with both a newly adopted son and a shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then his ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help locating the missing surrogate mother of her soon-to-be-born child, and Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years--with ramifications that are disturbingly current."--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep."--
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 200 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn't exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque...
12) Taking my life back: my story of faith, determination, and surviving the Boston Marathon bombing
Author
Formats
Description
"On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast, protecting her son from certain death. Eighteen surgeries and sixty-five procedures later, her left leg was amputated."--Amazon.com.
13) Blinded
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 12
Publisher
Wheeler
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
557 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
14) The onion field
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xv, 492 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Chronicles the events and aftermath of a fateful confrontation between two criminals and two police officers in a deserted California onion field, which ended in death for one of the officers.
Author
Appears on list
Description
"From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child."--Amazon.com.
17) True confessions
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"As shark attacks continue to rise along the coast of New England, Dr. Greg Skomal, the leading great white shark expert in the country, takes readers on a gripping exploration of these apex predators and the factors in their resurgence"--
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