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Summary: "A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions-and sometimes violent conflict. From political protests to personal struggles with school, body image, and relationships with family and friends, Tohar Sherman-Friedman's life is an inspiring story of conflicting convictions, rebellion, and personal growth. Tohar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-women's prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains the entire third season of the television program "House" in which the controversial Dr. Gregory House and his team diagnose and treat mysterious illnesses. Includes special features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUFriedman, Tova
Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, TOVA FRIFriedman, Tova
Summary: Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Bio FriedmanContents: Yankee Doodle Dandy / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph ; original story by, Robert Buckner ; lyrics and music by, George M. Cohan ; directed by, Michael Curtiz -- This is the Army / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon ; music and lyrics by, Irving Berlin ; produced by, Jack L. Warner and Hal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: In the show's final season, a recently paroled Piper tries to get back on her feet while life in Litchfield, as corrupt as ever, goes on without her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAFreeman, Tor.
Summary: Olive has been told a big secret and she tells someone else until it eventually reaches the person who first talked to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRESummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CODCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CODSummary: A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARMSummary: A portrait of one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century, and the inventor of an art form, the mobile. Shows Calder at work in his studio, includes archival films and photographs, and features interviews with contemporaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALESummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRASummary: Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fianc w̌alk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and marries Lila after only 6 weeks. He almost immediately discovers that his new bride is a nightmare with more baggage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HEAIzgil, Tahir Hamut
Summary: "A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IZGIL, TAHIR HAMUT IZGSummary: After the Infinity War, Wanda Maximoff and Vision are two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives, who begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: After nearly four decades together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs while Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOV
Summary: Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fianc©♭ walk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and marries Lila after only 6 weeks. He almost immediately discovers that his new bride is a nightmare with more baggage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Heartbreak 2008Treetop Flyers (Musical group)
Contents: You, darling you -- Sleepless nights -- Lady luck -- It's a shame -- Dance through the night -- St. Andrw's Cross -- Falling back-- Fairytales & Lullabies -- 31 years -- Never been as hard -- Wild winds
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Loose Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TRESummary: Chronicles the rise and fall of Tower Records, from the opening of its flagship store in Sacramento, California in 1960, to its evolution into an international retail chain and bankruptsy in 2006. Owner Russ Solomon and various store employees discuss Tower's unique approach to selling recorded music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALLSummary: A co-production of American Masters and Florentine Films/Sherman Pictures, 'Alexander Calder' is the definitive portrait of the inventor of the mobile. This acclaimed film shows Calder at work in his studio, and features never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, seen as Calder meant them to be viewed, in dynamic motion. Interviewees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2014