Gur, Janna.

Summary: The author of the acclaimed The Book of New Israeli Food returns with a cookbook devoted to the culinary masterpieces of Jewish grandmothers from Minsk to Marrakesh: recipes that have traveled across continents and cultural borders and are now brought to life for a new generation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2014

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Yadin, Yigael

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1966

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Summary: "Emmy Award-winner John Scagliotti, producer of the landmark films "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", guides us in a wondrous tour of erotic history, poetry and visual art in this point-of-view documentary on same-sex desire from ancient times to Victorian crimes. He explores how the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the growth of LGBT political power in the 1990s cleared the path for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: A vivid look at America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine. Centered through editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, as well as an impressive array of passionate writers, the film is a journey into the soul of American Journalism. With unfettered access and unfiltered honesty, it captures the day-to-day pressures and challenges of publishing a weekly magazine, as well as illuminating how the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Nadim

Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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Ladin, Joy

Contents: Introduction: shipwrecked with God -- The genesis of gender -- Trans experience in the Torah -- Close encounters with an incomprehensible God -- Reading between the binaries -- Knowing the soul of the stranger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Brandeis University Press 2019

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Roden, Cesar

Summary: Meet the hottest ices in town: 50 artisanal ice pops, lovingly made with fresh fruit and bursting with spices, herbs, coffee, chocolate, and nuts! Along with their unique recipes, authors Nadia and Cesar Roden—an aunt-and-nephew team—give fun techniques for working with molds, choosing sticks, creating stripes and swirls, suspending ingredients, and adding decorations. The lusciously lickable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Epicurem 2015

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Radin, Stacey.

Summary: An empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate, and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the middle school years. After years of research as a psychologist and consultant for women struggling in the professional world, Stacey Radin made a groundbreaking realization: it all begins in middle school. Women who become successful leaders learn how to do so in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Book 2014

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Summary: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.

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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2008

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Steinsaltz, Adin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999

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Bain, Iain.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1994

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Dobkin, Adin

Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021

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Radin, Paul

Summary: "Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, Maori, Banda, the Buin of Melanesia, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Zuni, and Ewe. Radin examines the conditioning of thought and religion practiced among the members of each society and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NYRB Classics 2017

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Bin Laden, Najwa.

Summary: Mother and son give us an extraordinary view of the private life of a man both loved feared by his family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009

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DALIN, CHENG.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984

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Gerhardsen, Carin

Summary: "January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change their lives forever when, in the midst of a brief period, a deadly accident and two separate crimes leave victims in their wake. Four years later a single...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet, an imprint of Penzler Publisher 2021

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Gill, Nikita

Summary: "From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger. Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words. Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2022

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Hair, Jaden.

Summary: Collects authentic, easy-to-prepare recipes focusing on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai cuisine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2009

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Hardin, David

Contents: The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2010

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Nelson, Kadir.

Summary: Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2008

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Packer, Sarit

Summary: Offers a selection of accessible Middle Eastern recipes from the restaurateurs, including spreads and dips, salads, one-pan dishes, soups, Persian entrées, tagines of North Africa, sofritos of Jerusalem, and stews of Iran.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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Palin, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997

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