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Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 385 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Dani O'Rourke mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. The film captures Hefner's fierce battles with the government, the religious right, and outspoken feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who's who of 20th century American pop culture present an entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surround him.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 508 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Description
The extraordinary life of J.M.W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In her new book, Sue Black builds on the first [All That Remains], taking us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones, which she calls "the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it." Her narrative follows the skeleton from the top of the skull to the small bones in the foot. Each step of the journey includes an explanation of the biology--how the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Description
Follows the life of Ida Tarbell, the nineteenth-century author/journalist whose articles on the corrupt practices of John D. Rockeller and Standard Oil Company resulted in legislation against trusts.
77) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A housefire leads to the discovery of not just the bodies of the homeowners, but also a third, unidentified corpse. The search for the man's identity will lead Detective Gil Montoya not too far from Santa Fe to one of its notorious but rarely discussed neighbors, the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A DNA test reveals that the unknown victim is a native of Northern New Mexico, but Montoya has reason to believe that his ties to the infamous nuclear...
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Description
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families...
Author
Publisher
Amistad35, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl - in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"--
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