Halper, Jeff
Summary: "Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' - whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanistan, or the subliminal war of policing and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PlutoPress 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 HALSummary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: College freshman Michaela suffers a breakdown that looks less like her diagnosed condition of epilepsy than a form of demonic possession. Seeking a priest's aid, Michaela enters a very personal hell while her family watches in horror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REQCarper, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 CARCarper, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.8 CARCarper, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 CARCarper, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 613 CARGalper, Hal.
Summary: In his fifth decade as a major jazz artist, Hal Galper continues the innovation that has made him one of the most surprising and satisfying pianists alive. His 21st century series of trio albums for Origin incorporates his development of 'Rubato' playing as a means of melding melodic lyricism with the rhythmic excitement and 'sound of surprise' of bebop. The 5th recording in that series, O's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GALGalper, Hal.
Contents: Israel -- Kiwi -- Cubist -- Artist -- Scene west -- Scufflin' -- Goodnite, sweetheart, goodnite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Origin 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GALWalker, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Court 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WALSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELHolder, Jean M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3716 NOVWalter, Jess
Summary: Presents a collection of stories originally published in magazines and anthologies, including "Thief," in which an aluminum worker turns unlikely detective to determine which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalter, Jess
Summary: We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalter, Jess
Summary: The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALWalter, Jess
Summary: Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalter, Jess.
Summary: The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. —Richard Russo A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Walter, Jess
Summary: Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWalter, Jess
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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Summary: Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, deteriorating eyesight, and a new job with a shadowy intelligence operation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan 2006
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Summary: Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Walter 2012Walter, Jess
Summary: Enduring a harsh existence as day laborers, orphaned brothers Gig and Rye Dolan are drawn to a feminist activist and a vaudeville singer whose experiences reflect an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALWalter, Jess
Summary: "Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020