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Bausum, Ann. Berman, Geoffrey Crenshaw, Ellen T. Palmer, Ada Quindlen, Anna Zoboi, Ibi AanuSummary: The gritty reality of life in the New York City 15th Precinct as the police detectives go about their work with grim determination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NYPBerman, Geoffrey
Summary: "The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department's attempts to protect Trump's friends and punish his enemies"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERMAN, GEOFFREY BERSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELBausum, Ann.
Summary: Ann Bausum's riveting exploration of the Stonewall riots and the national Gay Rights movement that followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 307 BAUSummary: A vampire film about the nature of addiction and original sin. A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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Summary: Nora Nolan always felt she lived a ideal life. But one day tensions in her tight-knit neighborhood--and her seemingly happy marriage--are exposed by an unexpected act of violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUISummary: Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROASummary: In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia, and child abuse are dealt with in New York City by a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Takes on sexual crimes of a more sinister and dynamic nature than ever before, including those involving runaway children, an American sex trade operation, and serial rapists. They also grapple with deeply personal matters, as Stabler helps his troubled son and Benson finds herself the prime suspect in a violent case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWCrenshaw, Ellen T.
Summary: When her friends from the Baby-sitters Club come for a visit in NYC, Stacey realizes they feel out of place in the big city and must find a way to keep the weekend from becoming a complete disaster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quindlen 2018Palmer, Ada
Summary: It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALSummary: Re-enter the gritty world of New York's complex justice system, with all 19 gripping episodes from the riveting ninth year. Two dedicated cops are loyal to each other and to their job of investigating sexually based crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler are joined by detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola, and ADA Alex Cabot. This unit deals with the crimes that are painful, emotional, and disturbing. These detectives, who work in a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit, work the sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow the dedicated officers as they work with New York City's most heinous criminals, including abusive foster parents, neglectful doctors, vicious smugglers, and sadistic kidnappers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: The job of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit is to investigate especially heinous sex-related crimes. SVU also noses around the detectives' private lives, where professional detachment is the modus operandi. Knowing that Det. Olivia Benson was conceived during a rape and that her partner, Det. Elliot Stabler, is a fiercely protective dad enhances our understanding of how they react to sexual...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: Part of the longest-running brand on television. A complex drama about New York's investigative and legal team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: "Contains all 24 gripping episodes from the eleventh season in which the officers track down the most deviant of criminals, including dangerous religious fanatics, serial rapists, and child predators. They also grapple with deeply personal matters, as Stabler helps his troubled son and Benson finds herself the prime suspect in a violent case"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: The gripping fourteenth year of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; begins with a scandal that erupts at the heart of the squad, and the resulting investigation unearths past secrets. After the case surrounding Captain Cragen is closed, the workload gets more explosive as a hasty new assistant DA comes onto the scene. Challenging mysteries involve a sniper that targets cops, escort services in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia, and child abuse are dealt with in New York City by a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBSummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010