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Summary: "Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, moodifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerous and normie friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANDemen
Contents: Niorum -- Morgon -- Korridorer -- Illdrop -- Mea -- Ambur -- Flor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEMKeen, Helen
Summary: "Award-winning comedian and popular-science writer Helen Keen uncovers the astounding science behind the mystical, blood-soaked world of Game of Thrones, answering questions like: Is it possible to crush a person's head with your bare hands? What really happens when royal families interbreed? Does Cersei have Borderline Personality Disorder? What curious medical disorder does Hodor suffer from?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 KEEKeret, Etgar
Summary: Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERKerin, Liz
Summary: Haunted by her mother's blood-thirsty past, Mia hunts the man who sparked it, infiltrating a secret network of fugitive monsters and finding herself snared in a web of unsettling truths, in the sequel to Night's Edge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KERKeret, Etgar
Summary: "A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Levis born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERET, ETGAR KERKerin, Liz
Summary: "I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy's hunger - the one only blood can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERSummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Getten, Kereen
Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GETKerpen, Dave.
Summary: Lays out 11 strategies for organizations of all sizes to spur growth, profits, and overall success. This book helps any leader at a smaller mid-sized company increase profits and spur growth by applying the 11 principles of business likeability, such as: listening, authenticity, transparency, adaptability, simplicity, and gratefulness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.812 KERShadmi, Koren
Summary: "An examination of some of New York rock'n'roll's most iconic figures--The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol--and the relationship that distorted their lives and changed pop culture. Born from the iconic NY art and music scene of the late '60s and the brilliant, untamed minds of its founding members Lou Reed and John Cale, The Velvet Underground are now considered rock 'n' roll royalty...but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 SHAZailckas, Koren.
Summary: A twenty-four-year-old survivor of alcoholism recounts her journey from teen experimentation to binge drinking, during which she endured depression, rage, sexual exploitation, and troubled relationships before making the decision to heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAILCKAS, KOREN ZAIKoren, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1980
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KorenShadmi, Koren
Summary: "A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his personal Twilight Zone. We recognize Rod Serling as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Television. Before he became the revered master of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SERZailckas, Koren
Summary: Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors--young children, marriage, money--and she's settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy's failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIShadmi, Koren
Summary: "Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUGOSI, BELA SHAShadmi, Koren.
Summary: "Some people fall in love, get married, and thrive in happy relationships-- and then there are others. From Israeli enfant terrible Koren Shadmi comes a wickedly literate, darkly poetic, beautifully illustrated story collection that exposes with nightmarish clarity the sorrows of love and desire"--Cover p. [4].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHASummary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELKeen, Andrew
Summary: "Since its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the World Wide Web, personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, has ushered in the Digital Revolution, one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internet's deeply negative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KEEKern, Kerry V.
Summary: The book covers in detail the selection, care and training of a Labrador retriever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.752 KERZailckas, Koren.
Summary: Josephine Hurst has her family under control: two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family. When her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAIZailckas, Koren.
Summary: From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R ZailckasZailckas, Koren.
Summary: From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008