Aral, Sinan

Summary: "Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020

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Sisman, Adam.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOSWELL, JAMES SIS

Sisman, Adam

Summary: "In this definitive biography Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carré, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight. Of course, the pseudonym John le Carré has helped to keep the public at a distance. Sisman probes Cornwell's unusual upbringing, abandoned by his mother at the age of only five and raised by his con man...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000

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Sisman, Adam

Summary: "One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 SIS

Sisman, Adam

Summary: Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Sisman, Adam.

Summary: Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from their initial encounter as young men in 1795, to their creation of "Lyrical Ballads," to their role in initiating England's Romantic Movement.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.709 SIS

Summary: The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CEN

Summary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Glass, Joe

Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GLA

Awad, Amal

Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWA

Summary: The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made. A joyful mash up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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Summary: Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001

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Davis, Marc

Summary: Come and join 6-year-old Nylah’s journey of discovering her superpowers! The life of a young bunny rabbit can be tough sometimes, especially for one who just wants to fit in. Nylah doesn’t always like what she sees in the mirror. Everyone is different, and, at first, Nylah doesn’t realize that’s what makes her so special. When Nylah faces challenges in some exciting situations, she discovers...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marc Davis 0000

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Satan and Adam (Musical group)

Contents: Intro -- Mother Mojo -- Seventh Avenue -- Ain't nobody better than nobody -- Heartbreak -- Watermelon man -- Thunky fing -- Silly little things -- Freedom for my people -- Crawdad hole -- Mr. Cantrell -- Cry to me.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish Records 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SAT

Summary: The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAU RATED PG-13

Summary: Joe O'Loughlin is a successful psychologist with a loving family, but a recent medical diagnosis has thrown his life off balance. When the police ask him to assist in the case of a murdered young woman, ghosts from his past begin to resurface.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Summary: The Punisher walks through the same world we all know, a world darkened by war, by crime, by cruelty, and by injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees all around him. He only has his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his ironclad determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains, including those who killed his family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004

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Summary: On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOL
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GOL

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Summary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAM

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Louis, Rick

Summary: "A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOU