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Three rings : a tale of exile, narrative, and fate

by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
'library book', Erich Auerbach, Francois De Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, W.G. Sebald, Homer, epic poetry, literary analysis, classical influences, U.S. critics, biographies, European literature — 8 more, Lycée Francais, Education of Young Girls, The Temple, Swann's Way, Les adventures de Telemaque, Page-Barbour Lectures, Odyssey of Homer, ring composition
Series
The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia (2019)
Status
Available
Call number
809/.933552

The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

by Sebastian Smee
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
'library book', rivalry, artists, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon 1909-1992, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock — 18 more, Willem de Kooning, Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Lee Krasner, homosexuality, London, modernism, New York City, Parisrealis, Salon de Paris, Sebastian Smee, personlity and art, North Bellmore Library read, friendships, betrayals, breakthroughs, biographies, group biography
Status
Available
Call number
700.92/2

Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream

by Nabeel Abraham Editor
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
'library book', Arab immigrants, religion culture, Detroit, Arab Americans, Michigan, social conditions, ethnic identity, ethnic relations, biographies, Nabeel Abraham — 13 more, Andrew Shyrock, demographic portrait, Iraqi Chaldeans, Egyptian Copts, Dearborn MI, Muslim life, Muslim life in Detroit, Iraqi refugees, Palestinians, Detroit Arab art, kinship, community, Great Lakes Books
Status
Available
Call number
305.8927077434

The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East

by Sandy Tolan
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
'library book', Palestinians, Israelis, Arab-Israeli conflict, biographies, homeland question, interpersonal relationships, Yasser Arafat, Dalia Eshkenazi, Egypt, Bulgari — 9 more, israel, Bashir Khairi, Lebanon, Palestine, Yitzhak Rabin, al-Ramla (Palestine), Ramla (Israel), West Bank, Zionism
Status
Available
Call number
956.9405092/2B

The Martians of science : five physicists who changed the twentieth century

by István Hargittai
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
'library book', science, biographies, physicists, Hungarians, history, 20th Century, 'Martians', Theodore Von Kárman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Paul Wigner — 6 more, John Von Neumann, Edward Teller, István Hargittai, nonfiction, Budapest background, Jewish
Status
Available
Call number
530.092/2

The Baptists

by William H. Brackney
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Baptists, religion, biographies, United States, denominations, bible, missions
Series
Denominations in America (2)
Status
Available
Call number
286

Who's who in religion. 1992-1993

Paper Book, 1992
Tags
religion, United States, biographies, Who's Who, reference, clergy, church officials, religious educators, lay leaders, 1992-1993. biographical sketches
Status
Available
Call number
200.922

Encyclopedia of North American railroads

by William D. Middleton
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
'library book', railroads, refeence, North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, exhaustive, encyclopedia, anthology — 6 more, technology, operating practice, history, alphabetical, biographies, glossary
Status
Available
Call number
385.097/03

The Orthodox Church

by Thomas E. FitzGerald
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
'library book', Eastern Orthodoxy, United States, denominations, Christianity, biographies, leaders, Orthodox Church, dictionary, Eastern Orthodox Church
Series
Denominations in America (7)
Status
Available
Call number
281.9/73

The Presbyterians

by Randall Herbert Balmer
Paper Book, 1993
Tags
Presbyterians, Christianity, Presbyterian church, history, United States, dictionary, leaders, biographies, presbyterianism, 19th century, 20th century
Series
Denominations in America (5)
Status
Available
Call number
285/.1

Who's Who in Religion, 1992-93

by Marquis Who's Who
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
religion, biographies, clerics, theologians, dates, reference, Who's Who
Status
Available
Call number
200.922

The Episcopalians

by David Hein
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
'library book', Episcopal Church, Episcopalians, Anglicanism, Episcopal, history, United States, biographies, leaders, religion
Series
Denominations in America (11)
Status
Available
Call number
283/.73

Instant Lives

by Edward Gorey
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Edward Gorey, drawings, satire, sketches, humor, biographies, parody
Status
Available
Call number
813.5

Who's Who of Religions (Penguin Reference Books)

by John R. Hinnells
Paperback, 1996
Tags
dictionary, interfaith, religion, biographies
Status
Available
Call number
200.922

Lives of the Saints: Daily Readings

by Augustine Kalberer
Paperback, 1983
Tags
Catholic, saints, biographies, monthly
Status
Available
Call number
282.092

Mathematical people : profiles and interviews

by Gerald L. Alexanderson
Paperback, 1985
Tags
mathematics, biographies, profiles, interviews, anthology
Status
Available
Call number
510.92

Michigan Manual 1977-1978

by Dept. of Management and Budget
1978
Tags
Michigan, state government, data, information, biographies, ULTB, 1977, 1977-78
Status
Available

Great Catholics

by Claude C. H. Williamson
Book, 1963
Tags
Catholic, biographies, saints, inspiration
Status
Available
Call number
282/.092/2 B

Saint of the Day, July-December

by Leonard Foley
Paperback, 1975
Tags
saints, biographies, New Missal, Catholic
Series
Saint of the Day (Volume 2)
Status
Available
Call number
282.09

Webster's biographical dictionary;: A dictionary of names of noteworthy persons with pronunciations and concise biograph

Paper Book, 1971
Tags
dictionary, biographies, names
Status
Available
Call number
920.02

Alchemists through the ages; lives of the famous alchemistical philosophers from the year 850 to the close of the 18th c

by Arthur Edward Waite
Book, 1970
Tags
alchemy, biographies, occult, alchemists, philosophers, history
Status
Available
Call number
540.1

Encyclopedia of the great composers and their music

by Milton Cross
Book, 1953
Tags
music, classical, composers, biographies, classical music, reference, non-fiction, encyclopedia
Status
Available
Call number
780/.92/2 22

The Hymnal 1940 Companion, Third Revised Edition

by Joint Commission on the Revision of Hymnal the Protestant
Paperback, 1951
Tags
Episcopal church, biographies, texts, tunes, music, hymnal
Status
Available
Call number
783.9
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