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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Open Book and Sell It Like Serhant, a heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the star of Netflix₂s hit reality show Selling Sunset.
105642) Agent Sonya
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
"Autism affects four times as many boys as it does girls. For their fathers, expectations and hopes are drastically changed--as NFL star Rodney Peete's were when his son R.J. was diagnosed at the age of three. After a period of anger and denial, an all-too-common reaction among fathers, Rodney joined his wife, Holly, in her efforts to help their son. With determination, love, and understanding, the family worked with R.J. to help him once again engage...
105647) Devotion
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Traces the inspirational story of famous Navy aviator duo Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown, recounting how they defied convention to serve their country, overcame racial barriers, and protected one another on a daring Korean War Mission.
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
As brash and gritty as the 70's post-punk music it celebrates, go in-depth to look at the brief but vital trajectory of a band that died with its troubled frontman, Ian Curtis, only to be reborn as the equally influential New Order. Features interviews with all surviving band members and explores the Manchester origins of this revolutionary act, their partnership with Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, and collaboration with legendary producer Martin...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], ℗2011
Language
English
Description
Traces the colorful, turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.
105654) The best mind since Einstein
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A profile of Richard Feynman, atomic bomb pioneer and Nobel prize-winning physicist who helped solve the mystery of the space shuttle Challenger explosion.
105655) St. Augustine's Confessions
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the classic work Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Includes Roman history and Christian controversries at the time and background for understanding the book. Also discusses its ongoing usefulness and how it may serve as a guide despite the obvious diffrence between Augustine's world and ours.
105658) Ella: my first Ella Fitzgerald
Author
Series
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about Ella Fitzgerald, from her youth mired in tragedy to her rise to stardom as one of the top jazz singers of all time.
105660) The Who: the kids are alright
Publisher
Universal Music Group International
Pub. Date
c2009, c1979
Language
English
Description
A dazzling visual diary of legendary performances, THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT chronicles the development of the Who from angry young mod upstarts to worldwide arena rock icons. Director Jeff Stein (who was just 21 at the time) was given unlimited access to archives of the Who, occasionally butting heads with famously strong-willed guitarist/songwriter Pete Townsend over the direction of the film. It begins with the band's famed guitar-smashing, 1967 American...