Fleischman, Sid
Summary: A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HOUDINI FLEFleischmann, Arthur.
Summary: The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her computer to communicate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 FLEFleischmann, Melanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter Publishers 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 716 FLEFarrar, Sid.
Summary: Presents haiku poetry about nature and the seasons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.6 FARGoldstein, Sid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GOLLuft, Sid
Summary: The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career. Previously unpublished, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUFT, SID LUFFleischman, John.
Summary: Through the case history of Phineas Gage, a 19th century Vermonter who had an iron bar driven through his brain and lived, the book examines what is known of brain function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FLEFleischman, Paul.
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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Summary: In The Studio 54 Effect, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the infamous club, through the crowd to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled up $100 bills. In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most famous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rare Bird Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 FLEFleischman, Paul
Summary: Profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language, from a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works to people who studied word origins and variations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: A summary of today's environmental challenges also counsels teens on how to decode conflicting information, explaining the role of vested interests while identifying the sources behind different opinions, helping teens make informed choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 FLEFleischman, Paul
Summary: "In this companion to Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis turn to the universal story of creation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Company 2016
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Summary: "Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on growing up with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 FLEFleshman, Lauren
Summary: "Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes. Lauren Fleshman has grown up in the world of running: one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro, she was a major face of women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.91 LEVLei, Sida
Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Presents a personal account of the author's life inspired by Korean mythology and set against a backdrop of the nation's turbulent history, tracing five generations of her family while sharing her views on such topics as Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, and Cold War-era pogroms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9 LEESiu, Kaitlyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERRid, Thomas
Summary: "This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016