Weider, Shoshana
Summary: Describes the Apollo spacecraft missions to the Moon, detailing each mission's voyage, the astronauts of the Apollo program, and what it takes to be an astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WEILepon, Shoshana
Summary: Colorful illustrations and rhyming text bring the complete Passover story to life, from the time when the Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt, to the birth of Moses, to the Ten Plagues and the Exodus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Big Books Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.4 LEPSilberman, Shoshana
Summary: "A colorful board book Haggadah for the youngest seder-goer highlighting the main parts of the seder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SILZuboff, Shoshana
Summary: "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ZUBSummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOLeider, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 LEIReider, Rebecca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.072 REIWider, Susan
Summary: "A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SALLeider, Richard
Summary: "Our later years need not be a time of loss. This book helps readers embrace the positive possibilities of aging and provides guidance on doing so purposefully, with courage, compassion, and curiosity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 LEIHeiden, Eric.
Summary: A five-time Olympic gold medalist and a U.S. Olympic team physician present a fitness program based on a philosophy of applying exercise as a prescription medication, in a guide that discusses key principles in fitness and weight loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Living 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 HEIReader, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Key Porter Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5784 REAWarraich, Haider
Summary: "There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland's classic How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 WARWeigel, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 WEISummary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEM
Ai, Weiwei
Summary: "In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei-one of the world's most famous artists and activists-tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as "the most important artist working today" by the Financial Times and as "an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AI, WEIWEI AICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AI AIBender, Lionel.
Contents: Polar bears -- Home -- Food -- Hunting -- Daily life -- Senses -- Weapons -- Skin and fur -- Family life -- Growing up -- Becoming an adult -- In danger -- Polar bear care -- Quiz -- New words -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chrysalis Education 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.781 BENBender, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.4 BENFedder, Margaret
Summary: “In Margaret Fedder’s Angel Rides a Bike, the poems hold a mysterious tension between tenderness and ferocity, spareness and a furtive lushness. Despite their relative brevity, Fedder’s poems build a palpable world. There are implications of story, of Catholicism, of family, of place, but the common denominator, and overarching force, is the voice itself—attentive to beauty and to strangeness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Writers Cooperative Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 FEDREEDER, ROBERTA
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Publisher / Publication Date: ZEPHZ 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 AKHReiner, Carl
Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 REIRushing, Felder
Summary: Presents advice on low-maintenance gardening, with tips for easy landscaping, short-cut composting, container gardening, and reliable plant combinations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2011
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Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STAWelker, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antique Acres Press 1985
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Summary: Focuses on the author's years as a journalist in Russia and personal stories by everyday people to examine the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries, offering insight into apparent paradoxes in Russian culture, policies, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014