Oppenheimer, Mark
Summary: "Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multi-generational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshiping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 OPPOppenheimer, Jerry.
Summary: An unauthorized family portrait documents the private lives of the Johnson empire, discussing their high-profile affairs, their struggles with addiction and mental illness, and the obsessions of a dynasty ruler who abandoned his family in favor of his ideals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OPPBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Summary: Argues that all modern non-Africans can be traced back to a single exodus from Africa, when one migrant group of a few hundred people were forced from their homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, more than 80,000 years ago, and today all non-Africans can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from this group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.9 OPPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Oppenheimer, Betty
Summary: This collection contains step-by-step, illustrated instructions for thirty patterns including a laundry bag, apron, tool roll, bucket caddy, hammock, and so much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.2 OPPOppenheimer, Clive
Summary: "Volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer offers here a seemingly impossible tour, showing readers places difficult to access, even before one considers climbing a volcano. Oppenheimer worked closely with North Korean researchers in a scientific mission to study Mount Paektu, a volcano name sung in national anthems on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. He ventured through Chad to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 OPPBane, Jenn
Summary: "With eight billion people in the world, why is it so hard to meet and make new friends? Making friends as an adult is not easy. Keeping friends isn't easy, either. There are legitimate obstacles in our way: we're busy, we're anxious, and too often, we'refar away. Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano, hosts of the feel-good podcast Friendshipping, know this better than anyone, and they've distilled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2021
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Summary: "The unlikely true story of a six-year friendship between a wild, oddly gentle black wolf and the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.86 JANWenner, Jann
Summary: "Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WENNER, JANN S. WENDean, Andrea Oppenheimer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2002
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Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.784 JANOppenheim, Joanne.
Summary: While singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in the bathtub, a boy becomes the skipper of several imaginary vessels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers 1993
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Summary: Altoona Baboona travels the world in her hot air balloon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HARCOURT BRACE 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.24 GILHarris, Jana
Summary: In Horses Never Lie about Love, Harris Lyrically recounts how this wounded, implacable beast nevertheless held a magical influence over the other horses of the ranch, and how she eased into the role of mother after having a foal. In time she became the heart of the ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 HSRJanes, Patricia
Summary: "Introduces the reader to tigers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3757 COMRiess, Jana.
Summary: What Would Buffy Do? explores the fascinating spiritual, religious, and mythological ideas of television's hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer--from apocalypse and sacrifice to self-reliance, redemption, and the need for humor when fighting our spiritual battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Players Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.027 JANJans, Nick
Summary: "No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014