Sacks, Rebecca
Summary: A college student in illegal territory, a journalist covering regional violence, a new father, and a teen soldier struggle to survive in the contemporary West Bank against a backdrop of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SACSummary: A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, Time Of Favor raises important questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTSummary: Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVErickson, John R.
Summary: #1: While investigating a murder on the ranch, Hank finds himself the number one suspect. #2: Hank conducts defensive maneuvers against an attacking silver monster bird.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD ERIRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSAbulhawa, Susan
Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUSummary: "This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN ONERothman-Zecher, Moriel
Summary: It began when Jonathan returned to Israel after being raised and educated in Pennsylvania. He will soon be drafted as a soldier, but he is conflicted. With an intense drive to know more about the plight of the displaced and occupied Palestinians, he encounters Laith and Nimreen-- twin daughter and son of his mother's friend. The three become inseparable: wandering the streets on weekends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: "With the Middle East in turmoil, Israel's pre-eminent ally is thrust into an impending war-- America is now the target as the battle for Jerusalem begins."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JeLand, Jon.
Summary: A Palestinian police inspector and an Israeli policewoman join forces to hunt for a serial killer in Jericho. The inspector is Bayan Kalam, a street-smart former Detroit detective while she is trigger-happy Danielle Barnea. Their investigation, which leads to romance, is played out against the background of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSGreanias, Thomas.
Summary: After foiling a plot to burn down the Dome of the Rock, Israeli counterterrorism agent Sam Deker is captured and tortured into unconsciousness. His troubles really begin, however, when he wakes up during the ancient siege of Jericho.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREThomas, M. J.
Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THOHammad, Isabella
Summary: Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to study medicine in France, and falls in love. When Midhat returns to Nablus to find it under British rule, and the entire region erupting with nationalist fervor, he must find a way to cope with his conflicting loyalties and the expectations of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMElliott, Rebecca
Summary: A famous author is coming to visit and Eva and her classmates are assigned to write a story--but Eva Wingdale is totally distracted because her pet bat, Baxter, has gone missing, and she suspects that the sneaky squirrels have something to do with her missing pet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE ELL Book 6Maddox, Jake
Summary: Once an inseparable trio, whether in their little band or on the football field, Justin, Tony, and Miles have drifted apart in middle school (Justin to band and his old friends to sports); now, after a summer of jamming, Justin decides to try out the football team with his old friends--but he finds little encouragement from them, and he misses the new friends he made in the school band.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADBrown, Dee Alexander.
Summary: During the Civil War, a young man battles Indians, bandits and deserters as he escorts two camels, loaded with war loot across Kansas and Missouri. On the way he meets a boy who turns out to be a girl and falls in love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBarrows, Annie
Summary: When classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Barrows 2018Awdry, W
Summary: Thomas helps the Earl restore Ulfstead Castle and makes friends with an old engine named Stephen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE THORosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSwartz, Elly
Summary: Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade--until one summer when everything changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SWAGuin, Jerry
Summary: "Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUIClay, James
Summary: "Seven years ago Skeet Jones rescued thirteen-year-old Angela. Now a famous singer known as the Songbird of the West and going by the name of Carrie Whiting, she agrees to sing at his new saloon in Dry Creek to repay the debt. When threats arise, Detective Rance Dehner is determined to keep her safe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018